In 1847, "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Gray" came out in the same year, a family gave birth to three talented female writers, and the literary family that is difficult to copy in the history of British and even world literature has entered the public vision.
▲ Charlotte Brontë "Jane Eyre"
In the literary catalogue of the 19th century, if Jane Austen's writing makes people unexpectedly harvest the human feelings and customs of the south of England. Then the characters of the "Brontë Sisters" are locked in the "north" of England, sparsely desolate wilderness, dilapidated and majestic manors, but the same wasteland fog, but in the three people's pen, a completely different character and fate trajectory.
"I wonder why preachers call this world a desolate wasteland, which seems to me to be like a blooming rose."
—Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre's "sobriety on earth", and her insistence on dignity and stubborn demand for equality, let love fade like a tide, and the individual will appear like a reef. For more than a hundred years, whether it is the Queen of the Victorian era or the readers of the twenty-first century cyberthesis, they will reach a tacit understanding with the writer, that is, the eternal contemplation and pursuit of the brilliance of human nature in addition to a legendary love affair with a sense of gothic.
Zhu Jie x Pu Cunxin
The thirteenth year of the renewal of Jane Eyre
In 2009, the National Centre for the Performing Arts put "Jane Eyre" on the drama stage for the first time, and under the strength of screenwriter Yu Rongjun and director Wang Xiaoying, the poetic text and flexible stage vocabulary with the essence of the original work successfully made the classic come out of the line. In the past thirteen years, the drama "Jane Eyre" has brought touching and beauty to audiences everywhere, and it is not difficult for careful audiences to find that each round of performances is not static. These fine-tuning not only come from the director's timely adjustment and improvement according to the performance effect, but also from the re-excavation and re-polishing of the script lines by each round of actors, so that the drama "Jane Eyre" can "grow with time".
The curtain opens, and the silent piano, the dusty suitcase, Jane Eyre in a long gray dress and the still life-like stage are engraved in the memory of almost every audience. The woman standing outside the door of Thornfield Manor not only touched the engine of fate of everyone in the manor, but also brought the audience back to nineteenth-century Britain.
And this year, in Thornfield House, "old friends" and "new owners" will be in the same frame for the first time, opening Jane Eyre in another way in April.
▲ Zhu Jie as Jane Ai
Zhu Jie
"It's been more than a decade since I first played Jane Eyre in 2010, and the long years of precipitation have also given me a deeper understanding of her. I found out that I had such a deep affection for this play, and when I got to some of the clips, the bits and pieces of 12 years ago came to mind, and I was particularly grateful to be able to go back and portray this role again. Mr. Pu's joining has given me a lot of inspiration and help, his interpretation is very rich, and it also makes my performance more fulfilling. Classics are my guiding light, not only professionally, they also nourish my life, which is very fortunate for the actor. ”
▲ Pu Cunxin as Edward Rochester
Pu Cunxin
"Just as the world's best conductors want to touch the works of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in their artistic careers, it is my ideal to interpret classic works and great roles. Characters like Rochester need to let the audience and the characters know the world and life together through performance. Rochester has changed to the best of human civilization, but he is a man who has been hurt by life, doubtful and even misunderstood. This transformation was given by Jane Eyre, who faced all injustice equally with a humble but upright posture and made her voice heard with an equal friendliness. They are not the love that was natural under the moon before, but the strange arrangement of fate brings two people who cry out for help to each other, and finally on the ruins of the manor, the mutual redemption of the soul is completed. This is the metaphysical poetry of Jane Eyre, whose vast amount of information about the thoughts, emotions, and spiritual worlds goes far beyond the plot itself. ”
"I feel sad to be away from Thornfield because I have had a pleasant and fulfilling life here. I was not discriminated against, I was not excluded. I am able to communicate face-to-face with a unique, noble, generous mind. ”
"I have spent half my life in indescribable pain and the bleak loneliness of boredom, and now I have found true love, I have found you, and you are my sympathizer — the best of my nature — my good angel and savior."
From April 11th to 14th, the classic of the National Centre for the Performing Arts drama "Jane Eyre" was re-opened, and the original creative team joined hands to create it, and Zhu Jie and Pu Cunxin joined hands with the National Centre for the Performing Arts Drama Actors Team and the actors of the National Drama Theatre to present it together.