At 21:20 on October 1, Oriental Satellite TV will broadcast a special program on National Day - the live-action Haipai comedy "The Laughter of Shikumen".
Set against the backdrop of Shikumen, a symbol of Shanghai, the show combines a traditional Shanghai one-legged play with a Xinhai comedy, starring "Adego" Mao Mengda and his old partner Shen Ronghai. The drama will start from the four aspects of the people's "food, clothing, housing and transportation", vividly interpreting how Shanghai has transformed into today's financial center and international city over the past 40 years of reform and opening up.
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This special program will be the burlesque "talking and singing" in the form of television, situationalization, in the one-hour program will appear seven to eight sitcoms, and like crosstalk, like sketches, like TV series, and like small movies.
The program will be based on the offline theater "Laughter of Shikumen" and integrate the traditional Shanghai burlesque actors and Newcomers of Haipai Comedy to perform together, from the past to the future, leading the new trend of Haipai comedy and creating a new vane of Haipai culture.
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The one-legged show highlights Shanghai culture, Shanghai manufacturing, Shanghai service, Shanghai shopping, Shanghai's "four brands", concerned about the people's food, clothing, housing and travel aspects.
In the Shanghai dialect performance clip about "living in Shikumen", the actors perform relaxed and natural, "eating crab without ginger, things have to be stiff", "eating crab without sugar, the heart is empty", in vivid and popular language interprets the warm story of Shanghai neighbors helping each other, borrowing vinegar, ginger and sugar to enjoy hairy crabs; "Crabs in Suzhou Creek, soaking in Yangcheng Lake, this is 'bath crab'", and the neighbors humorously discuss the characteristics of Suzhou Lake and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs. It is reported that the Shanghainese language will run through the performance of Mao Mengda and Shen Ronghai, and the homely dialogue language not only reveals the original life atmosphere of Shanghai Well, but also shows the charm of the shencheng regional dialect.
The changes in the costumes in the "Clothes" fragment vividly reflect the details and changes in the lives of Shanghai citizens. From the style renovation of the women's cheongsam after the reform and opening up discussed by the actors, to the humorous passages about the current trend of "Huating silk, beautiful silk, polyester sticky silk, polyester silk" and one-step skirts, mini skirts, etc., a costume history is a silhouette of the changes and development of shanghai people's lives; and trendy cultural elements such as cosplay collide with the traditional Shanghai one-legged play and Shikumen background, and this tension collision also coincides with Shanghai's vibrant, diverse and inclusive urban temperament.
The "food" segment highlights the optimistic and positive style of the times, "Jiading grapes, Songjiang perch, Zhujiajiao's hoof fat, Nanxiang's small cage", the actor uses Shanghai special food as a guide, humorously ridicules the expression of the word "eat" in Shanghai, such as "eating the head of the row" means to be criticized by the leader; and in the "line" clip, the actor comments on social hot spots such as the traffic jam phenomenon in Shanghai in fresh and hot language, giving full play to the characteristics of burlesque play that pays attention to reality and is flexible and flexible.
The misunderstanding caused by the "eat chicken" game caused by the "play" clip reflects the different reactions of different generations to new things, and the parents think that their son said "eat chicken" (note: video game) is to eat chicken, so they asked their son, "Do you like to eat old hens or baby chickens?" Do you prefer chicken with shallot oil or hand-torn chicken? The discussion of popular terms in contemporary life such as "planting grass" and "pulling grass" also reflects the increasingly colorful consumer life of the people in Shanghai, the fashion capital.
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Since its premiere in September 2018, the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" has been performed more than 100 times offline, accumulating nearly 100,000 audiences, and this special program is boldly innovating on the basis of the original repertoire, showing Shanghai's urban scenery and urban changes through live-action shooting, music interpretation and other attempts, and exploring the blood of Shanghai.
This show broke the studio recording model, interpreted the classic Shencheng story in Shanghai Fengxian, and created a TV program different from the theater "Laughter of Shikumen"; the joining of the newcomers to Shanghai culture has helped the youthful presentation of Shanghai's regional culture, and Zhang Yu, the champion of the fourth season of "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu" and a Shanghai cross-talk actor, will also play the son of "Brother Arde" in the sitcom.
In addition to the form of interpretation, music is also a new highlight of this special program. The opening scene is led by music, adding the sound of shouting and selling left in the last century and the sound elements of modern urban life, and the two protagonists interpret the scene of Shikumen morning and string together into a "Shikumen Concerto". Nostalgia and modernity are intertwined, years of precipitation and metamorphosis and development are integrated, and the concerto plays a role in "finishing touch".
Haipai writer Jin Yucheng believes that
"Details are subtle histories of the times", Shikumen is a miniature model of the city of Shanghai, silently recording the changes of Shencheng in the torrent of the times over the past hundred years.
"The Laughter of Shikumen" starts from the side of ordinary citizens, whether it is the neighbors in Shikumen eating hairy crabs, or the qipao with constantly renovated styles, the work shows the trajectory and direction of Shanghai along the way. How Shanghai has evolved from a Shanghai beach attached to the water town of Jiangnan to today's financial center, an international city, and over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, its three-hundred-and-sixty-degree all-round economic development from hardware to software, from financial trade to cultural life, its ever-changing changes and the magnificent blueprint that can be expected in the future, have been told by the pair of "famous mouths".
The laughter of Shikumen belongs to the laughter of the people of Shanghai, which nourishes them with water and soil, and the Shanghainese who live and struggle here use the unique humorous language of Haipai to record this era and inherit the urban context. In the tide of the times, Shikumen embraced change with an open heart and played a new Haipai Concerto.
<h4>The National Day special program "Laughter of Shikumen" will land on Oriental Satellite TV at 21:20 on October 1, so stay tuned. </h4>
Source: Thoughtful