"The entry point is small, but it has the magic of knowing the subtle" "Tom and Kayla have no right or wrong, they have their own advantages and disadvantages", after watching the Chinese version of the play "Skylight", the audience talked about it. "Skylight" in Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center · The D6 space continues to be staged until May 23.
Skylight was created by British playwright David Hale, who won a British Academy Film Award and an American Screenwriters Guild Award. Before writing Skylight, David Hale mainly wrote big-scene, big-scale epic works, and he wrote a lot of content that had never been used as a theatrical theme in the traditional sense, such as the economic crisis, the Iraq War, the defeat of the Labour Party election, and the privatization of the British railway. Yet David Hale senses how difficult it is to create a character with a strong sense of texture in an epic drama: "I personally prefer a less-populated chamber play, perhaps because it reveals more subtle humanity and sensitive relationships. ”
"Skylight" is David's first attempt at an indoor drama, a cold and windy London night, restaurant tycoon Tom knocks on the door of kayla, a middle school teacher, and his wife has just died, he tries to rekindle the old love with Kayla, but in each other's temptation, he finds that the two are already in two opposing worlds. Emotional entanglement is the main situation of "Skylight", but David Haier's original intention was to feel that the British government at that time set entrepreneurs as a social benchmark, believing that teachers, doctors, nurses and so on were insignificant. Focusing on how the fate of a couple changes due to their different values, Skylight won the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best Novel Drama and the 69th Tony Award for Best Rehearsal Drama.
The whole plot is completely through the dialogue of two people, how not to make the audience feel tired because of the catharsis of the emotions, the second degree of creation and acting skills are very important. The Chinese version of "Skylight" was rearranged by Xie Shuai, director of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, and "mutual respect and encouragement of actors to try" is his way of working as a director. Xie Shuai hopes to discharge a play with valuable output, which will resonate and think about the audience, "Too much emphasis on measuring value with money, breaking the balance, why not scientists and writers to express their positions and lead the society?" ”
"Skylight" actor Tom is played by Yang Overflow, who won the 17th Shanghai Magnolia Theatre Performance Awards For Lead Actor. He said that when he first saw "Skylight", he liked it: "This story uses emotion as a carrier, but the theme of the discussion is social reality. Xie Chengying plays the heroine Kayla. She loves Kayla's spiritual strength—standing against the success of money," struggling but struggling to hold fast to what she believes in life. In Xie Chengying's view, this is not just a tragic story of "loving each other but not being together", she hopes that after the audience walks out of the theater, when they see people who have not cared around them, they will pay more attention to each other and give each other more encouragement. Li Shigao, who plays her son, challenged to play edward, an 18-year-old boy who is lonely and inferior but kind-hearted, and has been tempered for several months.
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Source: Author: Zhuge Yi