"Heavy rain cannot be crushed, the wind cannot be destroyed, and I have ambitions in my heart to be far away, I want to fly forward..." Recently, the melodious song of the national opera "Poverty Alleviation Road" resounded throughout the Shanghai Grand Theatre. At the end of the performance, the audience walked out of the door and were still enthusiastically discussing the protagonist prototype Huang Wenxiu, "amazing" and "powerful girl". On the same weekend, kunqu opera "Jujiang City" was staged at the Experimental Theater of Shanghai Theater Academy, focusing on ordinary people in the epidemic and telling contemporary stories with ancient Kunqu opera, attracting many curious opera lovers. "As literary and art workers, we have the responsibility to paint a portrait of the times, to establish a biography for the times, and to create a moral for the times." The words of Shi Xiaming, the star of "Jiang Jiang Cheng", represent the voice of all the cast members of the crew who participated in the Shanghai exhibition of the excellent new stage work "Art Rising Forward". Creative Style Favorites to Ask" What do you think?" In order to create "Poverty Alleviation Road", director Tian Qinxin and his crew colleagues traveled to 21 places in 7 days. In the depths of the mountains of Guangxi, she met young poverty alleviation cadres, many from famous universities such as Tsinghua University, "The sentence we ask the most is, 'What do you think?'" The process of creating "Poverty Alleviation Road" lasted two years, and the main creative team went deep into Guangxi Baise several times to collect wind and repeatedly adjust the script. In mid-June 2019, the script of "Poverty Alleviation Road" was finalized. Almost at the same time, the bad news of Huang Wenxiu's unfortunate death came from Guangxi. The creator then rushed to Bose. "Arriving at the site of Huang Wenxiu's death is the 10th day of her sacrifice." Tian Qinxin recalled, "The car drove for 4 hours on the mountain road, the mudslide has not yet receded, and her colleagues are crying. The crew wanted to go to the place where Huang Wenxiu worked, and encountered a landslide, "The car could not pass, all the staff put on rain boots, abandoned the car and went." Huang Wenxiu, a Zhuang girl from Tianyang County, Baise County, Guangxi, graduated from Beijing Normal University in 2016 and resolutely chose to return to the rural grassroots of Baise and became the first secretary of Baixiao Village. In one year and two months, she visited more than 100 poor households and established three thick poor household files and diaries, which recorded in detail the structure of poor households, the degree of poverty, and the possibility of transformation. With the joint efforts of her and the two village committees, at the end of 2018, 88 of the 103 poor households in Baixiao Village were successfully lifted out of poverty, and the incidence of poverty dropped from 22.88% to 2.71%. "Some people think that it is a highly educated female cadre gilded, but this is not the case at all. Poverty alleviation is the invisible work of silent dedication, and only when you visit the field can you know the hardships and greatness of the poverty alleviation cadres. Deep into the mountains, Tian Qinxin and the crew of "On the Road to Poverty Alleviation" embarked on the road that Huang Wenxiu walked, "Doing more than a hundred poor household files, it seems that there are not many." However, the homes of mountain residents are not like urban communities, which can be reached in a few steps. Each of them is separated by miles of mountain roads. Tian Qinxin met people who Huang Wenxiu helped, "collective road construction and development of e-commerce, each household has a different targeted poverty alleviation policy, some people rely on silkworms, some people rely on planting oranges, completely get rid of poverty, they mention Huang Wenxiu and shed tears." In Guangxi, Tian Qinxin met countless young people like Huang Wenxiu who came from big cities to remote rural areas, and a poverty alleviation cadre from Tsinghua University was particularly impressed by her," he showed me a photo of himself volunteering at the Beijing Olympic Games, a white and clean young man, and the black and thin appearance in front of him was like two people. The crew asked the old question: "What do you think about coming here?" The young man replied, "My grandfather experienced the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, my father experienced reform and opening up, and my life should have more value and dedication in addition to the Olympic Games." When leaving, Tian Qinxin looked back at the black mountain, "The scenery is really beautiful, poor is really poor, to get rid of the beautiful barrenness, you need to have a high IQ and a broad vision of contemporary young people." Coincidentally, the sisters in the color tune drama "New Liu Sanjie", Ah Lang and Mo Fei are three typical examples: a girl who stays in her hometown and cares for a distant place, a young man who bids farewell to her hometown and goes to a distant place to find poetry, and an e-commerce company that inserts fashion wings for mountain songs, interpreting the adherence of contemporary Zhuangxiang people to mountain songs, the love for the green mountains and rivers of their hometown, and the pursuit of a better life. Shanghai Yue Theater's original drama on the theme of poverty alleviation, "Deep Feelings of Mountains and Seas", is about Shanghai designers helping the development of bamboo weaving in the countryside of Miaozhai in Guizhou. Xu Jie plays Jiang Dahai, a poverty alleviation cadre in Shanghai, whose exclamation is simple and realistic, "I am tired of walking 10,000 steps a day, Jiang Dahai walks 30,000 steps a day, or walking in the mountains." Xu Jie reminded himself to "receive" the performance, "Sometimes when we sing, we 'click' in the eyes of the audience, which is a little too high." Poverty alleviation cadres must have a heart, but I don't want to be too hard and too contrived, then it is not cute. In the exhibition, there are solid poverty alleviation stories, tear-jerking, and there are also works that pick up regional cultural characteristics, arouse the curiosity of the audience with the help of beautiful melodies, and contribute to the cause of cultural tourism. Focusing on the creation of "Splendid China , Drinking The National Music Scene of the Yangtze River Water Together", the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra has buckled the theme of "poverty alleviation" since last year, and planned to select musical elements from Hubei, Chongqing, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Tibet, Qinghai, Guizhou and other shanghai counterpart support areas to collect and create styles. Bamboo flute, Zamunian and the orchestra "Jiangyuan String Song" depict the natural wonders and humanistic features of Qinghai, the source of the Three Rivers, with a musical language full of national characteristics; Yueqin, Marimba and plucked band work "Caiyun Youyou" integrates a variety of Yunnan ethnic minority music styles to outline the romantic wonderland of the south of Caiyun; The lusheng, sheng and band works "Red Clay Blossoms" based on the Guizhou folk song "Good Flower Red" enter the green mountains and beautiful waters, and the pipa, playing Boer and the band work "Tianshan Imagery" show the rich ethnic customs of the western frontier. "Next year, I'm going to travel to these places" "I have to punch in and take a walk around the local area"... After the concert, the official micro of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra received a warm screen message. Traditional hands and feet are "broken" With contemporary thinking, "continued" do not wear thick-soled shoes, there are no water sleeves to dance, hands and feet seem to be "broken", how to sing Kunqu opera? After getting the script, the actors of jiangsu Kun Theater's "Jujiang City" were a bit confused at first. "Jiang Jiang City" tells the story of Liu Yipeng, a doctor who assists Hubei, Ding Ling, a reporter, Ah Chang, a truck driver, Liu Yipeng's mother in Wuhan, Xiao Qiao, a patient, Zhao Shun, a takeaway brother, and Li Yuhu, the manager of a chicken shop. Lead actor Shi Xiaming said bluntly, "The use of traditional performance programs and recitations will be contrary to the times, and the use of Mandarin recitation to change the Kunqu singing voice will be contrary to the art itself." How to eliminate the sense of violation is the biggest problem encountered in creation, and "River City" has no successful precedents for reference and reference. Aiming at modern and contemporary themes, attracting young audiences into the theater, how to make them not only sit still, but also say with satisfaction, "Next time, I want two brushes and three brushes", and the main creators of the opera repertoire participating in the exhibition are "brain-opening". "New Liu Sanjie" composer Fu Tao let the character sing rock and rap in the play, join the big band, complete the electronic music, symphony cooperation, "color tune drama wants to inherit, develop, beyond the classic, need to be honest and innovative, according to the folk song material continuously derived." After Li Dazhao was arrested, he and his wife Zhao Shulan sang in a large section of air, connecting the traditional Peking Opera Erhuang duet to the Kun cavity, from the plate cavity of Peking Opera to the song and card body of Kunqu Opera, breaking the original sense of stage dullness through the song and dance nature of the song and dance body, and "revitalizing" the original scene. In a strike play, in order to enhance the regional characteristics, the elements such as the Beijing rhyme drum and the Beijing opera art