The three-year "Huitian Plan" has benefited the people and nourished the creation. On April 15, the four-act cross-talk drama "Still Beautiful", funded by the Beijing Propaganda and Culture Guidance Fund and one of the "Huitian Theme" literary and artistic creation projects of the Beijing Municipal Federation of Literature and Art, announced the main creative lineup for the first time after several months of preparation. Li Weijian, chairman of the Beijing Ququ Association, joined hands with yu Qian, a famous actor, Xu Di, a famous sketch artist, Shao Feng, and director Li Bonan, and other main creators, shaking the baggage and throwing away the highlights on the spot.
"Huitian was transformed according to the wishes of the people" has become the core of the whole drama
Starting from the Beijing Ququ Association's "squatting-point" style collection in 2019, Li Weijian led the creative team of the Beijing Ququ Association to go deep into the Huilongguan LongzeYuan, Tiantong Xiyuan and other communities, and the results have been put on the stage in the form of an evening party, and this cross-talk drama is undoubtedly a concentrated display of the three-year wind collection action. In the view of director Li Bonan, "the great era needs literary and art workers to record, what kind of posture and reverence for the stage to tell the story of Beijing, the theme of Huitian is easy to make people think of Longsugou, this play is a screenwriter, director, actor in Beijing, the beijing thing to the Audience in Beijing, there are a group of beautiful and lovely people in the play, there are sour, sweet and bitter and spiritual confusion, but they are a group of people who walk with the times." From the first day of the establishment of the group, everyone discussed a sentence: many places are planned, but the "return to heaven" is transformed according to the wishes of the people. This sentence has also become the core of the whole play.
"Still Beautiful" tells the story of wang Shoujian, the protagonist who grew up in the goldfish pond, from the dragon sugou to the goldfish pond, and then to the life change of the Huilongguan, from the noisy return to the goldfish pond to the changes brought about by the "Huitian Plan", it is said that "people have to have 'four old' leanings when they are old, have a wife at home, have a laodi in their hands, have old friends around them, and live in an old nest." The three-year plan to return to heaven made Lao Wang issue a "My old nest is more comfortable than anywhere." People are alive, really happy" sigh.
The Beiqu 82 students' class reunited after nearly 40 years of joining the group
In addition to being directed by Li Bonan, a first-class director of the National Drama Theatre, Lin Weiran, a national first-class screenwriter, a new talent in the Creative Department of the Beijing Qu Art Troupe, and the winner of the Ninth Beijing Literature and Art Award, who served as the screenwriter, starring Yu Qian, Xu Di, Shao Feng and others, there was also a major highlight of the reunion of the Beiqu 82 student class in the past 40 years since entering the school. Under the convocation of Li Weijian, Yu Qian, Wu Bin, Liu Ying, Zhang Kai, Shen Yang, Wang Shuling and other classmates played important roles in the play. According to Li Weijian, he and Yu Qian and others were the last batch of students of the Beijing Qu Art Troupe in 1982. Yu Qian said, "Next year is our 40th anniversary of joining the regiment, cooperation again, brothers together, the heart is particularly satisfied, the student class friendship is still beautiful." ”
Yu Qian, the actor of Lao Wang in the play, as a native of Beijing, in addition to his feelings for Beijing City, also has a complex for cross-talk dramas. "From the time we joined the troupe, we watched the old gentlemen perform cross-talk dramas, which were popular all over the country at that time, and our generation of music artists almost never tried, and this time being able to participate in the performance is also a kind of inheritance of this art form."
Xu Di, who has been active in film and television in recent years, is not only an actor in the Beijing Opera Troupe, but also a master sister of Yu Qian and others, "I heard that Yu Qian asked me to play a person who chased him, I was actually not confident, because I was more than ten years older than him, and now when I close my eyes, my mind is still full of what they looked like when they were a few years old..."
In addition, in addition to the natives of Beijing, there is also an important new Beijinger character in the play, Yu Qian and Xu Di said Shao Feng's name in unison. Although the character is based on the Shandong Han, Shao Feng said, "Shandong not only has Wu Song, but also Wu Dalang." Since he was in his 20s, Shao Feng has been on the drama stage for the first time, "I have been in Beijing for less than 20 years, and I am a new Beijinger, and there are many new Beijingers like me living in the Huitian area, and they also hope that Beijing is still beautiful." ”
Imitation of Mr. Lao She's "Dragon Sugou" records the era
In the past three years, the Beijing Municipal Federation of Literature and Art has organized artists in 8 literary and art disciplines, including literature, drama, photography, music, dance, music, film, and television, and launched more than ten Huitian literary and artistic creation projects. Chen Ning, secretary of the party group and executive vice chairman of the Beijing Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said, "The Huitian Plan is a typical case of urban disease management, and in the literary and artistic creation of the Huitian theme, the Qu Association is an art category with the deepest roots and the fastest results. "Still Beautiful" is modeled on Mr. Lao She's "Longsugou" to record the works of the times, hoping that the works can convey beauty to convey happiness and thinking, and also hope that ordinary people can see themselves on the stage. ”
From May 19 to 21, "Still Beautiful" will meet the audience at the Beijing Theater.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Guo Jia
Photo / Beijing Youth Daily reporter Hao Yi
Editor/Bow Lifang