Speaking of Lin Zhaohua, a famous contemporary Chinese theater director, many audiences are very familiar with it. But many people do not know that Lin Zhaohua's family of four graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, Lin Zhaohua is a big director who graduated from Chinese opera, his wife He Bingzhu is a professor of Chinese opera and former vice president of the Central Academy of Drama, and their sons and daughters Lin Cong and Lin Xiyue, one working in Beijing Renyi and the other in the National Drama Theatre, are also talents who can both act and direct.
Some people once joked that they should hold an invitation exhibition of "Lin Family Shop" for this drama home and exhibit the works of their family of four at the same time, which is believed to be very popular.
Recently, the first issue of "Shang Shu" of "Classic China" with Lin Xiyue as the theater director was well received after being broadcast on CCTV, and the small theater drama "My Poor Marat" directed by Lin Cong will also be performed at the Renyi Experimental Theater in the near future. Lin Zhaohua's children are showing their talents in a completely different style from their fathers, and also bringing more surprises and expectations to the audience.
"Romeo" falls in love with "Wet Mother"
Everyone respects director Lin Zhaohua as the "big director", but Lin Zhaohua gave himself the nickname of "fart curtain director". He said that his family did not have a drama gene, but they all loved to watch drama. Lin Zhaohua's father can play strings and drums and likes to rap and sing with friends; Lin Zhaohua's mother likes to watch plays, and Beijing opera and commentaries love to watch, so he has watched a lot of plays since he was a child. After watching a Beijing Renyi's "Camel Xiangzi", he was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama as a recording assistant at the Bayi Factory. The graduation drama rehearsal "Romeo and Juliet", he also played the male protagonist Romeo. Because of his outstanding performance, he was favored by the famous director Xia Chun of the human art and selected into the human art.
In this "Romeo and Juliet", "Romeo" Lin Zhaohua likes not the heroine "Juliet", but the classmate He Bingzhu who plays "Wet Mother". Lin Zhaohua said: "In the class, my favorite is He Bingzhu, who plays the wet nurse. She graduated from high school and was directly admitted to the Chinese opera, but she was the most prominent performer in the class. She comes from a big family, is not proud and complacent, and has a good voice image. ”
After graduating from Chinese opera, He Bingzhu directly stayed in the school as a teacher, and later became a graduate tutor, department head, and vice dean, and trained many star actors such as Jiang Wen, Lü Liping, Chen Jianbin, Wang Xuebing, Li Yapeng, etc. Lin Zhaohua felt "pity" for his lover: "If she is in the troupe, she is likely to be a pillar!" ”
But Lin Zhaohua has little confidence in his performance: "In fact, I am sloppy, often cold, and my voice is not good, that is, I am a tall point, and I am picked up by people, of course, I am willing to go." At that time, there were no young actors in the art, so I acted in a lot of plays. One of the North Korean dramas", "The Red Propagandist", so the teacher played my father, and I didn't dare to watch him on stage. Ren yi had the heart to cultivate me and gave me a particularly good opportunity, but it was ruined by me. ”
In 1963, Beijing Renyi rehearsed a national performance play "Fenshui Changliu", which made him play the first male protagonist, the secretary of the rural branch, "What a good opportunity! Unfortunately, I didn't act well, I couldn't explode when I needed passion, my voice was not good, my lines were even more lacking in kung fu, and I didn't have a peasant temperament. Later, when Zhao Qiyang was the secretary of the Party Committee and vice president of Beijing Renyi, he gave Lin Zhaohua the opportunity to be a director. Lin Zhaohua said with deep gratitude in his book "The Director's Book": "All my life I have been grateful to Zhao Qiyang, and it is he who has fulfilled my wish to be a director. As an actor, my voice conditions are not good, and my fate is in the control of others. The choices and opportunities on the road of life are not only a great accident, but also the call of fate. ”
I didn't want children, but I gave birth to two theater workers
Lin Zhaohua and He Bingzhu married in 1964, and the wedding was held at the Central Academy of Drama, and the wedding was presided over by Yan Zheng, the head of the Chinese Opera Performance Department. Originally, the two families did not want children for the sake of their careers. But because they said during the Cultural Revolution that "drama is dead," they decided to have children anymore, and as a result, two more drama workers were born in the family—Lin Cong, a daughter who graduated from the Chinese Opera Directing Department and worked in Beijing Renyi, and Lin Xiyue, a son who graduated from the Chinese Opera Acting Department and worked at the National Theatre of China.
When Lin Cong and Lin Xiyue were just born, Lin Zhaohua and He Bingzhu's salaries were only about 50 yuan, and they were bent on their careers, they had no time to take care of their children, and they all relied on the children's grandmother to bring them up. The children grew up and fell in love with art. Lin Zhaohua and He Bingzhu originally did not want their children to go to the Chinese opera, but Lin Cong and Lin Xiyue both went to the exam. Today, both sisters and brothers have successful careers, and they have also established a family and have children. This made Lin Zhaohua and He Bingzhu, who became grandparents and grandparents, feel very satisfied: "What a person wants to do is happy." ”
The great guide's kennaisuke, the great master's mentor
On weekdays, He Bingzhu is very low-key, always standing next to Lin Zhaohua and taking care of the director, and it is impossible to see that she is the Bole who has discovered and cultivated many big-name actors.
