At 19:00 on July 15 and 16, 2021, Pu Cunxin, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association and performing artist Pu Cunxin, will direct the Tibetan version of Hamlet for the first Tibetan undergraduate class of the Performance Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, which will land in the Opera Hall of the Harbin Grand Theatre. This version of Hamlet is a 1990 version directed by Lin Zhaohua, with Li Jianming as the Chinese translator and theatrical composition, the exclusive agent of Shanghai Chinese Dream Culture Development Co., Ltd., and performed by 22 Tibetan students. This legendary masterpiece, known as Shakespeare's play "The Most Brilliant Diamond in the Crown", will appear in the Ice City with a new look.
"The actor who has starred in shakespeare in China" meets the innocent soul from the plateau
Interpret the collision and integration of national culture and world classics
Pu Cunxin is known as one of the "actors who have starred in Shakespeare's plays in China", in 1990, Pu Cunxin starred in Lin Zhaohua's "Hamlet" by Lin Zhaohua Drama Studio, and in recent years, he has repeatedly recited the monologue fragment of "Hamlet" on the Harbin Grand Theatre brand program "Farewell to Kangqiao - Chinese and Foreign Poetry Prose Capture Music Recital". In 2021, Pu Cunxin, as a distinguished professor of the Shanghai Theater Academy, directed the Mandarin and Tibetan versions of Hamlet for the first Tibetan undergraduate class of the Department of Drama And Acting, which once again brought a complete surprise to the audience. In Pu Cunxin's view, "This is a gift brought back to Tibet as the first Tibetan undergraduate graduation class of the Department of Drama and Acting." ”
Since 1959, the Shanghai Theater Academy has implemented the party's ethnic policy, opened Tibetan drama performance classes, and enrolled students every ten years, making significant contributions to the development of ethnic minority literature and art. In 2021, the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet, this far-reaching work has stunned the domestic theater circle as soon as it was staged. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying tweeted that Tibetan students at the Shanghai Theater Academy were interpreting Western classics with Tibetan culture, and Xinhua News Agency, Global Times, Surging News, Oriental Satellite TV, Tibet Daily and other media rushed to report on the performance. This grand event of the collision and integration of national culture and world classics has instantly become a topic of word of mouth. Pu Cunxin said: "30 years ago, I became a good actor because of this play directed by Mr. Lin Zhaohua, and now I direct this group of Tibetan children who will graduate to perform this play. After four years of studying opera, they can interpret the world's classic dramas in Mandarin and Tibetan, and applaud them. Remember them, in the future, they will return to Shanghai with the Tibet Autonomous Region Repertory Theatre to perform. ”
From the snow to the ice city
They used the national wind to stir up the summer of Harbin
On July 12, all the actors of "Hamlet" arrived in Harbin and brought new vitality to the summer of the ice city with the most enthusiastic national wind. After arriving at the Harbin Grand Theatre, the two actors of the crew could not wait to board the stage of the Opera Hall and improvise the excerpt of "Hamlet", shouting joyfully "Tashi Delek, Harbin Grand Theatre We are coming!" ", to the ice city audience to present the most sincere greetings from the Tibetans. After a short visit to the theater, the actors were led by the theater staff to the central street, and the Tibetan actors could not hide their love for the ice city, touring the old street, tasting snacks, drinking "Kvas", singing all the way "My home is on the Songhua River in the northeast, where there are mountains full of soybean sorghum ...". At dinnertime, the crew was invited by the theater to taste the northeast special food iron pot stew, the first time to experience this novel food culture, everyone is very excited, the play played Polonius Gesang Yundan said that in the past only on TV, the Internet has seen, heard Harbin, this time with the work to visit, not only felt the unique cultural atmosphere of the northern ice city, but also intoxicated in the romantic city atmosphere of Harbin, especially the iron pot stew This special food makes people feel very kind, everyone sits around the pot to eat, It's like a family. For the upcoming "Hamlet" in Ice City, everyone said that the repertoire is the common work of all members of the crew, everyone will work hard to complete the role, and "Hamlet", which gathers everyone's wisdom, will definitely bring an unprecedented "revenge prince" to the ice city audience.
At present, the Harbin station of Hamlet has entered the countdown, "Shakespeare belongs to the world, and the unique language system of Tibetan culture can fully interpret any culture in the world." This time, the "dream linkage" between Tibetan culture and Shakespeare is not only a report on the teaching achievements, but also provides more profound materials for the cross-cultural adaptation and localization of Shakespeare, and injects fresh blood into the drama stage of Bingcheng this summer. (China Daily Heilongjiang Reporter Station)
Source: China Daily