"This chair... It's not a chair! ”
"The Chair", which won the "Excellent Film Screenplay Award" in the Chinese World in 1993, is now adapted into a drama on stage.
From March 3rd to 5th, Ryomasha's original black humor comedy "Chair" will be premiered in Shanghai at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. Zhang Tielin combines the writer and director, and a group of drama bones and powerful actors perform passionately. Intriguing stories invite you to take a seat!
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Jingyuan Jingyun presents the story of the old hutong
Zhang Tielin explains the core of unique drama
It is the chair that is moved around, and the person who is kicked around is like a chair.
"Chair" is a thing that takes place in a Beijing hutong, the crisp Beijing accent in the courtyard, the characters in the play, opening their mouths is a joke, and they can say a flower at all.
The protagonist, the old man, has sat in a hard chair in the publishing house all his life. After retiring, he bought an old chair from an antique store, but he didn't expect that life would be chaotic ever since.
"Experts" treated it as a research topic, reporters used it as a signboard, "He President" regarded it as a relic of his ancestors, and his daughter's boyfriend wanted to resell it to make a fortune.
However, the chair disappeared, and at this time, a case of theft of cultural relics occurred, and the old man became a suspect overnight...
"Chair" aims to write a ridiculous "ugly man", in the form of black humor "comedy", to write about the helplessness and distortion of the people at the bottom, which is actually a tearful smile. I emphasize the metaphor of the old man "being kicked like a ball", describe the characters at the bottom, and deeply sympathize with the sad situation of the little people who are bullied.
Strive to unearth the ridiculous and sad elements of life, exaggerate, satirize, and ruthlessly expose. Everything seems grotesque and ridiculous, and behind the "laughter", there is a deep self-mockery, which is the absurdity and humor of "The Chair".
- Zhang Tielin
(Screenwriter/director/starring of the drama "Chair")
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Drama bones sit in town & stand-up comedians blessed
Gags interpret the city pyrotechnics
The team of "Chair" has a sense of humor from the script to the lines, and the actors are even better at interpreting the fireworks of the city. This drama has a set of old drama bone team.
Liu Jinshan
Liu Jinshan, a first-class actor of the National Theatre of China, will play the neighbor "Wang Bagua", who loves to make a splash.
Liu Jinshan is the elder brother of Jin Lao Er in "Northeast Family", Pan Daqing in "Idle Sister Ma", the property manager in "I am the Owner", and the head chef in "Adoptive Father"... As a national first-class actor, he used extremely "life-like" acting skills to create many lifelike little characters.
However, compared with these little people, the "villain" role he plays is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The fat translator of the traitor in "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" is the first impressive villain role for Liu Jinshan in the public's mind.
After that, the straw bale Hu Chuankui in "Shajiabang", the sow dragon in "Wolf Poison Flower", the rogue Wu Treasurer in "Crossing the Guandong", the drug lord in "National Image"... The villains with distinct personalities made the audience itch their teeth after watching it, and they had to admire his acting skills.
Li Qinqin
Li Qinqin, who won the 4th Chinese Film Media Best Supporting Actress Award for the movie "Carla is a Dog", plays Aunt Jin, a neighborhood committee who is worried everywhere.
Speaking of her name, you may be a little unfamiliar, but you must be very impressed by the roles she has played. In "Beijing Story", she is the young and lively girl Fang Limin; In "Carla is a Dog", she is a kind-hearted city woman; In "The Gate of the Mansion", she is the daughter-in-law of the Bai family who often puts "this matter is not up to me"...
In recent years, she often appears in family life dramas, is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people "evil mother-in-law", such as Luo Jia's mother in "When a mother-in-law meets a mother", Shen Zi's mother-in-law in "The Happy Life of a Mother-in-law", Yuan Jinxia's adoptive mother in "The World of Brocade", and last year she came out of the circle again with the role of "Xiao mother" Gao Caiping in "Dear Child", broken mouth and no boundaries, Li Qinqin played a typical Chinese parent vividly.
Qin Yan
The actor of "He Liming" in the TV series "Crazy" is Qin Yan, a powerful actor known as "Golden Medal Green Leaf", who became the big treasurer of an antique store in the drama "Chair".
Qin Yan is an "old acquaintance" in film and television works.
In 1991, he made his first appearance in the TV series "The Story of the Editorial Office", entered the film and television industry, and appeared in the first sitcom "I Love My Home" in the mainland in 1994. Since then, he has participated in dramas including "Big Examination", "Basic Law of Genius", "Breakthrough", "Through the Mountains and Seas", "An Home", "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat, Red and Thin", "Ruyi's Legend", "Tiansheng Long Song", "Fu Shao", "Red Sorghum", "Divorce Lawyer", "Mansion Gate 2" and so on.
And a series of movies such as "Antiques Bureau Middle Bureau", "Wuxia", "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire", "Heroes", "With You", "Endless", "Old Things in Seongnam" and so on, let the audience see his superb acting skills on the big screen.
Xiao Daiqing
Xiao Daiqing was born in a pear garden family, Xiao Men is the fifth generation of Liyuan leaders, and is the great-grandson of Xiao Changhua, a master of Peking Opera harlequins. His father is Xiao Runde, and his mother Hu Quanchen is the daughter of the famous artist Hu Yumin. In 1978, the Chinese Drama School resumed traditional opera teaching, and among the first students it welcomed was Xiao Daiqing.
After graduation, Xiao Daiqing joined the Peking Opera in China. By chance, because he starred in "A Generation of Demon Queens" directed by Li Hanxiang, he officially stepped into the film and television industry. starred in works such as "Huang Yanpei", "Shaqiao Farewell", "Holding the Peak to View the Painting", "Red Sorghum", "Brilliant Star" and so on.
Little North
In addition to having drama bones, the black humor comedy "Chair" also invited the new generation of stand-up comedian Xiaobei to join.
Active in variety shows, he will give full play to the specialty of "Duan Hand" and play the role of the poor-mouthed little devil "Onion", adding more vividness and funny to the story.
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Rich in freehand and dissociation
Colorful black humor
Funny as the surface, irony as the inside, ridicule and abuse, chaos in the truth, this is the style of classic black comedy.
The same goes for "The Chair". It will use freehand techniques to describe Old Master Ye's almost pedantic maverick literati feelings through almost absurd plots and characters. Through stylized expression, the face-painted characters of life, dan, clean, end and ugly will stand in front of the audience.
The set of Beijing hutongs, the embedding of movie montages, the changes of multiple plays, and the various characters who appear in the ink will add a touch of bizarre to the story.
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A "chair" glimpse of all kinds of things
See the truth in the banter
"The Chair" was created in the 90s, but its connotation is still out of date today.
The world is changing too fast, and ordinary people are often as difficult to distinguish between true and false as the old man in the play.
"The Chair" is still about those old questions about life and human nature.
The fate of all people is based on their own situations and choices, and the protagonist has always expected himself to be treated and accepted by the times, and when these expectations are dashed with a chair that cannot be obtained, he suddenly lets go.
Finally, the play also borrowed the mouth of "chair essence" to tell the truth: "In these years, people love to be too lively, and it is not easy to take what is true, and it is not easy to call it fake again." ”
"Chair" stills photography: Cai Yuan, Wang Dawei, Zhao Ruochen, Haidian appendix, Tasu