"The Story of Chess", adapted from the novel of the same name by the Austrian literary giant Zweig, is an anti-war indictment of the writer after two world wars, and a spiritual elegy for his imprisonment and persecution.
One is the idiot chess genius Centovich. He is complacent, even in wheel battles, and he is firm, calm and decisive when playing against each other. He was fortunate enough to glimpse the mysteries of chess, but was obsessed with the fame and wealth that came with the world championship and was arrogant.
One is Dr. B, a genius lawyer who has been cultivated under high pressure. He was held incommunicado by the Gestapo for his family business and tortured physically and mentally by the Nazis. During his captivity, the only salvation was a stolen chess book of famous masters, who triumphed over emptiness by observation, memory and imagination, and even split into two personalities to play blind chess in his mind.
On this ocean-going passenger ship, the little-known Dr. B, with his superb chess skills, reversed the defeat within a few moves, and once defeated the hot world champion Chandovich, becoming a peerless chess king.
However, Centovich soon discovered that Dr. B's chess skills were brilliant, and his only weaknesses were restlessness and irritability. He quietly requested the next round, deliberately delaying the delaying interval.
Dr. B could not bear the long wait, and he fell into his own confusion again, and began to pace, like in that small cell, like trapped in a beast of nothingness, gradually falling into the brink of madness.
Addicted to victory, Centovich is like a trained strategist, cold and insidious. He begins to employ time-consuming delaying tactics, trying to destroy Dr. B's mental will with emptiness, as selfish and cold as the Gestapo.
Afraid of emptiness, Dr. B began to create another game in his mind to resist this familiar boredom and unease.
Long-term psychological destruction, self-confrontation without opponents, fanatical and sick passion, damaged Dr. B's spiritual personality, he became a hero who maintains his personal will, and also a tragic hero in the black and white world.
He escaped persecution by playing chess, but fell into a nervous breakdown. He once triumphed over the conspiracy by imagination, but he could not overcome himself and get out of the shadow of persecution. The wound on his arm reminded him of that painful past, and Dr. B woke up in time.
Dr. B does not want to be a slave to nothingness, nor does he want to prove that he is fighting with chess. Perhaps the success of the battle is not worth exaggerating, only the present is real.
Dr. B gave up the addiction, and he humbly threw in the towel to avoid a possible conflict. After turning to leave, only in exchange for Centovich's pretend generosity of mockery, "It's a pity." For an amateur, such a talent is extraordinary. ”
This is an absurd tragedy, this is a spiritual battle against the Nazis. A genius who was born knowing how to play chess, addicted to victory, became an arrogant Gestapo. A man who was forced to resist emptiness by playing chess, addicted to the illusion of battle, became his own Gestapo.
Rebelling against the world must ultimately be implemented to the small goal of defeating oneself. To get rid of the illusion of self-worship, after all, we must rely on the courage to face the self and examine the inner consciousness to achieve self-redemption.
Unfortunately, after Zweig wrote this anti-war swan song, he finally couldn't get out of his inner sense of guilt and powerlessness. In Brazil, far from his homeland, he and his wife both take sedatives, fight massacres with suicide, and respond to tyranny in a self-destructive way.
In his suicide note, he wrote, "Europe as a spiritual home has self-destructed, and I have nowhere else to rebuild my life." He tried to fight with the power of words, but became Dr. B who collapsed, and in deep loneliness and despair, became a martyr of human civilization.
This masterpiece was adapted into a one-man play by Guo Xiao, who wears many hats, writing, directing and acting by himself. He is sometimes wild on stage, sometimes playing affectionately, sometimes crazy and angry, sometimes heroic, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes calm, quite stage charm.
The deep hatred of war, the hatred of fascism, the thirst for freedom, the regret of genius and geeks, like an impermeable web of emotions, shrouded the theater.
In the performance, a lot of Chinese localization adaptations were also carried out, and the unique skills such as commenting books and passing through the mouth were unique, and one person alone blocked thousands of troops. Especially reciting "Mulan Words" backwards, the restraint of expression makes people respectful.
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