A father and daughter who have severed their relationship, a choice between love and affection. From January 12th to 14th, Yanghua's annual drama work "How Are You" will be unveiled. The play is written by Wan Fang, the daughter of Cao Yu and a famous writer, directed by Wang Keran, the founder and artistic director of Yanghua Drama, and Zhang Rui, a young director, and performed by actors Tao Hui, Li Zonglei, Fan Yinshan, Wang Ziwei, Xue Rong, etc. The stage space full of meaning and the nuanced emotional observation make the whole play directly hit the pain points of life while having a long aftertaste and full of stamina.
Under still water
The drama "How Are You" focuses on three groups of daily relationships: father and daughter, husband and wife and son-in-law. Through the simple questioning of "how are you", the surface of life is revealed, and a series of suspended but sharp contradictions emerge under the calm water, control and resistance, strength and vulnerability, growth and dependence...... Is it necessarily right to use love in the name of love?
Do people live for meaning, or do they live for fun?"
He Zhuo, who was excellent in character and learning, was raised by his father alone and was placed in high hopes by his father. Her father was her guiding light, and she never lived up to his expectations. lived like this for many years, until Yu Longqi, who "lived for fun", appeared. The young He Zhuo chose love between family and love, and his father, who "lived for meaning", was so disappointed that the two broke off their relationship for 18 years.
"The value of a thing is not measured by what it gains,
Rather, it is measured by the price you pay for it. ”
During the long period of transformation from daughter to wife, He Zhuo wanted to find an opportunity to mend the father-daughter relationship more than once. After learning that her father was seriously ill, she decided to face the problem 18 years ago, put herself between her father and her husband, and strive to reconcile and maintain family relationships.
As a drama screenwriter, what I write about is people, the relationship between people, and there is also a more important relationship, that is, the relationship between people and the audience in the play. All the screenwriters have to do is to make the relationship between the people in the play real, vivid, profound, and emotional, and at the same time have a close connection with the audience, I hope that "How are you" has its unique charm in this regard, in the relationship between father and daughter, husband and wife, and the relationship between men and women...... In all these relationships, the audience can have their own empathy and association.
- Screenwriter Wan Fang
"Dear Captain, the Port Lies Ahead" On the stage of the drama "How are you", the combination of the three triangular structures changes, forming a new space from time to time, just like the relationship in the play, which is intertwined and sometimes alienated. The play also wrote the theme song based on the famous novel "Ah, Captain, My Captain!" by American poet Walt Whitman. In addition to the auditory sense, the image of the captain also looms in the form of a visual form in the stage vocabulary. "The voyage has come to an end, and our ship has passed every difficulty", whether on the stage or in life, the "captains" are all facing the truth of life, and still have their heads held high.
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Through the work "How Are You", I am exploring and practicing the infinite boundaries of theatricality in drama, practicing the exercises of theater people and theater concepts for theater audiences, and the direction of efforts. Make a theatrical work that the audience loves, that time can test, and that art can smile.
- Director Wang Keran
Drama is the laboratory of life, this sentence is deeply confirmed in "How are you", today, the values of the three life individuals around us can "Mars collide with the earth" at any time, and can the pursuit of life get rid of the brand of fate? 140 minutes of dream-making time, all the elements on the stage are dominated by action, and the audience will be presented with a fashionable, artistic, pleasing to the eye, and a profound song of life.
- Director Zhang Rui
2023 Yanghua Annual Drama Work "How Are You"
2024.01.12 - 01.14
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Screenwriter: Wan Fang
Director: Wang Keran, Zhang Rui
Cast
Tao Hui as He Zhuo
Li Zonglei as Dayu (Yu Longqi)
Fan Yinshan as He Weiping
Wang Ziwei as the little nanny
Xue Rong as the little nanny
Yin Zhihao as the singer
Wang Zixin as the singer
Yin Xiang plays the singer
Zhang Zhaoqian as the singer
Liu Haoyi as the singer
Wei Ximin as the singer
(Source: National Centre for the Performing Arts WeChat public account)