Although "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" is an Internet celebrity drama in recent years, in fact, the age of this drama is not small, from the first performance in 1986 to the present, it has been nearly 40 years, in these decades, there are about three more classic versions born: one is the 1992 film version starring Lin Qingxia, Jin Shijie and others; the second is the mainland version starring Huang Lei, He Jiong and others in 2006, also called the star version; the third is the exclusive version staged by Shanghai Lai Shengchuan Theater. The three versions have their own advantages in performance, but the plot and lines are basically the same, I am watching the exclusive version of lai shengchuan theater, so the following descriptions are all based on the exclusive version as an example.
In recent years, due to the blessing of stars, this internet celebrity drama has been frequently searched for, and its audience among young people is extremely wide. Among them, the star effect of Huang Lei, He Jiong and others is important, but I think the extremely high artistry of the work itself is the fundamental reason for its wide acclaim. In my opinion, the charm of this play lies mainly in its ingenious structural design, highly condensed theatrical language and rich detail presentation. The specific performance is as follows:
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > exquisite symmetrical structure</h1>
"Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" actually tells two stories - "Crush" and "Peach Blossom Garden", which is a play within a play! Due to the mistakes of the theater, the rehearsal venue was rented to both the "Crush" and "Peach Blossom Garden" crews at the same time, which made the two crews have to take turns rehearsing, and finally even shared the stage to rehearse at the same time.
"Crush" is a love tragedy that takes place in modern times. The male protagonist Jiang Binliu and the female protagonist Yun Zhifan fell in love during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and after the victory of the war, Yun Zhifan wanted to return to his hometown in Yunnan to visit his relatives, and before leaving, the two happily looked forward to a better life in the future in Shanghai's Bund Park, and exchanged heartfelt words and cherished each other. Originally thought that this was only a short separation, but did not expect that the next outbreak of civil war will make the two people go their separate ways from this day, Jiang Binliu finally settled in Taiwan, married and had children, but never forgot Yun Zhifan, until many years later, cross-strait relations eased, Jiang Binliu published a notice in the newspaper to look for Yun Zhifan, and finally the two were able to reunite in front of Jiang Binliu's sickbed, but it was already a thing and a person.
And "Peach Blossom Garden" is an absurd comedy that takes place in ancient times. Wuling's fishing man Lao Tao, his career failed, and his marriage was unhappy. A big fish can't be hit, and he also suffers from a male hidden disease, so he often suffers from the scolding of his wife Chunhua, and his life is a mess. And recently he found that his wife was cheating with Boss Yuan, which made him more painful and depressed, so he went upstream to try to play a few big fish to prove to Chunhua, but mistakenly entered the peach blossom source of "delicious herbs and colorful fallen" (here is a careful machine, old Tao, Chunhua, And Boss Yuan's names are just the harmonic sound of "Peach Blossom Source").
In the peach blossom garden, he met two people whose appearance and spring flowers, Boss Yuan are exactly the same, but their personalities are completely different, they have a peaceful personality, gentle, and the mantra is "put ~ ~ light ~ ~ song ~ ~". As a result, Lao Tao soon became good friends with them, and the three of them played in the wild every day, catching bees and butterflies, so unhappy! But Lao Tao was still relieved about the spring flowers at home, decided to go back to see, and when he returned home, he was surprised to find that Chunhua had already lived with Boss Yuan, but he was not happy, but he kept arguing all day long because of trivial things, repeating his life like Chunhua before.
In addition to the two parallel main lines of "Crush" and "Peach Blossom Garden", the drama also has a dark line that runs through the whole process, that is, every time the two crews rehearse, they will jump out to find Liu Ziji's crazy woman. From beginning to end, Liu Ziji only smelled his name, not his people, and the whole drama did not introduce this line too much.
In this way, "Crush" and "Peach Blossom Garden" tell two completely different stories, and the crazy woman looking for Liu Ziji is even more inexplicable, but this is not the case. Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Origin" we have all memorized the full text, which has a description of Liu Ziji: "Nanyang Liu Ziji, a noble scholar, smelled it and gladly went there." Unsuccessful, looking for the end of the disease", and this sentence is exactly the key to connecting the whole story, whether it is "Crush" or "Peach Blossom Garden", or the crazy woman looking for Liu Ziji, in fact, it is a story that cannot be sought!
