The famous dramatist Mr. Cao Yu's masterpiece "Sunrise" has been put on the stage countless times, and after more than 60 years, it has not faded for a long time. At the 8th Wuzhen Drama Festival, the stage play "Sunrise" directed by Venus, on the inclined stage, used the form of dance + drama to perform a new "Sunrise" for everyone.
The stage play "Sunrise" directed by Venus adopts the form of dance + drama.
In this drama, Venus is not only the director, but also plays two contrasting roles of Chen Bailu and Cuixi. Even the sloping stage setting in the play is metaphorical, "Everyone's life is oblique, some people go up, some people go down." Each of us is trying to survive and struggle." Venus is showing off her golden sentence skills again.
So, how much Venus does Sunrise really have? And what attitudes does Venus have towards life? Nandu reporters interviewed her at the Wuzhen Grand Theater.
Talking about "Sunrise"
"All very 'Venus', the stage play is a comprehensive expression"
Venus said that the stage play "Sunrise" was very "Venus".
Southern Metropolis Daily: So many scripts, why did you choose to act in "Sunrise"?
Venus: The script for Sunrise is very well written and extremely lifelike. Its span is very large, from Chen Bailu, a social flower of high society, to Cuixi at the bottom, there are expressions. So I think I'm very grateful, grateful that we can stand on the shoulders of giants and have such a good script, which provides us with space for expression. When we reconsider this script with today's aesthetic standards, today's values, we give our creators a lot of room. Moreover, I feel that each creator has to express his own ideas and art.
Nandu: How do you see someone watching "Sunrise" and saying it doesn't look like a drama?
Venus: Drama is called a stage play. Some people put forward after watching the show, as if Teacher Jin's lines were not as good as dramas. I said no problem and I fully accepted. I said that I used the most natural way, even if it was a person with a bit of a Venus accent and a Venusian speed, there was no problem standing on the stage. Stage play is a comprehensive stage expression, from music to choreography to costumes to limbs to lines to scheduling, "Sunrise" is all very "Venus".
Nandu: So what part do you think is the most Venus?
Venus: Aesthetics! How good is the aesthetic of this play, the music is good, the picture is also right, the lighting is good, the actor's costume is also accurate, and it is not deliberately expressing anything. And the most surprising thing is the deconstruction of the character and an attitude towards the whole play. When Mr. Cao Yu wrote the script that year, he attacked the social phenomenon that "damage was not enough to provide more than enough" at that time. This is a very strong attitude, and when this attitude is reconstructed, it also has its social significance in contrast to our current society.
Chen Bailu's little Trojan horse.
Nandu: On stage, what does it mean for the little Trojan horse designed by Chen Bailu's home?
Venus: Chen Bailu has her childish place. She is nostalgic for her childhood, which is her happiest Trojan horse, but this Trojan horse also represents her life swinging, uncertain in her heart, and wanting everything. I want love, and I want a material life, and I can't do it high or low. The devices behind the Trojan horse looked like books, but the books would fly again, much like the last straw in her life that overwhelmed her—the bill, which owed countless debts. Therefore, she is very contradictory, a contradictory.
Nandu: These characters don't see the ending very clearly in the end.
Venus: This drama is not an answer, but a presentation. I think the biggest charm of drama is presented in front of your eyes, and each audience has their own interpretation, which is the biggest charm of drama. You don't tell me the answer, if I'm in the audience, you give me room to choose the answer. So, we don't deal with the death of small things so directly. Chen Bailu's death has also faded away, maybe he is not dead. The last time I went on stage, my back was almost getting old. Maybe Chen Bailu survived in the end, that was another state for her.
Nandu: "Sunrise" was originally a tragedy, but some people said that it saw a cool drama feeling, what do you think?
