The large-scale original puppet drama "The Legend of Luohan" is the first large-scale original puppet drama created and performed in 2016 since the transformation of Wuhan Renyi into an enterprise, and its successful performance has opened a new chapter in the development of Wuhan cane puppets. This year, the academy will reorganize the main creative team of the play, polish and improve it, and strive to polish the play into a puppet drama work with ideological, artistic and ornamental qualities, and participate in the Nanchong International Puppet Art Festival. It is reported that the play will appear in the 8th Wuhan International Drama Performance Season on November 18 and 19, and will be performed twice in the Zhongnan Theater Coliseum.
Poster of the large-scale original puppet show "The Legend of Arhat" (new version).
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > strong, brave, intelligent little practitioner</h1>
Under the guidance and help of the Buddha, the little monk Luo Yaluo wiped away his tears, met difficulties and challenges, and stuck to his goals in setbacks, and finally, he seized the opportunity to solve the dilemma of the little bird; at a critical moment, he braved himself to save the people from danger and light up in the darkness. Through this experience, the little monk learned to control his emotions, meditate quietly, learned to use his brain to think of ways, learned to practice what he preached, overcame difficulties, and became a strong, brave, intelligent and wise little practitioner, and won the title of "Contemplative Arhat". The story revolves more closely around the protagonist, unifying the legendary, watchable, and temple Buddha nature, which not only reflects the growth of the little monk, but also shows the bittersweet and bittersweet of the human world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > praises the good and promotes sincerity and friendliness</h1>
The creation of the large-scale original puppet drama "The Legend of Luohan" aims to praise the beautiful, lash out at the ugly, and carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation such as sincerity, friendliness and helpfulness. Tell people that the maturity and growth of children are inseparable from the careful guidance and help of elders. Elders should not only care for his initial good character, but also let the children learn to think independently in real life, face difficulties alone, use their brains to think of ways, exercise his ability to deal with problems alone, help when necessary, let the children be tempered in the wind and rain, and grow into both independent thinking ability and practical ability to solve difficulties, so that the small tree that has not been winded and rain can gradually grow into a big tree that can withstand the wind and rain. At the same time, enrich the construction of original plays, further promote the innovative development of Wuhan cane puppet art, and use excellent original works to concentrate on displaying the unique personality and charm of the national intangible cultural heritage project - Wuhan Cane Head Puppet Show, so that Wuhan Cane Head Puppet Art will continue to be carried forward.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > contains the characteristics of musical theater and has the style of opera</h1>
This drama is a legendary puppet drama, which contains the characteristics of musical theater, but also has the style of opera, its tragic and joyful blending characteristics, reflecting the characteristics of Zhongzheng peaceful drama, it not only praises kindness and beauty, wisdom and wisdom, the elders' careful teaching and help to the younger generations, but also exposes the ugly qualities of solipsism, selfishness, snobbery, aiding and abetting abuse, etc., it not only embodies the precious human truth of family affection and great love, but also reveals the weakness of weakness and blind obedience, thus showing the audience a three-dimensional picture of the human world with multiple prisms. It has the following features:
1. The drama is mainly based on stories with local characteristics of Wuhan, supplemented by the formal art of Wuhan cane puppets to present the chinese national customs and national energy.
2. In order to express emotions, expound philosophy, and diversify the needs of stage styles, the play mainly uses Chinese puppets- the national intangible cultural heritage Wuhan cane puppets, and at the same time integrates various forms of puppets such as cloth bag puppets and iron branch puppets to jointly interpret, so that "Legend of Luohan" is colorful and novel in style.
3. A large number of film techniques have been used, breaking through the previous single form and old-fashioned puppet theater stage performance.
4. The perfect combination of the traditional skills of Chinese puppets and emotional philosophy makes the audience resonate and think.
5. The use of a large number of symbolic expression techniques, poetic display of stage characters and characters of the soul, the combination of realism and freehand, reproduction and performance, the respect for the elderly and love for the young Chinese national virtue exaggeration without losing the true color, humorous and serious, simple and profound, rigorous and flexible in a edutainment way to the majority of children, is a traditional skills of modern expression, suitable for all ages modern puppet drama.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > wuhan people's art theater and wuhan puppet art protection and inheritance center as the main creators</h1>
Chen Jun: Screenwriter of the play. First-class screenwriter of Wuhan Art Creation Research Center. He has composed a number of dramas, musicals, operas and skits. Among them, the drama "Escort" won the "Excellent New Repertoire Award" of the 7th China Arts Festival, and the script won the 4th Excellent Script Award of Hubei Province; the play participated in the International Drama Festival and was included in China's "Centennial Drama Graphics". The drama "Filial Piety" won the first Wuhan Excellent Script Award. The drama sketch "Feelings Report" won the second prize of the National Sketch Competition, the musical short drama "New Human" won the third prize of the National Sketch Competition, the drama sketch "Xunzi" won the second prize of the first Wuhan Sketch Competition, and the micro-film "Dance of Love" won the first prize of the first National Micro Film Script Competition. In addition, he also created and published long-form documentary literature "Who Committed Suicide", "Self-Statement on the Marriage of 100 Men and Women", "Actor Ma Yi", long-form documentary "The Root of Hankou", etc.; created more than 60 episodes of TV dramas and performed them.
