The Paper's reporter Wang Yi
Affection, love and passion, when a successful middle-aged man, all day long between three women, the relationship is big! On January 15th, Beijing Renyi Experimental Theater, written by Wan Fang and directed by Ren Ming, was staged again, and the original class members familiar to the audience, Martin Zhicheng, Liang Dani, Xu Jingyao, and Xu Cenzi, all returned, and starred with the newly joined young actor Zhou Shuai in this popular masterpiece of Renyi Small Theater that has been performing for 12 consecutive years and is still hard to find.
The Relationships poster
"Relationship" is a realistic work focusing on the emotional problems of life, the hero in the play is a successful person in the eyes of others, and he seems to be a family, love, and passion between three women, but in fact, he is deeply involved in complex relationships and faces an unknown crisis. In the end, how to solve the dilemma, the work does not give a clear answer, but takes the audience to explore together. "The play is not a tragic or comedic ending, but a blank space at the end that poses a question for the audience to get involved and think about what role and responsibility everyone should play in marriage and love." Lead actors Ding Zhicheng and Liang Dani said.
Stills from "Relationships"
Since the title of the play is "Relationship", each character in the play must show both an independent personality and highlight the relationship with others, which is more of a test of tacit understanding between the actor and the opponent. On the evening of the 15th, the surging news reporter observed the scene, and the small theater was full of seats before the opening of the performance, and the "immersion" of the plot brought about by the almost "zero distance" between the audience and the actors was beyond doubt. On the stage, the husband and wife relationship between Sha Chenxing, played by Ding Zhicheng, and Wu Xiaohua, played by Liang Dani, the corresponding stage design is the living room dining table; the couple relationship with Ye Hang, played by Xu Jingyao, corresponds to the living room sofa; and the passionate relationship with Du Du, played by Xu Cenzi, corresponds to the bedroom double bed... "Sometimes, without looking at the eyes, you can feel the behavior of the other party." The actors said that it is this natural flow that allows the audience to quickly substitute into the "relationship", and also makes the complex relationship more clearly displayed in front of the audience.
After twelve years of stage training, now every actor can play the role in the play is handy, but for them, it is still not an easy task to perform again, in the eyes of the lead actor Ding Zhicheng, "If there is no difficulty in a play, then there is no desire to create." "For example, there are large monologues in this drama, which are extremely demanding of the actors, and the process of each performance is the process of conquering the characters. And small theater plays are not only communicative between actors and actors, but also between actors and audiences. Actors need to be more delicate to express the character's heart. And Liang Dani, who plays his wife in the play, creates new surprises for the audience through the change of details, "The small theater drama is close to the audience, the most important thing is the details, adding points to each detail, and the final work as a whole will have a high score." Twelve years after the performance, my understanding of the character has also changed continuously, starting from the previous year, I weakened the cowardly part of the character and made her more controlling, which is more in line with the audience's thinking about the position of women today. ”
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