On October 2nd and 3rd, the original drama "Breathe" landed in Guangzhou Art Season 2021 and ushered in its premiere at the Guangzhou Grand Theatre. At the end of the performance, a line by Zhong Nanshan in the play is sonorous and powerful, "If the human body breathes, there is life; if the soul has breath, there is a soul; the sun and moon have breath, there is light; the times have breath, and there is a future!" It aroused a strong resonance from the audience, and the applause on the scene was thunderous and endless for a long time.
The original drama "Breathe" is jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the GUANGZHOU Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, and the China International Culture Group Co., Ltd., with China Performance Theater Development Co., Ltd. as the chief producer, the Guangzhou Opera House as the producer, and the Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Center. The play is a key exhibition and performance of "100 Years of Glory" - Guangzhou Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, and was included in the list of "National Key Stage Works Creation of Anti-epidemic Themes" by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
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On the spot, the stage charm flows
Unfold the story in time travel
At the beginning of the performance, heavy music sounded, and on a "high platform" behind the stage, the group performance interpreted the panic of all sentient beings when the "epidemic" suddenly came... The music became more and more urgent, and the time on the stage was fixed on January 18, 2020. At this time, the lights on the left front of the stage came on, and on a train, Zhong Nanshan was thinking...
This train plays the role of "beaded jade" in the whole "Breath". In the travel of time and space, Zhong Nanshan's experience for most of his life was presented on the stage.
The time goes back to 1972, when Zhong Nanshan, who worked in Beijing, returned to his home in Guangzhou. His father taught the Zhong family the ethics of being a "real doctor, a pure doctor", and his wife Li Shaofen supported him, "As long as you have ambitions and do what you want to do, I will follow you." ”
Most of Zhong Nanshan's life extended on the stage. At that time, many people did not want to do the "slow branch inflammation" prevention and control team, Zhong Nanshan and colleagues "started from scratch" and developed the Guangzhou Respiratory Disease Research Institute, which was later famous at home and abroad; in 2003, he summed up scientific experience in practice to fight against SARS; in early 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic appeared, and Zhong Nanshan and his team, colleagues, and students are still fighting...
"There is no shortage of experts in this world, there is no shortage of authority, what is missing is a person - a person who is willing to give himself up." "Breathing" records the breath of the times, witnesses the demeanor of the doctor who is not afraid of danger, and pays tribute to the spirit of seeking truth that dares to heal and speak out. At the end of the performance, Zhong Nanshan's lines were sonorous and powerful, "The times have breath, and the future is there!" "The music blessing makes the whole stage flow.
The drama "Breathing" presents a modern condensed stage, twelve pixel lampposts combined with projections to create a sense of speed and flow of time, time flies by, and what remains unchanged is the benevolence of the doctor who is not afraid of danger and dares to speak out. The whole drama is a movable device created by eight pixel light strip boxes, which constitute a multi-level visual space in the continuous movement and change, and present a sense of breathing and depth through the light and shadow effects of multimedia and lighting, so that the audience can face the modern sense and sense of technology of the play.
The theme, "Nanshan Spirit" is touching
Original works celebrate the spirit of the city
The original drama "Breathing" uses artistic methods to unveil the story behind Academician Zhong Nanshan's courage to speak out and take responsibility, and also resonates with the audience. "In the drama "Breathe", I saw that Academician Zhong Nanshan dared to be a pioneer in the country, the demeanor of a doctor who was not afraid of danger, and the spirit of seeking truth that dared to speak out." "Greatness comes from the ordinary. Zhong Nanshan's family has been practicing medicine for three generations, which is the source of family learning, and it also allows me to see their family style background, that is, seeking truth from facts and respecting science. ”
"Guangzhou has 'Nanshan'. Although I knew a lot about Academician Zhong's experience through news reports before, through this drama, I saw more deeply the 'Nanshan Spirit' embodied in him. Audience member Ms. Lin said.
In 2020, with the support of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, the Guangzhou Opera House established a drama production center, which is committed to enhancing literary and artistic originality, promoting literary and artistic innovation, and striving to create more outstanding works worthy of the times.
Zhong Nanshan's body has always embodied the Guangzhou spirit of daring to be the first, seeking truth and being pragmatic. Under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, the Guangzhou Grand Theatre created a realistic drama "Breathe" with academician Zhong Nanshan as the theme, condensing the strength of local literature and art, telling the story of Guangzhou with art, and showing Guangzhou's achievements in the creation of fine literary and artistic works with excellent literary and artistic works.
In the past of fighting SARS and in the current fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Guangzhou has emerged one after another "white soldiers" who are not afraid of life and death and fight bravely, writing a story of fighting against the epidemic with one heart and one mind and can be sung and wept. The original drama "Breathing" not only shows the wind and bones of Academician Zhong Nanshan's specialization in the art industry and is not afraid of danger, but also pays tribute to those "white soldiers" who stand up and charge forward, let people remember this history, and carry forward and inherit the spirit of Guangzhou city that dares to be the first, perseverance, truth-seeking and pragmatic, and brave forward.
The main creator, gathering the top team in China
The group performances are very "exquisite"
The original drama "Breathe" gathers the top domestic creative team, co-written by the famous writer Tang Dong and the national first-class screenwriter and the winner of the Chinese Drama Golden Lion Award Screenwriting Award, Pu Xun, and the national first-class director Fu Yongfan as the director.
In the early days of the creation, Tang Dong highly refined Zhong Nanshan's important life nodes to create the script. After entering the rehearsal stage, Tang Dong and Fu Yongfan worked with the actors to polish the script in detail, "in the creation, the breath is a very specific thing to extract and sublimate into a concept beyond life." The play also specially invited Dr. Wei Donghai, the author of "Still Zhong Nanshan", as a consultant.
The cast of the show's main cast is also very strong. In the play, Zhong Nanshan is played by Bai Wenxian, a national first-class actor and former vice president of the Sichuan People's Art Theater, Jia Jianjian, a national first-class actor and former vice president of the Sichuan People's Art Theater, plays Zhong Shifan, a national first-class actor and artistic director of the Sichuan People's Art Theater Dong Fan plays Li Shaofen, and excellent actors from the Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Center, such as Wang Fang, Wang Yao, Zhou Dingheng, Cui Bing, Xu Fan and other outstanding actors, join in.
The group performances of the play are very "exquisite". In the play, during Zhong Nanshan's study in the UK, in the process of "testing his life", his wife and father appeared in his mind to encourage him. At this time, on the left side of the stage, there was a scene of Zhong Nanshan and his wife playing ball in their youth. These two extras Huang Mengqi and Xing Chenglong are from the National Fitness Center of the Stadium in Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, and the Civil Aviation Zhongnan Air Traffic Control Bureau, both of whom are athletes, and in real life, the two are husband and wife, and they are more tacit on the stage. The voiceover sounded when the two played basketball, "Hemingway said: Life always makes us bruise, but later, those injured places will become our strongest places." These images hidden deep in memory gave Zhong Nanshan the courage to dedicate himself to medicine. This scene also made the audience particularly moved.