Ma Lu: National first-class director; graduated from the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama, Majoring in Chinese Language and Literature of Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin Nankai University Literary and Art Training Class, Central Academy of Drama Senior Director Graduate Class; Member of the Directors Committee of the Chinese Dramatists Association; Current Vice President of the China Children's Drama Research Association; Executive Director of the Chinese Drama Research Association; Member of the Chinese Dramatists Association; Standing Director of the China Puppet Shadow Puppet Association; Executive Director of the Tianjin Drama Association; Director of the Tianjin Drama Education Committee, Director of the Tianjin Filmmakers Association. Outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture, recipient of government subsidies from the State Council, member of the 11th to 14th CPPCC Committee of Tianjin, member of the Standing Committee of Tianjin Minjin Municipal Committee, and chairman of Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. Former Vice President of Tianjin People's Art Theatre; former Vice President of Tianjin Children's Art Theatre. He has taught at the Opera Graduate Class of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts in Beijing, the Department of Drama, Film and Television of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, and the Department of Drama, Film and Television of Tianjin Youth Vocational College. His directing works include the drama "Hamlet", "Mother Don't Cry We Are All Here", "The Gently Falling Red Scarf", "The Ape Man Flies in the Sky", "The Left Hand Warms the Right Hand", "Thunderstorm", "Sunrise", "The Wilderness", "The Story of Irkusk", "Youth Awakening", "Youth Taboo Game", "The Seventh Flower Office", "Macbeth", "Here the Dawn Is Quiet", "Salem's Witch", "The Legend of the Pheasant", etc., children's drama "Nima Sun", "Young Huo Yuanjia"; Musical "Panama Straw Hat", "The Story of the Goldfish and the Fisherman 2014", "In Search of Hyribu", "Puppy Beanie", "Tiger Harry", "Fox and Crow", "Alpha Planet Adventure", "Mindless and Unhappy", "Dream Baby"; puppet drama "Huashan Kid", "Big Belly Maitreya Buddha", "The Legend of Tanabata", "Marco Polo and the Giant Panda", "The Wizard of Oz", "The Nutcracker", "The Legend of Luohan", "The Legend of West Lake", "My Friend is Alien", "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West"; Eighteen Lixiang", "Sunrise in the East, Rain in the West", etc.; TV series: "Ah, Shell", "Martian Recruitment". He has won the 11th National Plum Blossom Award, the 9th Wenhua Performance Award of the Ministry of Culture, the Wenhua Director Award of the Ministry of Culture, the Golden Lion Director Award of the Ministry of Culture, the Gold Medal of the National Ethnic Minority Performance Director, the Gold Award of International Puppet Theatre Director, and the Five One Project Award of the Central Propaganda Department three times.
Xu Ming: The stage design of the play. A famous contemporary young stage designer, he graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy and is now a full-time stage designer at the Shanghai Peking Opera House. At the age of 26, he won the highest individual award of the country, "Wenhua Award, Stage Art Design Award". He was praised by the China Stage Art Society as "a leading figure in the new talent of the stage art industry and a leader in the field of space design of the new generation." His designs have won various national and professional awards. In the past ten years of creation, he has designed more than 60 works, covering more than 20 kinds of dramas, involving Beijing-Kunming national opera, various operas, song and dance musicals, drama children's dramas, etc. The representative works of the main stage plays are: Beijing-Kunguo Opera: newly edited Peking Opera "Notre Dame", Kun opera "White Rabbit", newly edited Peking Opera "Bronze Bull", large-scale multimedia mythological Peking Opera "Fengshen List", Peking Opera "Meifei", "Hundred Flowers Princess", "Pansi Cave", "OolongYuan" and so on. Opera: large-scale modern Dian opera "Water Mangcao", large-scale modern Sichuan opera "Wen Jianming", large-scale modern Yue opera "Ma Yinchu", modern Huangmei opera "Dream of the Earth", Yu opera modern drama "Shi Laihe", large-scale modern color tune drama "Mountain Song Pulls out the Moon", newly compiled Yue opera "Hydrangea Record", newly compiled Shao drama "Hundred Years of Expedition", newly compiled large-scale historical Qin "Seven-step Poem", Yue tune "Daming Zhu Yuanzhang" and so on. Song and dance musicals: large-scale Buyi ethnic current ecological dance drama "Li You Hot Harmonic", puppet musical "Legend of Longmen", puppet drama "Legend of West Lake", musical "Ge Yunfei", "Internet Love Words", etc., contemporary dance drama "National Color", etc., musical theater "Night Feast", courtyard version of the music show "Dream of the Red Chamber", musical legend series "2015 Music Legend" 12th issue, Vienna Schönbrunn Palace version of "Dream of the Red Chamber Music Legend". Drama children's drama: school drama "Youth Runway", drama "Home", "Youth 100%", "4.48 Mental Breakdown", "Runzhi on the Sea", "The Longest Night", "One Servant and Two Lords", "Yokogi", "Family Grudge", "Crazy Dog Desire", "Crazy Age", etc., children's drama "The Emperor's New Clothes", comedy "Messenger of Light", burlesque drama "Qian Du Summons for Rain", "Old House Has Drama" and so on.
