Modern Express News (correspondent Zhang Yan, reporter Song Jingwei) "The indomitable stage pretender, the bitter and immortal Diao Shunzi." "In 2020, a popular drama "Loading Stage" let the audience understand the difficulty of "loading people". Now, "Loading the Stage" is also going to be put on the stage of the drama! The Modern Express reporter learned that the Xi Opera Troupe of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group took the lead in "grabbing" the right to adapt the drama of "Loading Stage" and invited Guo Xiaonan, a famous contemporary Chinese director and artist, to serve as a screenwriter and director. Recently, the expert seminar on tin opera "Loading Stage" was held at the Jurong Grand Theater in Jiangsu Province, and more than 10 experts from the relevant leaders of the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Jiangsu Province and the Jiangsu Performing Arts Group and the literary and art circles attended the large-scale modern tin opera "Loading Stage".
From the novel to film and television to the drama, the "stage bearer" finally stood in the center of the stage
"Loading Stage" is a long novel with realistic themes created by Chen Yan, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, which for the first time shows the sadness, joy, bitterness and bitterness of a group of stage-loading people behind the scenes of the performing arts industry in the form of literary works, which has typical practical significance. Zhou Dongliang, head of the Jiangsu Xi Opera Troupe, revealed that when he learned the news that "Loading Stage" would be put on the stage of the drama, he contacted Chen Yan and Guo Xiaonan for the first time and won the adaptation copyright.
Behind the scenes of the stage is very important for our traditional opera, the original teacher Chen Yan through the subtle life experience and observation, the first attention to the group of stage people, found their existence, for the first time with a solemn and sincere, deep and full attitude to show the hard work and importance of the stage people, passing on the warm and good positive energy. As an opera artist, I like this work very much, and I expressed my creative ideas with director Guo Xiaonan, and the two sides reached a consensus on bringing this excellent work to the stage of tin opera. Zhou Dongliang said.
Guo Xiaonan also expressed his adaptation of "Loading Stage" as a theater director at the seminar. The installation is concrete and imagery. The protagonist Diao Shunzi as the core of a group of stage people they have a kind of vitality and vitality, condensed the modern people's subjective struggle consciousness of life, they use their own complaints and regrets to build other people's beautiful lives, so as to realize their own life value, this positive realism spiritual core is very interesting to me. He said that he is also a director and screenwriter at the same time, and will stage this work from the three perspectives of survival, emotion and spirit, and run through the whole play with this group of "little people" like weeds and tough "ant spirit".
From "Prince" to "Shunzi", Zhou Dongliang challenged Zhang Jiayi
"I believe that the tin opera "Loading the Stage" will become a successful practice of the dramatization of the novel." At the expert seminar, Wang Hong, head of the General Political Drama Troupe, member of the All-Army Art Steering Committee, director of the China Qu Artists Association, and a first-class screenwriter, expressed his empathy, recalling that he had 16 years of experience in "setting up the stage." He specifically mentioned that the script designed several scenes such as Zhong Kui and Lin Chong, "the drama in the play" is a stroke of God, "The appearance of Lin Chong and Zhong Kui on the stage has given this play a contrast between myths and mortals, heroes and ghosts, so that we can see more clearly the spiritual world of Shunzi and feel the nobility and strength of the hearts of ordinary laborers."
Wu Dandan, deputy editor-in-chief of the "Script" magazine of the China Drama Association, specifically mentioned the actor Diao Shunzi, the famous contemporary tin opera performance artist Zhou Dongliang, "As a 'tin opera prince' with considerable stage appeal and artistic expression, Zhou Dongliang's previously shaped talent zhuangyuan is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and this time from the 'prince' to the Shunzi who is closest to the 'land' of life, the test is extremely great." She mentioned that in addition to challenging the depth of Chen Yan's works, Zhou Dongliang also challenged the deeply rooted image of Diao Shunzi played by Zhang Jiayi in the previous TV series version.
Guo Xiaonan said that listening to the suggestions of experts has benefited a lot, "Everyone has helped us to go up the ladder from the aesthetic height of drama, and improved the imagery and spiritual direction of 'loading stage', we are all stage people!" Next, the crew will continue to polish and improve the script, and look forward to the work to meet with the fans as soon as possible and present a new "Loading Stage" to everyone.
( Source: Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Tin Opera Troupe )