Reporter: Wish Correspondent: Zhou Yuanyuan
In order to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Mr. Cao Yu's birth, Cao Yu, Wan Fang father and daughter two generations of playwrights and European famous theater director Eric La Casscade collided and exchanged, the first big drama of the Fifth Qintai Arts Festival Yanghua annual production of Liantai opera stage drama "Thunderstorm" and "Thunderstorm • After" will be staged on The Qintai Grand Theatre will be staged on October 16-17!
"Thunderstorm" is a work created by Mr. Cao Yu in 1933, and after 87 years, Mr. Cao Yu's daughter playwright Wan Fang created "After the Thunderstorm". Different from the previous performance habits, the performance form of Liantai Opera is to perform "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" in the afternoon and evening on the same day, so that the audience can spend half a day immersed in the discussion of human nature between Cao Yu Wanfang and father and daughter.
Over the years, "Thunderstorm" has been put on the stage by major theaters, but this time, not only Cao Yu's classic work "Thunderstorm", but also Cao Yu's daughter, screenwriter Wan Fang's new works, for the first time in a continuous stage play! With a new perspective and international perspective, we will narrate "Thunderstorm" and "Thunderstorm · after the story.
The story of "After the Thunderstorm" takes place more than ten years after the "Thunderstorm": from the perspective of the three surviving old people, the night and youth of "Thunderstorm" are recalled, delicate, sincere, and virtual and realistic memories of more details in "Thunderstorm", and also explain more storylines, character psychology and fate relationships before and after the story of "Thunderstorm". Like a symphony, Zhou Puyuan, who attempted suicide, bravely faces memories, love and hate, fate and death in his later years with Xuan Yi and Shi Ping, and how to pray for forgiveness and reconcile with himself.
Zhou Ping in Liu Kaiwei's play is an extremely contradictory character. He wavered, wanting to be upheld, but unable to resist temptation, much like most of us. Following the original intention of being an actor, reshaping himself, improving his performance ability, and starting from "Liantai Opera" to bring more works with a sense of culture and quality to everyone, liu Kaiwei's new plan for his acting career.
The stars on the stage are bright, and their appearance and acting skills are excellent, which makes this work more vivid. He Saifei, the beauty of the stage is incomprehensible, and the woman on the stage that Zhou Puyuan will never forget for a lifetime is none other than her; Kong Wei, who has played Yang Hua's "New Wilderness" and "Beijingers", is one of the powerful "big Qingyi" who is most familiar with Cao Yu and Wan Fang's characters; Lu Xingchen, after the literary and artistic shadow, is full of vitality offstage, full of youth on stage, giving people the same breath as spring.
Tong Ruimin is a senior senior in the cultural, performing arts and education circles, a national first-class director; Xu Deliang is a famous cross-talk actor, music researchist, host, writer, calligrapher and painter, and is the only actor in the cross-talk industry with a bachelor's degree from Peking University.
In addition to the above-mentioned starring actors, the actors of the consecutive stage dramas "Thunderstorm" and "Thunderstorm After" also include: Luo Yongjuan, the champion of the Chinese women's group of CCTV Dreams, Li Zonglei and Sui Guo, veteran stage actors, and newcomers Liu Encheng, Zhang Heqin, and Shi Wanchuan, who will work with you to complete this classic, grand and poetic and youthful work of Chinese contemporary drama.
For the first time, Cao Yu Wanfang's father-daughter works were presented in a continuous stage play
In the dim theater, thunder rolled in. When the lights gradually rose, Wan Fang read affectionately: "Zhou Ping: Young people are confused for a while, do you refuse to forgive what they did wrong..." This fragment is from Mr. Cao Yu's classic play "Thunderstorm", and Wan Fang launched a human dialogue and discussion with his father through time and space with the stage drama "Thunderstorm After". When the lights came back, the famous host Zhang Yue appeared on the stage, and as a co-speaker of this live broadcast event, she began to introduce the front and back of the stage drama "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm".
△ Playwright Wan Fang conducted a reading of the fragment of "After the Thunderstorm"
(Left is "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" actor Liu Kaiwei)
Zhang Yue said: "When Mr. Cao Yu created "Thunderstorm", the 1930s was a magnificent historical period, and there were strong old men, new women who rebelled, young people who longed for freedom, old rules that constrained them, class contradictions, gender conflicts, contradictions between old and new ideas, contradictions between soul and body, and so on, all of which were ultimately destroyed in a thunderstorm. The dead are dead, how can the living live? Ten years later, it was the era of "After thunderstorm" written by Teacher Wan Fang. As an audience, today we are all 'after the thunderstorm', we look at human nature, look at fate, and look at ourselves in "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm". ”
Talking about why he continued the story of "Thunderstorm" and created "Thunderstorm After", the famous playwright, the literary editor of the stage play "Thunderstorm" and the screenwriter of "Thunderstorm" Explained in the repertoire elaboration: "The original work of "Thunderstorm" has a prologue and an epilogue, in which only a pair of children brothers and sisters and two old people who live in this spooky big house are discussed, and the prologue and epilogue are almost deleted in many performances. My adaptation of "Thunderstorm" begins precisely from the era of the prologue and epilogue, from the old age of the characters in the play, which is a new perspective. When the story of "Thunderstorm" has passed decades later, the damned are long dead, and the living have lived a long life. At this time, the years and time have given "Thunderstorm" another look. Complex human nature, impermanent life, all the waves of time washed and washed day after day after revealing a deeper layer, those buried deep truths revealed, this is "Thunderstorm After". ”
△ The famous host Zhang Yue, not only the host of the event, but also as a "storyteller", connected the entire "performance action".
