□ Peninsula all-media reporter Meng Xiuli
On the evening of October 27th, the stage play "Love in the City", directed by the new Orientalist aesthetic master Ye Jintian, will premiere in Shanghai and kick off the prelude to 20 tours in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Changsha. There is no arrangement for Qingdao for this tour, but the island city residents are particularly concerned that Qingdao actor Fu Miao plays the role of "Four Grandmothers" in the play, second only to the male and female protagonists, and also has a good performance. On the evening of October 22, the play was auditioned in Rizhao, and all the reporters of the peninsula went to Rizhao to watch the performance and conducted an exclusive interview with Fu Miao, specifically understanding the front and back of the stage of the audition, and "visiting the class" for the upcoming Shanghai premiere and the three-place tour.
Impression Zhang Ailing: Sharp bystander floating and varied
Talking about her knowledge and understanding of Zhang Ailing, Fu Miao introduced that when she was in middle school, she began to read Zhang Ailing's novels, and felt that what she wrote was quite thin, but in the thin love, she had her deep affection, and did not understand the sophistication of the individual. After growing up, I would occasionally turn to Zhang Ailing's novels and some short films, including "Small Reunion" and "Color Ring", and watched some of her later works, and I had a more complete understanding. "This time because of the performance of "Love in the City", I watched "Love of the Allure" two or three times, and read some personal profiles about Zhang Ailing, including writing Zhang Ailing's books, after reading, perhaps with the increase of age, I have a deeper understanding and feeling of her, including her writing about family, writing about love, writing about human feelings. She is a bystander, very objective to express her world presented in this kind of world is cold, human feelings are cold and warm, very sharp, very in place! However, she also has some parts that she wants to say and does not want to express, and she wants to express but cannot express, which is actually a problem that Ye Dao repeatedly emphasized during the rehearsal process of our play, that is, how to show her obscure parts. ”
In order to have a more comprehensive understanding of Zhang Ailing, just as Fu Miao said, "immersed in Zhang Ailing's world", Fu Miao deliberately went to see Xu Anhua's "First Burning Incense" between rehearsals, "I think it may be because Zhang Ailing's things are too classic, her inner language is too rich, it is difficult to use film and television or very simple and one-sided things to reflect, I think this is why Director Ye will use a lot of film and television materials in our play to reflect, after all, there are many psychological scenes, it is difficult to act out by acting, it is difficult to act at close range on the stage." In the rehearsal process, carefully pondering the characters and plot, coupled with a series of preparations before and after, Fu Miao has a deeper understanding of Zhang Ailing's works: "I think her works, you feel very desolate, but the desolation is permeated with some human brilliance and warmth, there are some cramped and dirty parts of human nature, but there are some kind and warm parts, you will always find a variety of characters in her works, which is a kind of contrast and portrayal of the current people." ”
In "Love in the City", the fourth grandmother is not a pleasing character, she is very stubborn and vitriolous. In Fu Miao's interpretation, she is a person with fresh vitality, "I now have more and more deep feelings for the role of the fourth grandmother, I think in fact, people to middle age, or after experiencing a lot of things, may be a little numb to some things, but the fourth grandmother does not have this numbness, she always has a fresh vitality, she has an upward, unwilling, to fight and cross the ability, in fact, many people do not, the third grandmother does not, the fourth grandfather does not, the third master does not, they are just in a swamp deeper and deeper, But four grandmas have. So the novel ends with the fourth grandmother divorced, she went out of the White family to find the possibility of her next life, I think this is a special point after reading the novel, I am particularly happy. Fu Miao said, "If you understand her unwillingness and grievances, her struggles and yearnings, including the upward force that blooms in her human nature, I think it is actually very moving." ”
Impression Ye Jintian: A person with his own small universe
As one of the few stage drama participation experiences in his artistic career, Fu Miao's cooperation with the main creator and crew members is very harmonious, and he is also very happy in more than ten days in Rizhao. Fu Miao expressed the hope that a drama can be rehearsed every year, "Of course, a good script, a good team, a good partner, if there is such a collocation, it is a nourishing process to go to the drama stage every year." Fu Miao believes that the difference between filming drama and film and television is that in the process of filming drama, you can learn and harvest a lot of things, "it seems that you are a process of absorption, and others may be a process of external release, so I still enjoy this time." ”
