【Text/Observer Network Ruan Jiaqi】
The 8th Wuzhen Drama Festival has successfully closed on the 24th, but today (27th) Venus's "spit" in the theater festival activities suddenly became popular.
Jin Xing said that the theater festival should be more "advanced" in the selection of repertoire, and it is necessary to push out the repertoire of young people, rather than all the repertoire around the director, "If Meng Jinghui is the director this year, it will not be Meng Jinghui's play." ”
She also revealed that the 2017 drama festival directed by Tian Qinxin was a better choice of repertoire, but Meng Jinghui, Lai Shengchuan and Huang Lei "three masters could not tolerate her and kicked her away", to which Venus bluntly said that the three were "men's small family temperament", which triggered heated discussion among netizens.
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The 2013 Wuzhen Drama Festival was co-sponsored by Chen Xianghong, Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan and Meng Jinghui, and the festival consisted of specially invited plays, youth competitions, ancient town carnivals, and town dialogues (forums, summits, workshops, readings, exhibitions) and other units.
After being suspended for one term last year due to the epidemic, the 8th Wuzhen Drama Festival this year returned in mid-October. The video that went viral online today is from Venus' speech in the "Small Town Dialogue" session. At the meeting, Jin Xing named Meng Jinghui, Lai Shengchuan and Huang Lei, and complained that the current Wuzhen Drama Festival was not "advanced" enough in the choice of repertoire, and the artistic director's "pattern was too small".
She believes that the artistic director should only be responsible for selecting, introducing the repertoire, and launching the repertoire of young creators, rather than all the repertoire revolving around the director, "If Meng Jinghui is the director this year, it will not be Meng Jinghui's play." If I'm the artistic director of venus this year, I won't be allowed to play any of venus this year. ”
In contrast, Jin Xing believes that the 2017 drama festival with the well-known drama director Tian Qinxin as the director has a better choice in the repertoire, but the topic changes, she claims that Tian Qinxin was ostracized by Meng Jinghui, Lai Shengchuan and Huang Lei, "the three masters could not tolerate her and kicked her away", after which Tian Qinxin went to the National Drama Theatre as the director.
In this regard, Venus directly named and approved: "Since we have done such a large pattern of art festivals, the mentality of several of our directors can be enlarged a little." Too small and childish! Men's little family! ”
At the end of the conversation, the applause at the scene continued, and the atmosphere was quite warm.
Many netizens on the Internet also applauded her speech, calling Venus "dare to say", saying that the quality of the Wuzhen Drama Festival has deteriorated since it became popular, and even some drama actors have lost their sense of faith in acting under the immersion of "rice circle culture".
Some netizens also gave the evaluation that "Meng Jinghui, Lai Shengchuan and Huang Lei turned the drama festival into their own back garden".
However, many people also think that Venus's statement is biased, and the statement that "the theater director does not arrange his own plays" is too absolute, saying that after the Wuzhen Theater Festival was suspended for one session, it was still affected by the epidemic this year, resulting in many foreign excellent plays not being able to come to China to perform, so there may be a lack of heavyweight plays.
The opening and closing plays of this year's drama festival are Meng Jinghui's "Red and Black" and Lai Shengchuan's "Once Upon a Time", and some people say that this is because the works of Meng Jinghui, Lai Shengchuan and others have a good reputation and market influence, and can bear the heavy responsibility of opening and closing the drama.
Some netizens also "mingled unevenly" for Meng Jinghui's three people, mentioning that the Wuzhen Arts Festival was first run by Meng Jinghui and others because they loved drama, and in recent years, they have also supported many young theater creators.
Everyone mentioned one of the important aspects of the festival, "Youth Competition". According to China Youth Daily, the initiator Huang Lei once revealed that in fact, the birth of the Wuzhen Drama Festival began with youth competition, he initially wanted to launch a project similar to the youth drama show, and later with the support of Chen Xianghong, the chief planner of the Wuzhen Scenic Area, it became an international drama festival.
The "Youth Competition" is the core link of the drama festival, every year there will be 18 outstanding works during the theater festival for mass performance, the theater festival judging committee from which to select the best drama award, the best individual performance award, special attention award, excellent young creators can get up to 200,000 yuan in prize money.
The shortlist for this year's Wuzhen Drama Festival "Youth Competition"
This year's much-watched town award "Best Drama Award" opened a "double yolk egg", which was jointly won by two female dramatists.
This year, the two female dramatists jointly won the "Best Drama Award" from the official website
Creators who have emerged in the youth competition will also participate in the activities of the next Wuzhen Theater Festival, such as Yang Zhefen, winner of the 2017 "Town Award", and He Qi, who was shortlisted in 2018, who presented new stage works in this year's Theater Festival.
Every year, the drama festival will promote the development of young original dramas like this, support young stage theater talents, and provide a platform for young creators who love theater with potential and dreams to show their talents, so some netizens believe that the love and support of Meng Jinghui and others for drama should not be misunderstood, let alone be labeled as "selfish" and "small".
In addition, for the matter mentioned by Venus that "Tian Qinxin was kicked out by Meng Jinghui's three people", many netizens also retorted that although Tian Qinxin only served as the artistic director of the Wuzhen Drama Festival for one term, he has been active in the theater festival since then, participated in the work of the jury many times, and many excellent plays have been staged in the theater festival.
In 2017, Tian Qinxin joined the preparation of the 5th Wuzhen Theater Festival as the first female artistic director, and her original drama "Wild Ride" also took the stage. Since then, she has been busy as the director of the National Drama Theatre, but she can still be seen at the Wuzhen Theater Festival after that, and this year some people have taken photos of her injured wheelchair walking around the Theater Festival Night Market.
In 2017 and 2018, Tian Qinxin participated in the gong beating ceremony of the opening ceremony
This also makes some netizens feel inappropriate for Venus to complain that Meng Jinghui and the three are "men's small family temperament", and think that this matter should not be tied to the "gender issue".
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