were integrated, and the form of "Cannon" in Western opera was borrowed, and the heavy singing and rotation of the working masses were added to set off the vigorous atmosphere of the play. The Beijing Opera Also invited the Beijing Symphony Orchestra to co-score "Li Dazhao", and director Xu Chunlan said: "The symphony is magnificent, spreading the poetry of the revolution, and the stage combines video and real scenes to render momentum." After several polishing, the singing voice of "Jujiang City" still chooses the traditional song card body, strictly follows the rules, composes the music according to the law, and follows the characters. Nianbai adopts The basis of Zhongzhou rhyme, and the pronunciation of the biting word follows the law of four sounds of yin and yang, but the rhythm is greatly adjusted, closer to the way of daily speech, in the words of actor Xu Sijia, "Originally three beats long, may now become a beat." In terms of performance, the actors start from scratch and design their own body performances with both stylized and pictographic characteristics, "Our actors walk on the traditional steps, but the movements in their hands are more contemporary figurative." "Tradition under the feet, era in the hands" is not just an arrangement of physical language, but more like a symbol: based on tradition, the branches of the era are emitted in the classical soil. Content is king, pay attention to packaging, change the stage into more colorful, and "grab" the audience with the cinema. The exhibition works inspired the creators to boldly find a more high-tech and bright color language. Guangdong Provincial Drama Theatre "Deep Sea" is based on Huang Xuhua, a winner of the Order of the Republic and the winner of the 2019 National Supreme Science and Technology Award, telling the story of Huang Xuhua's anonymity for 30 years, leading China's nuclear submarine research and development team to build a national heavy weapon. Huang Xuhua is a native of Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, and the play adds local characteristic elements such as English songs and dances to show the unique Hakka culture of Guangdong. In scenes such as the deep sea and the train moving forward, light and shadow alternate, and the stage design uses film means to create a magnificent effect, breaking through the limitations of the traditional stage. After performing in Suzhou and Wuxi in October, the acrobatic drama "Battle Shanghai" once again appeared in the Shanghai Majestic Theater, and after several months of uninterrupted polishing by the main creative team, the actors practiced more exquisite performances, and the stage, props and multimedia were revised and produced after a round of modifications. In 100 minutes, smooth transitions and stage scheduling present cinematic scene changes. The audience lamented that the original acrobatic performance space was actually so large, especially the display of strength and skill, which had a natural fit with the red theme. In the battle to liberate Shanghai, in the face of the enemy's fire blockade, the PLA soldiers boldly attacked the stronghold, flew across the Suzhou River, defended the Shanghai power plant, no special effects, no cover,the actors jumped from the air, wrestled on the iron cable, climbed the ladder in the rain of bullets and bullets, and made a hardcore red acrobatic drama that made people applaud. Peer mutual learning Reflecting and improving in creation "Li Dazhao has come to Shanghai 7 times to run for the revolutionary cause. Today we take "Li Dazhao" back to the place where he fought and hand over the answer sheet to the Shanghai audience. Before the opening of "Li Dazhao", Liu Tong, president of the Beijing Opera House, said so. More than ten new national stage masterpieces gathered in Shanghai, the audience feasted their eyes, and their peers benefited a lot, looking at the doorway from the bustle. When Wu Wei, general secretary of the party branch of the Shanghai Shanghai Theater, watched "New Liu Sanjie", a little girl sitting behind him said to her mother: "It is so beautiful, like the wings of a dragonfly." This sentence impressed Wu Wei, "'New Liu Sanjie' integrates the hometown and the distant place, tradition and modernity, inheritance and development very comfortably, and the balance car uses the interaction between the actors on the stage very fast, and the rhythm is very fast." Guan Yancao, deputy head of the Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe, observed that "New Liu Sanjie" uses a lot of traditional color tune drama singing voices and integrates modern pop music elements, "The lyrics are deeply characterized by Guangxi opera, and the writing is very beautiful, and it can be seen that the creative team has a very strong skill." After watching Jiangsu Changzhou City Burlesque Troupe's "Chen Wansheng's Eating Problem", Ling Meifang, head of