This is especially evident in the third part of the play. In the second half of the play, the two crews decided to divide the stage into two, one left and one right, and rehearsed at the same time, but they did not expect that the lines of the two completely different plays could actually be put together. The spring flowers in the peach blossom garden asked Lao Tao: "Is it not good here, why do you want to go back?" Jiang Binliu, who was lying on the hospital bed, replied, "I just want to see her again." The spring flowers in the peach blossom garden said, "But maybe it may not be what you think." "The lines between the two crews respond to each other, without any abruptness, doesn't it just show that the two not only have a common stage, but also have a common theme?
The two stories of "Crush" and "Peach Blossom Garden" have achieved the interlacing and unity of time and space through the booking of the same rehearsal venue, and this ingenious setting. One present and one ancient, one sad and one happy, one quiet and one noisy, such a contrasting presentation method itself has a strong conflict, so that the audience's emotions fluctuate with the two crews taking turns to appear, laughing with tears. However, under the coat of strong contrast, the same theme is wrapped, which gives people a sense of peak circuit and sudden openness like a peach blossom source. The design technique of this drama is ingenious and the imagination is rich, which is really amazing!
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > stage details</h1>
Unlike when watching TV at home, going to dinner and coming back to pick up again, drama due to its limited performance space and time, so the language of drama has a high degree of condensation, sometimes an action of the actor, a beam of lights on the stage, may represent a thousand words in the author's heart. This requires the audience to pay full attention when enjoying the drama, not to let go of every detail on the stage, a little inattention may miss a small foreshadowing designed by the creators. At the same time, the excavation of the details of the drama also requires some imagination of the audience, the same work, different audiences can interpret different interests, I think this is also one of the charms of the drama.
"Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" is a work that does a very good job in detail and metaphor. Here are two examples that impressed me. When the two dramas rehearsed their last scenes, the "Crush" crew could not find the prop door of JiangBinliu's ward until Yun Zhifan finally met JiangBinliu, and this door was also found, which implied that JiangBinliu had been unable to distinguish the boundary between the past and reality before this, and indulged in the obsession of the past. And now that Yun Zhifan had come, the door was closed, and he finally realized that Mrs. Jiang, who had been with him all along, was the person he cherished the most.
The prop door that appears with Yun Zhifan
In order to show the effect of "leaving blank" that the director wanted, the crew of "Peach Blossom Garden" produced a non-trivial peach blossom forest background board that was missing in the middle. This background board is not only a laughing point, but also a metaphorical point, symbolizing the old pottery that mistakenly entered the peach blossom source, because the heart is worried about the spring flowers at home, so the heart is also like this background board, there is a defect. This flawed background board was moved to the stage as Lao Tao entered the peach blossom garden, and was gradually filled by the staff as Lao Tao decided to go home. In the end, Lao Tao returned to his hometown in Wuling, but what he saw was a field of chicken feathers, and at the same time, this background board was also filled, but the piece on the back patch was more abrupt.
As you can see from this still, someone will patch up the background board later
At this point, the story of "Peach Blossom Garden", because Lao Tao is determined to leave Taohuayuan to make up for the regrets in his heart, comedy becomes tragedy; the story of "Crush" is due to Jiang Binliu finally letting go of the obsession in his heart, tragedy becomes comedy, and once again forms a symmetrical structure of two main lines echoing each other, and jointly completes the sublimation of the theme. So how to face the regret of "not being able to ask" in life? I think in this series of metaphors and hints, the answer is ready to come out, and this is the value that I have always agreed with, that is, Tong Xiangyu is right!
All in all, "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" is a very creative and rich and thought-provoking drama. In addition, shanghai's upper theater is lai shengchuan exclusive theater, which will be staged all year round, and it is very convenient to see it, so it is highly recommended for you to go and watch it. I wish you all a pleasant viewing of the show!
That's all! Peace&Love
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