On September 8th, beijing renyi's new version of "Thunderstorm", director Pu Cunxin and the main creators attended the media meeting. Photo by Shi Chunyang
Beijing, September 8 (China News Network) (Reporter Gao Kai) "Endless Cao Yu, inexhaustible "Thunderstorm"" After "Sunrise", the second new row of dramas "Thunderstorm" after the opening of the Beijing International Drama Center is about to debut.
On September 8, directors Pu Cunxin and Tang Ye led the stars Gong Lijun, Bai Hui, Li Hongtao, Wang Junqi, Chen Hongxu, Xu Du, Li Jingxu, Xie Tian, Yang Qifang, Guo Wei, Shi Yunpeng, Liang Guodong, Li Jintao and other media to interpret the significance of this new row of classics and take the audience to "open the code of Mr. Cao Yu's wisdom".
On September 8, Beijing Renyi's new version of "Thunderstorm", director Pu Cunxin (middle) and co-director Tang Ye (right) and shen Peiyi (left) were watching the row. Photo by Shi Chunyang
Dig deeper into the script again and explore the spirit of the original work
As a well-known classic, "Thunderstorm" has been put on the stage again, which is another return to the classic for Beijing Renyi.
"Cao Yu, who can't finish talking, can't perform the endless "Thunderstorm". This time, we went back from the text to the original unredacted script in 1934, found the freshest and most original expression of Mr. Cao Yu that year, and excavated the original intention. Find action in literature, find stories, and let the audience see that there are many very interesting and possible differences from previous cognitions in familiar stories. Pu Cunxin, who served as the director this time, said.
He believes that for the main creator, the new row of "Thunderstorm" should not only tell a good story, but also reflect the author's humanistic care and deep excavation of human nature. Through the excavation of the details of the script, to establish and explain the relationship between the characters, let the audience more deeply feel the sympathy and compassion of the author behind the story.
On September 8, Beijing Renyi's new version of "Thunderstorm", actor Wang Junqi, who played Zhou Ping, and Bai Hui, who played Fangyi, were in a row. Photo by Shi Chunyang
The combination of virtual and real, enriching the stage performance
"'I'm writing a poem, not a social problem drama,'" Mr. Cao Yu once said." Tang Ye, who is the director with Pu Cunxin this time, believes that the poetic expression on the stage is the core of this reinterpretation of the classic. "After literature became drama, Mr. Cao Yu's poetry runs through it." The new row of "Thunderstorm" will also emphasize the poetic expression on the stage.
According to reports, the play will not only present the family scene of the Zhou Mansion through the romantic and freehand stage design, but also use the combination of virtual and real to make the real characters and the characters in the memories interspersed, and complete the unique narrative of the drama stage between time and space.
"The flashes of Shi Ping and Zhou Puyuan on the stage thirty years ago take the audience to find fragments of memory." Pu Cunxin told the creative concept: on the one hand, it used symbolic techniques to set off the atmosphere of the characters and the plot; on the other hand, it was bold to leave blank space, and use a narrative method with clear lines to simplify the complex and simplify, leaving the audience with more space for thinking.
The "new lineup" of new and old stages and role replacement
Audiences familiar with Beijing's art are not difficult to find that the new row of "Thunderstorm" has also made a new attempt in the cast arrangement: Pu Cunxin has been "upgraded" from the former young master Zhou Ping to the old master Zhou Puyuan, Gong Lijun has changed from the classic Xuanyi in the audience's mind to Lu Ma, Bai Hui has changed from Sifeng to play Xuanyi, and Li Hongtao has played Lu Gui. Compared with the old version of "Thunderstorm", such a role adjustment is not only a challenge to the actors, but also a re-excavation and renewal of the characters in the play.
As a director, Pu Cunxin is very sure of the ability of young actors to shape, "they may not be the type we define in the traditional sense, such as Sifeng will be more simple, Zhou Ping will be with some cowardice, these characteristics are deliberately designed and required, so that the audience can more intuitively and clearly understand who they are, where they come from, and what kind of life they have had." ”
For the role replacement of several actors, including himself and Gong Lijun, Pu Cunxin bluntly said that it is a new challenge, "Our interpretation this time is completely new, and the actors need to make breakthroughs, not only new roles, but also a new understanding of the classics." ”
A new interpretation, a new lineup, and a different "Thunderstorm" will be officially met with the audience at the Cao Yu Theater of the Beijing International Theater Center on September 24, Cao Yu's birthday. (End)
Source: China News Network