A small theater drama, performed more than 100 times in 12 years, is still difficult to find a ticket, such a box office popularity makes "Relationship" a well-deserved popular masterpiece of Beijing Renyi Small Theater. On January 15th, this work written by Wan Fang and directed by Ren Ming was staged again, and the audience was familiar with the original team members Martin Zhicheng, Liang Dani, Xu Jingyao, Xu Cenzi and the newly joined young actor Zhou Shuai, taking the audience to see the stage, life, no strange and intricate relationship.
Xu Jingyao
"Relationship" is a realistic work focusing on the emotional problems of life, the hero in the play is a successful person in the eyes of others, and he seems to be a family, love, and passion between three women, but in fact, he is deeply involved in complex relationships and faces an unknown crisis. In the end, how to solve the dilemma, the work does not give a clear answer, but takes the audience to explore together. "The play is not a tragic or comedic ending, but a blank space at the end that poses a question for the audience to get involved and think about what role and responsibility everyone should play in marriage and love." Lead actors Ding Zhicheng and Liang Dani said. There is both the presentation of life and the thinking contained in it, which is why the show continues to attract audiences.
Xu Jingyao, Liang Dani
Since the title of the play is "Relationship", each character in the play must show both an independent personality and highlight the relationship with others, which is more of a test of tacit understanding between the actor and the opponent. Whether it is the husband and wife relationship between Sha Chenxing played by Ding Zhicheng and Wu Xiaohua played by Liang Dani, the romantic relationship between Ye Hang played by Xu Jingyao, or the passionate relationship with Du Du played by Xu Cenzi, or even the pursuit relationship between Liu Tian and Ye Hang played by Zhou Shuai, the rivalry between them is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of the play, "Sometimes, without looking at the eyes, you can feel each other's behavior and actions." The actors said that it is this natural flow that allows the audience to quickly substitute into the "relationship", and also makes the complex relationship more clearly displayed in front of the audience.
Xu Jingyao, Ding Zhicheng
After twelve years of stage training, now every actor can play the role in the play is handy, but for them, it is still not an easy task to perform again, in the eyes of the lead actor Ding Zhicheng, "If there is no difficulty in a play, then there is no desire to create." "For example, there are large monologues in this drama, which are extremely demanding of the actors, and the process of each performance is the process of conquering the characters. And small theater plays are not only communicative between actors and actors, but also between actors and audiences. Actors need to be more delicate to express the character's heart. And Liang Dani, who plays his wife in the play, creates new surprises for the audience through the change of details, "The small theater drama is close to the audience, the most important thing is the details, adding points to each detail, and the final work as a whole will have a high score." Twelve years after the performance, my understanding of the character has also changed continuously, starting from the previous year, I weakened the cowardly part of the character and made her more controlling, which is more in line with the audience's thinking about the position of women today. ”
The solid text created by Wan Fang, the second stage creation carried out by director Ren Ming, and the continuous enrichment of the actors, "Relationship" has sought breakthroughs in the past twelve years, often performing new, so that this emotional theme story continues to interact and resonate with new audiences.