At that time, as the class teacher of the "Xinjiang class", she took Chen Jianbin, Wang Xuebing, Li Yapeng and a group of children from Xinjiang to watch dramas and teach them to perform by hand. Li Yapeng refused to crawl under the crotches of everyone in the performance class of liberating nature, and it was Teacher He Bingzhu who secretly handed him a handkerchief to wipe his tears. After graduating from the undergraduate degree in Chinese opera, Chen Jianbin returned to his hometown Xinjiang Repertory Theatre, with a monthly salary of 300 yuan, a confused future, and a troubled heart, and the teacher He Bingzhu, who had always been worried about him, said to him: "You come to test my graduate school", let him return to Chinese opera to study graduate school and start a new life. Wang Xuebing still remembers that Teacher He Bingzhu taught him a "very important thing", "She said that you go to judge whether a performance is true or false, as long as you listen to whether the person is talking with anger, all the people who talk with anger must be fake." This has had a big impact on me. She taught us that it has to be true, either true or wrong. Ren Ming, the current dean of Beijing Renyi, was also recommended by He Bingzhu to be an assistant director for Lin Zhaohua during his internship after graduating from Chinese opera, and later Lin Zhaohua suggested to Renyi that renming be retained.
Although he is now over eighty years old, He Bingzhu has always loved to watch drama. He often drives a "big ben" tricycle, brings Lin Zhaohua, a "big director" in his 80s, to the theater and parties with young friends. Perhaps because of growing up in such a family with love and fun, Lin Xiyue and Lin Cong's personalities are very sunny and easy-going. One liked crosstalk when he was a child, one grew up directing comedies, and both sisters and brothers liked to make everyone laugh and were willing to bring joy to everyone.
The family has children, one makes comedy, one loves crosstalk
On March 12, Beijing Renyi's first small theater play of the year, "My Poor Marat", will be staged at the Renyi Experimental Theater, directed by Lin Cong.
This is Lin Cong's first time directing a drama work, but before that, she has become a household name for many works as a director, screenwriter and actress. She is one of the directors of China's first sitcom "I Love My Home", and also made six cameo roles in the play; she is also the director of the "Family with Children" series of sitcoms, which not only won the popularity of Zhang Yishan, Yang Zi, Gao Yalin and other actors, but also won the first prize of the 26th TV Drama Feitian Award for Children's TV Series and the 7th Golden Eagle Festival Best Children's TV Series Award; she also participated in the filming of many sitcoms such as "Idle Horse Sister" and "The Story of the Waiting Room". And directed the first film and television work written by Ning Caishen, "The Networm Diary". All along, she has explored the essence of life with a keen perspective, presented the culture of the city in a humorous and witty way, condensed the trivialities of life with joy, and brought joy and laughter to the audience.
Lin Cong has always been very supportive of her father's theatrical career, not only has she seen every work of her father Lin Zhaohua, but also participated in the performance of "Three Sisters Waiting for Godot". Lin Zhaohua did not have funds to establish the drama invitation exhibition that year, and Lin Cong sponsored the first Lin Zhaohua drama invitation exhibition at his own expense. This time, Lin Cong finally directed the drama, and after Lin Zhaohua knew, he just "Oh" a sound. Lin Cong has not yet thought about whether to ask her father to see it when she premieres, she said that her directing style will not be as avant-garde as her father's work, "I am still more traditional, and this work is also more realistic." ”
Like his sister Lin Cong, Lin Xiyue is also very supportive of his father, not only watching every play of Lin Zhaohua, but also participating in many plays directed by Lin Zhaohua, and rearranging Lin Zhaohua's classic play "Three Sisters Waiting for Godot". In 2019, he took over as the artistic director of Lin Zhaohua's drama invitational exhibition, hoping to continue to hold the only folk drama invitational exhibition in China named after an individual.
Lin Zhaohua and Lin Xiyue father and son
However, Lin Xiyue admitted frankly, "Perhaps in other professions, there is a so-called 'inheritance' problem between father and son, but the art industry relies on feelings." Our grandfather also said that this thing is innate, you are doing this is doing this, you are not doing this, no matter how good your heart and eyes are, no matter how good you are to people, it is useless. Because you're not the material! ”
When Lin Xiyue applied for the Chinese drama examination that year, he wanted to take the directing department, but the directing department did not enroll students in the year of the examination, so he entered the acting department. After graduating from Chinese opera and entering the theater, just in time for the period of special depression in drama, Lin Xiyue ran dragon sets in the troupe every day, and there was a crisis in spirit and economy, which was very depressed. In 1995, he earned 10 yuan for a play, and even the rent was not enough for a month. In order to support his family, he began to gradually get involved in the film and television circle, acting in many film and television dramas with good reputation. When the economic conditions permitted, he still chose to return to the theatrical stage and continue to act and direct plays.
In addition to cooperating with his father, Lin Xiyue has also cooperated with different directors such as Li Liuyi, Meng Jinghui, and Guo Shixing, he said: "To do our business, we need to put down a lot of our own inherent things and become an open person. At that time, the old man was to accommodate Baichuan, and he felt that what people said was interesting, and he absorbed it. ”
Lin Xiyue, who has a handsome image of thick eyebrows and big eyes, has good conditions as an actor, he likes to perform because the stage is attractive to him, "especially wants to breathe with the audience on the stage"; but he is also willing to be a director, because he has the desire to express and the ability to express. Tian Qinxin, the new director of the National Drama Theatre, admired his talent and character, and recommended him to serve as the director of the drama "China in the Classics", which really lived up to expectations, and the response after the first issue of "Shang Shu" was launched was enthusiastic.
Compared with the strong personality of his father Lin Zhaohua, Lin Xiyue's personality is more cheerful and easy-going. When he was a child, he liked cross-talk, and he had nothing to do with the old artist's paragraphs, and he played with his classmates to show everyone. He said that he was a "sunny person" and "I think human beings should be loving, and I believe that human beings are inherently good, and that is something that can definitely touch the bottom of people's hearts." Many of the works I like are with a strong sense of goodwill, the kind of warmth after reading, which is a human thing. ”
Reporter/Wang Run
Source/Beijing Daily client
Editor/Ying Qiao