In Fu Miao's view, the personal cultivation and personality of the general director Ye Jintian, including artistic feelings and cognition, are all master-level, "He always speaks slowly and logically, and he is not in a hurry, and the communication with the actors makes the actors very comfortable, often encouraging us, I think Teacher Ye is a person with his own small universe." According to Fu Miao, the first time I met Ye Dao was in his studio, "When we met and talked about the characters, he sat in a corner, didn't talk, and was very quiet, but you felt that there was a powerful energy in this person, which made you feel that it was not so easy to get close." ”
"I think Teacher Ye is an artist, his grasp of the whole details, including the overall grasp, especially the details, including every costume, every button, every decoration, so small that it can no longer be small, he must strictly control, he strives for excellence in details." Fu Miao said that Ye Dao's interpretation of Zhang Ailing's novel is very deep, and because she read some of Zhang Ailing's autobiographies and works, "I understand the metaphors of the moon on the big screen he uses, including water, including some still life metaphors, he actually understands very deeply, including his understanding of the character of white tassels and his understanding of human nature." ”
Fu Miao's visual performance, whether it is multimedia film images, flowing stage installations, gorgeous and colorful costumes, or music and dance, all impressed Fu Miao: "Visual things are Teacher Ye's specialty, and he is a master in this regard." I think it's all perfect, very appropriate. There is also the video part, perhaps Teacher Ye himself has a very deep understanding of the play itself, this kind of stage and film and television performance, this large-scale use, he will use a movie storyline to string the scene, I think this is relatively rare, but also one of the highlights of this play, many friends after watching, the feedback is also better. ”
Impression "Allure" rehearsal: It is not easy to rehearse the play, and I look forward to the performance in Qingqing
On October 21st and 22nd, "Love in the City" was successfully auditioned at the Rizhao Grand Theater, reproducing Zhang Ailing's beautiful and close-hearted "ordinary legend". The audition before the official performance won unanimous praise from the audience, and many audiences shouted: "It is worth the trip!" ”
According to Fu Miao, this audition to Rizhao includes a rehearsal, with the stage, "find a 1:1 theater rehearsal, which should be unprecedented in the history of drama, Director Ye attaches great importance to this drama, especially in terms of technology, a lot of multimedia, as well as the combination of film parts." It is reported that the crew's ten days are basically in cooperation with the stage, lighting and multimedia, and the drama part of the drama has been rehearsed in Beijing, which is very mature and complete, and the later stage is the rehearsal and synthesis part.
Talking about getting along with the members of the entire drama group, Fu Miao said that everyone has been together for nearly two months, the first month of rehearsal in Beijing, everyone basically gets along day and night, "Although when in Beijing, everyone will go home to live, but the feelings have been laid, I think it is particularly interesting that our white family's fourth brother, third brother, third sister-in-law, seventh sister, sixth sister, I often have a feeling - wow, really! They seem to be like people in the play— often I feel a sense of trance. Fu Miao said that he especially admired Teacher Ye's ability to pick actors, "Over time, I feel that everyone is like a person in the play, fun; including this mode of getting along is also a little similar, which is very interesting." ”
The Rizhao audition stunned the time, the colorful presentation on the stage, the wonderful interpretation of the actors, and the cooperation of the whole team also had many highlights. Fu Miao introduced: "It is really not easy to rehearse this scene, our entire crew of more than 80 staff plus actors, the light transfer has been turned three times, because once to Shanghai to shoot, and then to Rizhao, and then the premiere to Shanghai, in fact, such a large scale of sports, in fact, is a very difficult thing, including the production side is also a very rigorous and very professional team, all aspects are well organized. This is the first stage play directed by Director Ye, the whole team is very strong, Fu Miao said that he was "very fortunate to participate in it", at the same time said: "Thanks to all the staff involved in this play, they are really hard, just our turntable disassembly, installation and dismantling, I don't know how many times." When we rehearsed in Beijing, we were rehearsing with real scenes, the workload of the technical department was very large, it was not easy, and I could also appreciate the hard work of every staff member, who paid in obscurity behind their backs, and here I want to give them a big thumbs up. ”
As the daughter of Qingdao, Fu Miao very much hopes that "Love in the City" can come to Qingdao to perform, "because after all, Qingdao is my hometown." Although my mother also went to see the two auditions in Rizhao this time, and my family and friends also went to see it, I still hope to perform in Qingdao. And I think that Qingdao's cultural industry is getting better and better now, including that there are now very beautiful art museums in the west of qingdao, and many crews are filming in Qingdao, which shows that the cultural atmosphere in Qingdao is getting stronger and stronger. So I also hope that the fathers and elders in my hometown can enjoy such a high level of stage drama, which will also add a brighter stroke to their cultural life. Fu Miao also confidently said that if he performs in Qingdao, "I believe that many people are willing to buy tickets to see it, and hope to come to Qingdao next year to perform." ”