Dressed in costume and sitting in the middle of the play. The treasurer Wang Lifa poured tea, and Chang Siye and Qin Zhongyi were at the same table... On April 17, the immersive Beijing opera "Tea House" of the 2022 "Guild Hall with Drama" Jingcai Xicheng Spring Performance Season was staged at Baoguo Temple in Xicheng District. The characters with distinct personalities in Lao She's pen "lived" in front of the audience's eyes.
In the second half of 2021, Beijing will promote the construction of a national cultural center, promote the performance of the literary and art academy troupe into the old site of the guild hall, and play the brand of "the guild hall has a play", so that citizens and tourists can see colorful performance activities in some of the old sites of the guild halls in the east and west cities.
Compared with other versions of "The Tea House", this performance broke the traditional performance form of the opera stage and explored a new form of fusion of scene and opera. The scene is not divided into "performance area" and "viewing area", the audience is no longer passive to watch the performance, but mixed with the actors in the performance scene, as the "customer" of the teahouse, observing everything that happens in this square world, and forming a new interactive relationship with the actors.
The audience can wear costumes to integrate into the performance, choose the elements in the play to understand in depth, and enhance the sense of substitution and experience.
"Put up your arms, straighten up, okay, go!" Putting on a yanal coat, under the guidance of the actors, an audience member experienced the good mood of Matsuji's raising cage bird. Learn to sing, learn to be a body, learn to beijing strings, learn to taste tea, and gather together to feel the customs and customs of old Beijing and taste the new experience of Beijing's culture.
"The sense of engagement is too strong! Kang Liu and Liu Mazi were bargaining at my desk, and Kang Liu still looked at me from time to time, as if he wanted me to say something for him. After the performance, one audience member said.
Compared with the traditional theater, Hokokuji Temple adds a lot to this immersive performance. Founded more than 1,000 years ago, Baoguo Temple was listed by the State Council as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2006. Historically, Baoguo Temple has had the most famous book market, flower market and temple fair in Beijing. This place was once the place where the famous people of the Nancheng Guild Hall and the literati and inkers traveled, and the poetry and flowers were enjoyed, and the Pilu Pavilion was unprecedented, which can be described as "the guild hall in the guild hall".
In recent years, Xicheng District has carried out key rectification of Baoguo Temple and its surrounding hutongs, abolished all illegal open-air stalls and cabinets in the market according to law, banned unlicensed tourists in the surrounding areas, and restored tranquility to the thousand-year-old temple. At the same time, the rational use of Metro Line 7 Guang'anmen Inner Station construction enclosure demolition of the vacant land, the construction of the "city living room" - Guangning Park, through the cultural display space, historical celebrity space and temple atmosphere space "three major cultural spaces" display, to create a "spirit of serving the country" artistic conception, the ancient Baoguo Temple has a new atmosphere.
The relevant person in charge of Xicheng District said that at present, Baoguo Temple is building a modern cultural park with patriotic education in the new era as the core, featuring traditional opera and art program performances, cultural and artistic display experiences, and taking into account the leisure and relaxation of citizens. The park will cooperate with the Beijing Performance Group to introduce traditional folk art performances such as Pear Garden Club, Guole Fu, Cloud Dance Hall, Acrobatic Show, etc.; perform various programs related to traditional culture and have inheritance value; hold various cultural and artistic exhibitions, organize intangible cultural heritage display experiences and cultural and creative displays, so as to maintain the vitality of traditional culture and create a cultural and leisure place that the masses like to hear and often love.