Layers of metal chains naturally sag into chain walls, occasionally swaying slightly with the audience entering, and the hard material adds to the cold under the illumination of the blue light. Walking into a closer look, the chain is composed of a hollow iron ring connection, so that the entire stage space is visually bound but transparent, through the design of lighting strength and weakness, to create a three-dimensional sense of the chain wall, coupled with the light ceiling above the stage, to build a depressed, imprisoned, futuristic room.
As the plot advances, the layers of chain walls will be "peeled off" one by one, this drama called "Room" shows us the struggle and change of two generations of women at different ages, gradually clarifying their self-goals in the process of growth and maturity, not blindly being strong, and when experiencing choices and difficulties in life, face them together and support each other.
<h4>The whole story reflects the stereotype of this society on the gender of women, and the transformation of the protagonist shows the bravery and breakthrough of "her" power in the face of the definition given by [gender: female] in the face of this era. </h4>
Women's age has always been a hot topic of discussion, which will bring about problems such as appearance anxiety, marital anxiety, and workplace anxiety. The four-act drama "Room" is divided into four age stages of two generations of women, and the actors Li Chentao and Liu Weichen of shanghai Dramatic Arts Center interpret the story of an ordinary mother and daughter growing up together by portraying the roles of two independent women with their own desires and desires.
The play captures fragments of their lives over the past twenty years, vividly portraying the bondage, influence and mutual support between women.
Screenwriter and director Chen Tiantian created this script three years ago, when she focused more on private emotions, and the whole social environment has changed subtly in the past three years, and she has also shifted the creative center to the exploration of the psychology of the entire social group. In recent years, women's attitude to some anxiety problems has changed from anger and response to open-mindedness and laughter, and women of the times are also growing with the times, and for contemporary women, age has changed from a boundary to a number, age, no longer a shackle for women to pursue their dreams and break through themselves.
In 2018, the drama "Room" appeared on the stage of the 1933 micro-theater in the form of an incubation work, which resonated with female audiences, and many viewers said after watching it
"The lines are particularly true. I can remember when and on what occasion my mother said the exact same thing to me, saying to me, 'How old are you, how are you still so childish'. ”
"A lot of details in the play are too much like the relationship between me and my mother, at that time, I just thought she was nagging and didn't understand me, but now, I miss her a little." 」
The mother and daughter in the play have disputes and reconciliations, and their hands are held together again and again, and they are thrown away from each other again and again, like every mother and daughter in life.
The scene of the incubation version of "Room" after the performance also has a small number of male audiences who feel that the male image in the play is too negative, why not look at the good men in life? Huang Chen, an actor at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, who plays a triangle in the play, said that "men are the driving force and catalyst of this play." ”
Indeed, some of the male characters in the play have triggered the contradiction between mother and daughter, and some have witnessed the growth of this mother and daughter, and they have shortcomings, but the two women in the play are not perfect, and the two sexes in "Room" are not opposing relationships, which is the same as the relationship between men and women in our lives, the two sexes help each other, make up for each other, and are each other's life partners.
Everyone's life will face contact with the opposite sex and the same sex, the two sexes look at and discuss problems from their own perspectives, and gender is not related to gender, without mutual promotion and interpersonal relationships, the story of their lives may not be able to develop.
The drama "Room" takes "broken" as the core concept when shooting promotional photos, breaks the definition of gender given by the world, tears off the clothing label of successful people in society, embraces the fragile self, blurs the boundaries of gender and cares for each other, and works hand in hand. Producer Zhao Meiyang hopes that the audience can spend a soothing night in the theater of "Room", "We don't have to ask ourselves to be fully armed to face the world, but allow ourselves to 'make mistakes'." ”
<h4>From October 28 to November 14, 2021, the drama "Room", produced by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, written and directed by Chen Tian, and starring Li Chentao, Liu Weichen and Huang Chen, will be staged at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center Drama Salon, bringing a story of women's growth. </h4>
Two special photographic areas were set up outside the theater this time, the theater photo studio and the "female" character display area. The theater photo studio invites professional photographers to take a photo before and after the audience watches the play, throw away the filter on the line, capture the traces before and after the audience watches "Room", and take only one photo per person at a time, leaving the most authentic record. The "female" display area shows some possibilities by hanging various side heads. They can all form new meanings by combining them with the word "female". These meanings one-sidedly present some stereotypes of women, some are beautiful and some are negative.
<h3>Performance information</h3>
Performance Date: October 28, 2021 - November 14, 2021 19:45 (no performance on Mondays, only 14:15 pm on Sundays)
Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Drama Salon (3rd Floor, No. 288 Anfu Road)
Ticket price: 180 yuan / 280 yuan
Source: Thoughtful