▲ Rehearsal photo of the drama "Protagonist" (courtesy of Shaanxi Renyi)
"If literature is a tree, then the drama 'Protagonist' is the furniture created by dedication." On the afternoon of February 19, Pu Cunxin, chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association, said this when he took the stage after the performance and talked to the actors. On the same day, the drama "Protagonist", created by Shaanxi Performing Arts Group And Shaanxi People's Art Theater (hereinafter referred to as "Shaanxi Renyi"), was unveiled in Xi'an. The drama "Protagonist" is adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Chen Yan, which is the key support repertoire of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Stage Art Creation Project Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", and is also the third in the "Mao Award Trilogy" created by Shaanxi Renyi after "White Deer Plain" and "Ordinary World".
The drama "Fire Before Acting", the 2022 national tour has been pre-sold 97 times. On February 25th and 26th, "Protagonist" will be premiered at the Shaanxi Grand Theatre, focusing on the "Empress qinxiang" to recall the life course of Qin'e from a sheep herding baby in the depths of the Qinling Mountains to a generation of Qinlu celebrities, vividly depicting the fiery inheritance of the Qin cavity rooted in the people, revealing and showing a grand picture of the complex world.
In 2021, although affected by the epidemic, Shaanxi's performance market once suffered a "circuit breaker", but the majority of literary and art workers did not stop. In addition to stepping up the creation and exclusion of important works in 2022 during the period of home isolation through cloud rehearsal and cloud discussion, they also presented a large number of outstanding literary and artistic works to the masses during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger.
Wonderful performances make the New Year watching the drama open the new year
Rejoice in the New Year, and watch the drama happily. During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger and the Lantern Festival, the "2022 Spring Festival Qin Cavity Carnival Series Of Activities" of the Xi'an Yi Folk Society made the opera popularity unabated through wonderful performances, which greatly enriched the holiday cultural life of the people of the ancient city.
From February 2 to 21, on the open-air stage of the Yi Folk Society Cultural Block, classic plays such as Qin Cavity's "Three Drops of Blood", "Tears of a Loving Mother", "Flame Colt", "Famen Temple" and "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" were staged one after another. In the square, people sat or stood, cheering and applauding continuously. "Not even relatives!" Since the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, I know that I come every day and look at it! One fan put it this way. Qu Peng, a national first-class actor and director of the performance team of the Yi Folk Society, said: "The Spring Festival has always been the busiest time for literary and art workers, but for our old Shaanxi, with the Qin cavity, the new year flavor is stronger. ”
Similarly, on the evening of February 9, qin cavity "Wang Baojun" was opened at the theater of Shaanxi Provincial Opera Research Institute, and the Shaanxi Provincial Opera Research Institute's "2022 Xi'an Daily Qin Cavity" series of performances was launched. From the ninth day of the first month to the twentieth day of the first month, 12 classic Qin operas starring 6 "plum blossoms" and the majority of Qin opera fans must see every night. Li Juan, winner of the Plum Blossom Award and the actor of Wang Baojun in Qin Xiang's "Wang Baojun", said: "The New Year should sing a big drama. As literary and art workers, we have the responsibility and responsibility to dedicate a cultural feast to the people. ”
In order to make the children's holiday life rich and colorful, Xi'an Children's Art Theater (hereinafter referred to as "Xi'an Children's Art") has launched a "Chinese New Year Drama Carnival" for children and teenagers. Among them, online performances include "We Are Qin Figurines", "Twenty-Four Grandmothers", "Fire Seal" and other plays, with a total of 436,000 views. In addition, offline performances such as the large-scale children's stage show "Nezha", the children's drama "The Little Girl Who Sold Matches", "Three Little Pigs" and "The Mouse Marrying The Girl" continued to be staged and were highly sought after.
