What is the relationship between the classic and the present? The secret of the classic is that through each different dismantling of the present, its classicity is constantly verified. Recently, Swedish playwright August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" has been staged in two versions at the same time, one is the temple of Chinese drama, the Beijing People's Art Theatre, which staged it as the opening drama. The other, a student from the Drama Club of Fudan University, was created in 1933, and they had just finished five premieres of the play, and the response was very good. The two versions are different adaptations, with different perspectives and different ways of "deconstruction", but each has its own strengths.
Beijing Renyi's "Miss Julie" is directed by Ren Ming, the director of Renyi. The original story tells the story of the noble lady Julie who was lured by the servants to the point where she could not face it and could not escape, and finally suffered and died. In this version of "Miss Julie", the actors wear white shirts and suspender pants. It is full of psychoanalytic colors, which makes the whole play look more exploratory and mysterious, attracting the audience to establish their own clues and find the key to understanding the hearts of the characters.
"Hi, Julie" created by Fudan University Drama Club was originally the graduation work of the drama club in 2019, in this work, "Miss Julie" was put into the era of artificial intelligence, which is very futuristic. Director Xu Jiajia feels that the maid Christine in the play has a bit of AI flavor.
The story takes place in a futuristic world where purely "natural" humans are nearly extinct, edited intelligent genes are mixed with human genes, and everyone is a human-machine hybrid. In this world, people are divided into six levels according to the proportion of human genes. In this world, individuals are firmly nailed to the genetic hierarchy, intermarriage is forbidden between different hierarchies, and there is no personal freedom to speak of. Julie, a second-class aristocratic lady, did not behave in a manner similar to her identity. She flirted with the male servant and had the idea of eloping. Who knows, when agreeing on the plan, the ambition of the maid is gradually exposed, he just hopes to climb up through Julie, and Julie expects him to find a spiritual way out for himself... What amazing decisions would Julie make?
Xu Jiajia gave the script to Li, a student of Fudan Drama Society, for any adaptation. Lee any reread the script. She thought, if Miss Julie lived today, she would be eager to become an AI, right? "Just obey the 'order', don't question the meaning behind the order."
Director Xu Jiajia entered the directing department of the Shanghai Theater Academy after graduating from Fudan undergraduate, and screenwriter Li He went straight from fudan journalism school to Chinese department to continue to study creative writing. Several actors include young people who also graduated from Fudan, as well as professional actresses with rich stage experience. "Hey, Julie" was well received when it was staged on Fudan. Xu Jiajia, together with Fudan Drama Club partners Habei and Li Shiqi, zhang Luo let the play go from campus to the market.
"The play 'Miss Julie' is inexhaustible, it talks about complex human nature, about the contradictions and conflicts between people, about the huge contradictions and conflicts in people's own hearts, and also about the contradictions and conflicts between people and their own environment. These are the eternal things in the work, which are closely related to our present. Ren Ming said.
Author: Tong Weijing
Editor: Zhou Minxian