Lu Weidong: The lighting design of the play. National first-class lighting design. Graduated from the Stage Art Department of the Central Academy of Drama. The lighting design of the National Theatre of China is designed for more than 100 dramas, operas, operas, musicals and children's dramas. Representative works include: "Returning to the People in the Night of The Storm and Snow", "Ma Lanhua", "Guan Hanqing", "Minister of Chincha", "Three Cent Opera", "Forbidden Games of Youth", "Copenhagen", "This is the Last Struggle", "Li Qiu", "Standing Awake", "Acting Village Official", etc., and has won various awards issued by the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Drama Association for many times.
Wan Jiangfeng: The composition and music design of the play. He is a national first-class composer of Wuhan Song and Dance Theatre, a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, a member of the Hubei Provincial Music Association, and a director of the Wuhan Music Association. He has participated in the creation of a number of stage plays and large-scale theme literary and art evenings, and has won various awards from the Ministry of Culture, provinces and municipalities for many times, among which the dance poem "Home Lives by the Yangtze River" and the modern Peking Opera "Jiqing Street Life Show" have won the "Wenhua Music Creation Award" of the Ministry of Culture. Other stage plays created include "Ink River City", "Baiyun Yellow Crane is hometown", "Chinese music without borders", "Li Story", "Chushui Bashan", "Shennongjia Drum Beating", "Jiang Han Feng", "Zhong JuXiangrui", "Wudu Fenghua", "Qianqiao Flowing Water Osmanthus Fragrance", "Charming Xiangxi", "China Has a Hainan Island", "Jingshan Chuyuan" and Wuhan Acrobatic Troupe "Dream Nine Songs", Shandong Provincial Acrobatic Troupe "Flying Whirl", Peking Opera "Water Lantern", 2011-2015 Hubei Satellite TV "Yandi Root Festival" and so on
Yuan Xianqiao: Puppet design of the play. National second-class stage design. He once served as the designer and producer of Wuhan Renyi puppets. In 1992, the puppet drama "Long Sleeve Dance" designed and produced in the National Puppet Shadow Show won the Modeling Award issued by the Ministry of Culture, and in 1997, it won the Puppet Design Award in the New Drama (Mesh) Exchange Performance of the Fourth Wuhan Municipal Academy of Arts Troupe. Representative works include: "Tile Car Tent", "Fan Pear Flower", "Bao Gong Case", "Chasing Fish", "Flame Mountain", "Red Cloud Cliff", "Two-Gun Old Lady", "Kitten Climbing Tree", "Zhidou Plague Prefect", "Nezha Noisy Sea", "Pig Eight Commandments Eat Watermelon", "Fox and Bear", "Bet eat cake", "Qingguan Spectrum", "Three-headed Bird", "Dummy", "Lion Dance", etc., and created large-scale puppet dramas such as "Touching the Flower Palanquin", "Legend of Taishan", "Three Dozen White Bone Essences", "Honey Orange Baby", "Teenager and Yellow Crane".
Tan Zhiyuan: Puppet director of the play. National level actor. Former deputy head of the China Puppet Theater Troupe, member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, member of the Beijing Dramatists Association, director of the China Puppet Shadow Puppet Art Society, and director of the Beijing Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Representative works include: the traditional drama "Blocking horses", the large-scale mythological drama "Pig Eight Commandments Back Daughter-in-Law", "Sun Wukong Haunting the Heavenly Palace", "Longevity Grass", "Sword Peak Hero", large-scale children's drama "Grassland Red Flower", fairy tale drama "Wild Swan" and dozens of other plays. The film and television dramas he has starred in include "Puppet Song and Dance", "Obayashi and Kobayashi", "Idiom Story", and "Little Bell Sequel". Among them, "Sun Wukong Haunting the Heavenly Palace" has won the highest art award and the children's selection award (this award is the highest award in the children's category). In 1990, he went to Japan to study modern puppet performance art, and was hired by the Nagoya City Yuki Puppet Troupe in Japan, where he participated in the director's work and performed such dramas as "Playing Tiger in Spring", "The County Official's Playing lion", "Cold Mother", and "Guo Xiu playing the cello". In 1994, tan zhiyuan theater was established in Japan, and the choreographer created and performed puppet plays.
All the actors of the play are all outstanding actors from the Wuhan People's Art Theater and the Wuhan Puppet Art Protection and Inheritance Center.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" > performance information</h1>
The play will be unveiled in the 8th Wuhan International Theatre Season on November 18 and 19, and will be performed twice in the Zhongnan Theater Coliseum. (Wuhan released Xia Junjun correspondent Jiang Yanli)
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