During the Spring Festival, the Xincheng Theater has become a good place for many Xi'an citizens to celebrate the Spring Festival. For example, on February 6, many viewers came to watch the suspenseful reasoning drama "Dead Without Proof", most of which were young people. In order to strengthen the audience's sense of participation and experience, the theater also specially set up a Republic of China-style photo area to allow the audience to better integrate into the plot. Ren Xueying, director of the Xi'an Drama Theatre, said that from March 18, the play will depart from Xi'an and tour 34 cities in 14 provinces and regions. In addition, the drama "Lu Yao" will start the third round of national tour in March, "Liu Qing" will start the fifth round of national tour in April, and "Chang'an Second Bowl" will also enter Beijing in June to participate in the Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Original Drama.
Local culture digs deep into new dramas and good dramas one after another
▲ Makeup poster for the dance drama "Door" (Courtesy of Xi'an Song and Dance Theater)
Many people know that there are 108 squares in Tang Chang'an City, but they don't know the subtle stories in this workshop. Doors are like switches for life, flaps that determine the direction of life. These days, the new version of the dance drama "Door" is undergoing final debugging, which will make its first new appearance at the Shaanxi Grand Theatre from March 4 to 6, inviting the audience to warm up the "Tang Dynasty fireworks" with the beauty of dance.
As the opening masterpiece of Xi'an Song and Dance Theatre, the dance drama "Door" runs through the "door", takes the Datang Chang'an as the background, and takes a number of small characters as the entry point, leading the audience to look back at the different Datang stories through dance. "In Xi'an, which has a long history and profound cultural heritage, it is not a small pressure to do a dance drama with Tang Dynasty themes." Yi Jie, the general director of the play, said that the new version of the dance drama "Door" tries to use a minimalist style to show the silent beauty of moisturizing things and the beauty of the first day after the snow.
▲ Rehearsal photo of children's drama "Meet the Sea of Stars" (Courtesy of Xi'an Children's Art)
Similarly, the red-themed children's drama "Meet the Star Sea", which was selected by Xi'an Children's Art Creation and Was selected as a major cultural boutique project in Shaanxi Province in 2021, and the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the Provincial Department of Finance's 2021 annual art creation funding project, has not yet been officially premiered, and has been well-known.
Ouyang Yibing, a national first-class screenwriter and former director of the China Children's Art Theatre, said after watching the rehearsal performance a few years ago that the play is a masterpiece in the field of children's drama in recent years. Li Xionghui, a professor at the Central Academy of Drama and a national first-class screenwriter, said that "Meet the Star Sea" is a new attempt to integrate local musical elements into children's dramas, and highly appreciates Xi'an Children's Art's attitude of daring to excavate the subject matter.
"Looking up at the ocean of stars, tonight thousands of stars, the waves of water hold up the stars, the galaxy is around..." "Meet the Sea of Stars" tells the story of the two-way growth of the two sides in the context of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, five children from North China, Northeast China, Jiangnan and other places and representing the epitome of China's suffering children, in Yan'an and the people's musician Xian Xinghai met and interacted, thus completing the story of the two-way growth of both sides.
"We are currently polishing and improving 'Meet the Star Sea' based on the opinions and suggestions of experts. At the 7th Xi'an International Children's Theatre Exhibition held in May this year, it will be launched to a national audience to present the faith and pursuit of a generation of musicians in the best state. Zhao Juan, assistant general manager of Xi'an Children's Art, said.
Great times call for good works. In 2022, focusing on the main line of welcoming and publicizing and implementing the 20th National Congress of the Party, literary and art workers in Shaanxi Province will normalize the creative practice of "going deep into life and taking root in the people", and do a good job in thematic literary and artistic creation, performances, performances, exhibitions and other work. At present, through the implementation of the Shaanxi New Era Realistic Theme Creation Project, a number of theme works that display regional characteristics and highlight the spirit of the times, such as the opera "Hao JiaQiao" of the Shaanxi Provincial Opera Research Institute, the drama "Spring Train of Spring" of the Xi'an Drama Theatre, the song and dance drama "Shahai Spring and Autumn" of the Yuyang District Literary and Art Work Troupe of Yulin City, and the Shangluo Flower Drum "Ruoshui" of the Shangluo Local Opera Research Institute, are stepping up their creation.
February 24, 2022 China Culture Daily
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Editor-in-charge: Chen Xiaoyue