the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe, sighed, "We must dare to gnaw hard bones." "Chen Wansheng's Eating Problem" has great inspiration for our creation, and the topic selection ideas are more active and the theme is broader. If you don't try, a lot of chances of success are lost. On the same night, pan Qianwei, deputy head of the Shanghai People's Burlesque Troupe, lingered in the ear of Pan Qianwei, deputy head of the Shanghai People's Burlesque Troupe, in addition to the classic line in the play, "Eating is a problem, the problem is not a meal, not a meal problem", there are also reflections on the development of burlesque, "Funny is a problem, the problem is not funny, not a funny problem." "Chen Yisheng's Eating Problems" tells the hilarious and poignant story of "funnel household" Chen Yisheng and his three children around the issues of land, grain and food. Pan Qianwei said, "Welcome the Yangtze River Delta Brothers Theater Troupe to move around and perform in Shanghai, so that we have the opportunity to learn." Ling Meifang praised the switch between the past and the present scene in "Chen Yisheng's Eating Problem", "just like the one-man show jumping in and out, coming and going freely, the stage is presented with rules and ideas." "Chen Yisheng's Eating Problem" enlightens us that while adhering to the characteristics of comical art, we can break the existing framework and model, strive to have new ideas and changes, and make the works more contemporary. Good works not only enlighten others, but also baptize the creator's own soul. The drama "Chang'an Second Bowl" is a large-scale play created by Xi'an Drama Theatre over a period of three years, and screenwriter Chen Yan won the Mao Dun Literature Award for his novel "Protagonist", and "Chang'an Second Bowl" is his work that pays tribute to Xi'an. He said that his food, clothing, shelter and transportation all depend on the city's support, "Literary and artistic creation should strive to let life speak, let chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea say, let the days say, let the rings of the year say." The author simply uses a basket to fit them as authentically as possible. "Chang'an Second Bowl" focuses on the theme of building a well-off society in an all-round way, with Shaanxi characteristic snack gourd head steamed bun as the carrier, and reflects the development achievements of Xi'an City in the past 40 years of reform and opening up with small views. Director Zhan Zhe said: "The practical significance of the performance of "The Second Bowl of Chang'an" lies in the fact that people in the same era as us communicate together, remind each other, think together, and preserve and watch over 'unchanged' in thinking, seeking change, changing, and great changes." "Under the Chaotian Palace" is the first original drama produced by the Jiangsu Grand Theatre, telling the story of the Japanese invasion of the city in December 1937, the fall of Nanjing, and the relocation of some of the cultural relics of the Forbidden City stored in the underground cultural relics warehouse of the Nanjing Chaotian Palace. At the critical juncture, the people of the Forbidden City fought with the Japanese invaders, and finally the attempt of the Japanese invading army to plunder the cultural relics of the Forbidden City was in vain. The whole play is engraved with a history of Nanjing That will never be forgotten. The "Grass Shoe County Order" jointly created by Sichuan Art Vocational College, Shifang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government borrows ancient metaphors from the present, and pins the consensus of producers and creators on "serving the official for one term and benefiting one party". "The character of Ji Dakui, the protagonist of the "Grass Shoe County Order," who is wise, honest, and pragmatic for the people, is highly consistent with the requirements of party members and cadres in the new era, and is a valuable reference for the current anti-corruption and clean government education." Xiang Hui, member of the Standing Committee of the Shifang Municipal CPC Committee and director of the Propaganda Department, said that the original intention of creating the "Grass Shoe County Order" was to tap the "clean and honest factors" in the local history and culture, integrate excellent culture into the comprehensive and strict management of the party, stimulate the positive energy of reverence for honesty and cleanliness, and cultivate the value concept of honesty and honesty of grass-roots party members and cadres. A drama, a group handing over a generation's spiritual answer Sheet Watching "Chen Yisheng's Eating Problem", the Shanghai audience sometimes cries, sometimes laughs, and is emotionally affected by the plot. Few people know that at the beginning of the creation of the play, the funds of the theater group were stretched, and