Venus: The same sentence, there are different emotional expressions. The previous rhythm and the current rhythm are not the same, including the color of the costumes and the expression of the actor's language. This is the change of the times, the perception of a sentence is different, so I think the whole line, you can see its texture from a gray humor, you can also see its texture from a human tragedy. And from the rhythm, the original script has a lot of broken words, all taken away, unnecessary characters are also cut out, I think it is enough to highlight the three-dimensional side of everyone on the stage.
Talk about desire
"As long as people control their desires, their lives will not be bad"
Stills from Sunrise.
Nandu: Many of your golden sentences are regarded as the most reasonable quotes by netizens, if you can give Chen Bailu a few life suggestions, what will you give her?
Venus: I think she can give up something, don't want everything, get nothing. In the face of matter, she is passive, in the face of feelings, she is empty. Therefore, she ended up hanging completely in the air, up and down, left and right, without leaning on either side. This is the saddest thing about Chen Bailu. She anesthetizes herself with a drunken fan day after day, but the reality of the last straw is harsh. If she owes a debt and has to pay it back, she still has to face life.
Nandu: What do you think of several other female characters?
Venus: In comparison, the lowest level of Cuixi may have a particularly difficult life, being a prostitute to support her family and being beaten by her husband, but she is the most real. She knew all too well that she had to earn money to live. She knew she had to leave her child in a brothel or she would freeze to death when she got home. Extremely passive female characters are small things, she is still underage, pushed into this complex society, can not control at all. And Grandma Gu Ba has a choice, but she has everything, that is, there is no happiness. The previous character treatment was to shape Grandma Gu Ba into a very ugly and old old lady, raising a small white face, and this time I found a particularly beautiful actress to show that Grandma Gu Ba is also beautiful, so she can marry into the rich. Her husband is dead, she is not willing to have no love, and she also wants to join forces and throw flattering eyes to Fourth Master Pan. Pan Siye likes Chen Bailu, so in the end there is no way, can only find some emotional compensation in Hu Si, but can never be satisfied.
Nandu: Chen Bailu is deeply trapped in desire, which leads to the tragedy of life. How should modern people view or control their desires?
Venus: Controlling desires. If you have no appetite, no sexual desire and no material desire, what are you doing alive, desire must have, this is the normal release of your hormones. However, people in civilized society are to learn to control their desires, to transform their desires into different ways of communicating them, which is a balance point, if you do not even have this ability to balance, you will be dumped by society, and your life will be chaotic. By what to balance the release? There are too many forms to choose, art, sports, all parties can balance their desires, I think people can control the desire, the day will not be bad, if you are overwhelmed by desire, it will be very miserable.
Talk about yourself
"My charm is diverse 360 degrees"
Nandu: Your creations in recent years have expanded more and more, not only limited to dance.
Venus: I think I can express the dance, and the dramatic characters can expand more through it. I'm curious about life, I don't think of myself as a dance factory, I have to create products every day, and I'm not a dance workshop. I think I'm a stage person, as long as I put me on the stage in different ways, maybe one day I will sing jazz, and one day I sing, maybe ah.
Nandu: Does this distraction not affect your status as a dancer?
Venus: I don't care, there is no status, I never wanted to be a premier dancer in the dance world. I don't have that ambition, I know I'm very charismatic, and that charisma is 360 degrees diverse. So I live a wonderful and unique life, just because I am 360 degrees, not a one-sided, so I always say that I am a theater person, a stage person. On stage, whether it's dancing, talk shows, or I'm acting on a stage play, all sides will express the "Venus" side, and how happy it is to have so many good scripts to provide you with this fulcrum!
Nandu: What kind of expectations will "Venus Show" bring us?
Venus: Starting in 2022 will be a big literary criticism program. Mainly commenting on all film and television dramas, theater literary and artistic works, everyone began to discuss and comment. China lacks comments, good reviews. Maybe in order to make my comments more textured and convincing, I want to act in stage plays, movies I want to act, TV series I also want to act, I have done it later before I know how to speak, you have not acted Why can you comment on others.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei intern Chen Qiannan