Speaking of why he originally wanted to create "Thunderstorm" and "Thunderstorm After", Wang Keran, artistic director and chief producer of Yanghua Theater and chief producer of "Thunderstorm" and "Thunderstorm", said in an interview before the event: "To commemorate Mr. Cao Yu is to commemorate Chinese drama, and to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Cao Yu's birth, we must show the relationship between the vigorous development of drama and the times, and the relationship with human nature, and he is the foothold of our profession in this era." The works of Mr. Cao Yu and Teacher Wan Fang were chosen not only because the two are father-daughter relations, but also because in Wan Fang's brushstrokes we can see that she inherited and developed her father's dramatic height of observing life and observing human nature in the changing times. And that's becoming more relevant to all the theater people today, and to all those who have experienced COVID-19. ”
Rehearsed for three months, just to repeatedly polish a good play
Under Zhang Yue's cross-talk, the main actors of the whole play appeared from all corners of the theater one after another, telling their understanding and interpretation of the roles they played. "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" were officially unveiled: Liu Kaiwei played Zhou Ping, He Saifei played Lu Shuping, Kong Wei played Fanyi, Tong Ruimin played Zhou Puyuan, Xu Deliang played Lu Gui, Lu Xingchen played Sifeng, Li Zonglei played Lu Dahai, and young actors Liu Encheng, Zhang Heqin, Sui Guo, Shi Wanchuan, Luo Yongjuan, all the actors in the play have appeared on stage to meet the audience on the scene and in the clouds for the first time. From the perspective of themselves and their characters, they tell their understanding of this drama in a ritualistic way, and carry out a unique and charming "real human amplification".
△ Liu Kaiwei expressed his understanding of "Zhou Ping" by telling him about the best state of life in the activity. His warmest memories are about his grandmother, so that he can feel the warmth of his family even if he is in a foreign country. And the "Zhou Ping" he played, but he did not feel such warmth.
Liu Kaiwei, who performed a stage play for the first time, said that it is a great honor to be able to cooperate with so many industry seniors, and at this stage, he is fully involved in the excavation and interpretation of the role of Zhou Ping, in the rehearsal process, he treats himself as a "blank piece of paper", and every day he absorbs the experience of his predecessors like a student and re-understands the performance.
△ Tong Ruimin shared his understanding of the play: "Cao Yu uses the means of drama to reveal a true meaning of life and society for us, so I personally think that this is a social drama. ”
The famous actor Tong Ruimin recounted his interaction with Mr. Cao Yu in those years, and also raised his confusion about the transformation of the character of Zhou Puyuan, and said that he would give everyone an explanation on the stage. He Saifei, who was asked by many viewers why he did not play the role of Prosperity, said that this is the plasticity of the actor and the charm of the performance.
△ Kong Wei shared his understanding of the role of Xuanyi: "Is Fangyi brave? Brave, cowardly? Also cowardly, what does her bravery come from, and what does her cowardice come from? Unfair, yes, there is too much unfairness, today I am going to use my own reading to give you a ripple. ”
△ He Saifei shared his feelings at the event: "Don't you think that every character in "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" is so vivid, so vivid, so explorable? As long as you participate in the rehearsals of "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm", you are lucky, happy and happy. ”
It is worth mentioning that when the cast was released before, some netizens raised questions about the choice of actors in Fangyi and Lu Shuping, and the host Zhang Yue explained: "We have a stereotype of Shuping, thinking that she is a bitter old lady. But I think it's a misunderstanding, in "Thunderstorm" Shi Ping is actually only in her forties, she just experienced the hardships of life. Moreover, when she was young, the arrogant Zhou Puyuan was crazy for her, how beautiful and charming she had to be. ”
△ Xu Deliang talked about the Lu Gui he is about to play: "I must explain that just now this is Lu Gui in "Thunderstorm", I am not like this in my life. I am Xu Deliang, thank you. ”
△ Lu Xingchen shared her feelings about the role of Si Feng, she will play: "This is too absurd, I don't need others to speak for me, my fate and freedom are in my own hands, I don't compromise." I am Lu Xingchen, and I played the four phoenixes in "Thunderstorm". ”
The actors of the whole play overcame the problems and difficulties of the schedule and devoted themselves to the creation. In today's faster and faster life, people can rarely stop to study and think, and few drama crews can take such a long time to carry out a rigorous and complete creation, which is even the most movies and TV series can not do. For the crew of "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm", the lead creators are willing to pay time and energy to participate in this exploration journey, just so that they can finally present a good play to the audience, presenting a good play that is both good-looking and can strongly resonate with contemporary audiences.