in order to save the performance cost, the troupe almost devoted all the efforts of the troupe, and the accountants and so on all came on stage to act. Zhou Lei, the actor of the heroine Silly Sister, suddenly encountered the death of her father and insisted on performing; Tang Yin, who needed hospitalization for treatment due to elevated insulin, temporarily adjusted the time due to the tour and took the stage with an automatic insulin injection pump on his back. "In the past, there was a saying that 'one drama saves a group', but I didn't expect that we would become one of them." Seizing the opportunity of boutique creation, relying on the audience's reputation and market repercussions, we have tasted the sweetness brought by good dramas. Lead actor Zhang Yi said. It is not easy to produce fine products, and in the process of polishing fine products, each participant picks up the steps, step by step, constantly absorbs the nourishment of art and thought, and feeds them back into the works. Wang Rongrong, the leader of a troupe at the Beijing Opera House in Beijing, played Li Dazhao's wife Zhao Shulan in "Li Dazhao". Regardless of whether she has her own rehearsal task, she always sticks to the rehearsal hall, Wang Rongrong said that the creation and rehearsal process of the play "Li Dazhao" is a vivid ideological education lesson for herself and the whole group of cast members, "The young actors have made progress and grown a lot during the creation and rehearsal of the play, and I am happy and pleased about this." She frankly said, "Everyone born in the era of peace should learn from the revolutionary spirit of Li Dazhao, Zhao Shulan and other predecessors of communists who are not afraid of hardships, always achieve 'not forgetting the original heart, keeping the mission in mind', and always cherishing and loving the beautiful life now." The new edition of the Shanghai Opera House's "Morning Bell" also revolves around Li Dazhao, highlighting Li Dazhao's revolutionary spirit and great character of seeking truth for the nation and generously dying for communism on the revolutionary road, and running through the whole play with "seeking the way, walking the way, and martyrdom", showing the difficulty of the revolutionary pioneers' quest. The opera house boldly used a young echelon, and the young actors of the Shanghai Opera House such as Yu Haolei, Xu Xiaoying, Chen Chaobin, Zheng Yao, etc., under the careful tutelage of director Xiong Yuanwei, broke out with amazing artistic expression. As the opening performance of the exhibition, the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe "The Eternal Electric Wave", after a short stay in Shanghai, has been running in the north and south of the motherland, from Beijing, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Liaoning to Heilongjiang, October 23-25 debuted at the Yan'an Grand Theatre, Shaanxi tour, and will go to Shandong, Tianjin, Hebei, Guangdong, Sichuan, the performance schedule has been scheduled until January next year. Where the "radio wave" radiates, the audience holds their breath and follows the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe performers to the tense atmosphere of Shanghai spy movies on the eve of the founding of New China, "there is a kind of empathy and resonance, beyond age, beyond the times." The Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe has formed a convention, and everywhere they go, they prepare "Shanghai flavor" airwave props for the audience to take photos. A ticket is hard to find, and director Chen Mingzhang even flew to the Harbin Grand Theater to watch "The Eternal Radio Wave". Wang Jiajun, played by Li Xia, said: "Li Xia let me know that heroes are also ordinary people, they have pain, they also have reluctance, but because of their faith, they have done extraordinary things. The current years are quiet, and people from generations have paid. We have a greater responsibility and mission to tell the story of the hero to everyone. Shi Xiaming revealed that the play will be toured next year, "We can't fight in the forefront of the fight against the epidemic like medical staff, treating diseases and saving people." But we have the responsibility to relay the stories of those songs and tears in an artistic way, to record the efforts made by people to fight the epidemic and the feelings that we will remember. A high degree of cultural self-confidence can give birth to excellent literary and artistic works, and the endless literary and artistic masterpieces can enhance cultural self-confidence. Every appearance, polishing, modification, and reappearance, the excellent newly created stage work of "Art Rising Forward" is exhibited in Shanghai, and the Ming Zhi works that embody the essence of Chinese culture and disseminate contemporary Chinese values are created with the spirit of craftsmanship.
Source: Liberation Daily