From October 16th to 17th, the stage plays "Thunderstorm" and "After thunderstorm" created by Yanghua Drama will be staged at the Qintai Grand Theatre, and the classic works of Cao Yu, Wanfang Father and Daughter and the famous European theater director Eric La Cascade will be presented to the audience in the form of a continuous stage play.
After the first round of performances in 2020, this two-year-long continuous stage drama is finally going to meet the audience in Wuhan.
Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm" and Wanfang's "After the Thunderstorm" were performed on the same stage
Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm", composed at the age of 23, was dubbed "the cornerstone of Chinese realist drama" and has been performed for nearly a hundred years. In 2020, Mr. Cao Yu's daughter playwright Wan Fang created "After thunderstorm", which not only pays attention to the exploration and restoration of the spiritual core of the original work, but also makes bold innovations in expression methods.
Stills from the drama "Thunderstorm" and "After the Thunderstorm"
The drama "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" are starred by Liu Kaiwei, He Saifei, Tong Ruimin, Kong Wei, Xu Deliang, Lu Xingchen and so on. The theater and the theater itself have a unique sense of ceremony, and the choreography of "Thunderstorm" in the afternoon and "After the Thunderstorm" in the evening also makes all audiences more immersed.
The audience needs to spend half a day to watch these two works, be mobilized from the heart outside of the life of chai rice oil and salt, harvest their own unique life experience and the empathy of living in the present, insight into the classic transcendent time and space and closely related to the basic characteristics of human nature.
The time and space of Eastern and Western cultures collide with a new artistic spark
"Thunderstorm" has not only endured on the domestic stage, but also brought many inspirations to foreign artists. It is said to be the most translated Chinese drama of all Chinese.
This time, The European super-first-line theater director Eric Lacascade and the Chinese team directed the stage dramas "Thunderstorm" and "After the Thunderstorm", which is the first time that a foreign director has directed this classic work in China, and has breakthrough innovations in stage design, directing techniques and stage scheduling.
The most eye-catching thing is that the visual presentation of the overall stage does not adopt the traditional Chinese family-style design, but uses a simple and fashionable style to create three environments in "Thunderstorm" in which the Zhou family, the Lu family and the Zhou family in "Thunderstorm " both point to the original works and are full of modernity, which is a model of a collision of Chinese and foreign cultures.
Actors from the drama bone to the new generation
Extremely staged
"Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" gathered more than a dozen actors from the drama bone to the new generation: Liu Kaiwei as Zhou Ping, He Saifei as Lu Shuping, Shi Xu and Kong Wei as Xuan Yi, Tong Ruimin and Yan Nan as Zhou Puyuan, Xu Deliang as Lu Gui, Lu Xingchen as Sifeng, Li Zonglei as Lu Dahai, and young actors Luo Yongjuan, Liu Encheng, Ding Yang, Wang Zizhuo, Zhang Heqin, Sui Guo, and Shi Wanchuan.
Previously, on the stage of the premiere, they jointly presented a group portrait full of stage charm, and the audience responded enthusiastically. In one of the passages where Lu Dahai came to the Zhou family to ask for salary and clashed with Zhou Ping, the performances of several leading actors were linked up and down the stage, and even there were performances in the audience, which attracted the attention of the audience.
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What story is this drama telling?
Synopsis of "Thunderstorm"
Zhou Puyuan, the lord of the Zhou Mansion, thought that he had the supreme authority and controlled the order of the Zhou family, but his wife XuanYi was full of resentment towards him in her heart, and had a relationship with Zhou Ping, the eldest son of Zhou Puyuan, who was not born to her, but Zhou Ping intended to get rid of the relationship. Zhou Chong, the son born to Xuan Yi, was young and simple, and fell in love with the maid Si Feng of the Zhou family, but Si Feng fell in love with a man who should not be loved. Si Feng's brother Lu Dahai, a worker in the Zhou Puyuan Mine, was bullied because of the strike as a worker representative who came to the Zhou Mansion. Lu Dahai and Si Feng's mother Shi Ping were once maids of the Zhou family, and the arrival of Shi Ping revealed the secrets of the Zhou family, whether it was the family or the family, all the contradictions broke out on the night of the thunderstorm, and the tragedy could not be stopped...
Synopsis of "After Thunderstorm"
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.
Show Time:
October 16, 2021 2 performances
Thunderstorm 14:30 After Thunderstorm 19:30
October 17, 2021 2 performances
fare
880/680/480/380/280/180/100 yuan
(The specific arrangement of the performance is subject to the latest information of the Qintai Grand Theatre.) ）
(Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client production editor integration: Fu Ying Source: Qintai Grand Theater WeChat public account, Beijing Poly Theater Management Co., Ltd. website)
【Editor: He Equation】