△ Li Zonglei played Lu Dahai in the dramas "Thunderstorm", "After Thunderstorm", and "Thunderstorm".
An adventure is also an innovation of combining East and West
The last creator to appear in the event was eric La Cascascade, the show's director. He has directed three repertoire of the Palais des Papals in Avignon, France, in which the 2000 Chekhov Trilogy allowed global audiences to see his extraordinary control and innovation of realist works. In the face of the Chinese realist classic "Thunderstorm" and its extension of "Thunderstorm After", what kind of interpretation director La Casscade will make has become one of the most anticipated points of this drama.
△ Stage director Eric Lacascade
Director Eric said: "In my opinion, Mr. Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm" has several layers of dramatic power: the first layer is about the search for desire and love, despair and death; the second layer is women's desire for a free life in the patriarchal family, which is particularly important in the current situation of the epidemic, which is also an issue I want to discuss in this play; the third layer is violence and struggle between father and son; the fourth layer is money, which is still a problem in today's world, a disease of the whole society; and the other layer is class struggle. As for Ms. Wan Fang's "After thunderstorm", it is a continuation of "Thunderstorm", and those characters are back, and they light up their lives in different ways and reveal some secrets. After such a great tragedy, what kind of life will they live? What possibilities will they develop? The writing of "After Thunderstorm" is contemporary, it is a very good script, and it complements some of the questions that "Thunderstorm" asks us. I believe that the audience will have their own repercussions and echoes after watching the performance, see you in the theater! ”
△Group photo of the event
For Chinese audiences who are accustomed to watching the traditional version of "Thunderstorm", inviting foreign creative teams to reinterpret the classic is undoubtedly a "risky" move. In this regard, Wang Keran explained in the interview: "This is indeed an adventure, but I think this must also be a pioneering move to combine East and West." Director Eric is an artist who can present classic works with an international perspective and innovative means and gain market value. Yanghua Drama hopes to bring richer interpretations to Chinese drama classics, so that the audience can see the combination of classic works and the current theatrical stage to release more unique vitality. ”
△ Sui Guo: ""Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" for me today, it is like a class, the only class I have hoped to skip when I was young to large, hello everyone, I am the actor Sui Guo, playing Lu Gui B and the old servant in the play. ”
△ Shi Wanchuan: "After reading this script, I was amazed, the most complex and beautiful love I know is in it, it makes me particularly moved and surprised, I am Shi Wanchuan, playing Lu Dahai B corner." ”
△ Luo Yongjuan: "As an explorer, "Thunderstorm" is a drama for me, and "After Thunderstorm" is also a new drama for me, but whether in the play or in life, I am that X, infinite possibilities. Hello everyone, I am an actress and singer Luo Yongjuan, and I play a singer in "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm". ”
Photography: Tasu, Fuyu
Remember the rave reviews of "Dreamlike Dreams", "Love Letters", "Jewish Town", "Ponzi Scheme"? This time, "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" are the highlights of the New Year.
All the staff work together, just to finally present you with a wonderful and colorful drama that resonates and resonates with you. Wait for the winter wind, wait for you to come, for you to perform!
A drama that takes you to interpret the wanderings of two families and takes you to understand the poetry of human nature and destiny.
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The name of the show
Yanghua annual production of stage drama "Thunderstorm", "After Thunderstorm"
Show times
October 16, 2021 2 performances
Thunderstorm 14:30
After Thunderstorm 19:30
October 17, 2021 2 performances
Length of the show
"Thunderstorm" 150 minutes (no intermission)
"After Thunderstorm" 90 minutes (no intermission)
Number of performances: 4 in total
fare
880/680/480/380/280/180/100 yuan
Starring Cast //
"Thunderstorm"
Liu Kaiwei, He Saifei, Tong Ruimin
Kong Wei, Xu Deliang, Lu Xingchen
Li Zonglei, Liu Encheng, Sui Guo, Shi Wanchuan
After Thunderstorm
Tong Ruimin, He Saifei, Liu Kaiwei
Kong Wei, Lv Xingchen, Luo Yongjuan
Liu Encheng, Zhang Heqin, Shi Xu
Children under 1.2 meters in this performance will not be admitted
"Thunderstorm" literary editor, "Thunderstorm After" screenwriter: Wan Fang
Directed by Eric Lacascade (France)
Director system: Guo Wenpeng
Executive Producer: Zhang Chaohui, Wang Keran
Chief Producers: Keran Wang, Anna Isa Martin, Jean Varela
Producer: Li Xiong
Chinese directors: Zhang Rui, Lin Lin
Executive Producers: Hong Dashan, Peng Yiwei, Yu Yue