On June 22, the Tianjin Critics Theater celebrated the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, "Revolutionary Family", which was performed at the Meilanfang Grand Theater in Beijing. In just two hours, the actors experienced the joys and sorrows of a revolutionary family with the audience in the carefully constructed stage space, showing the cruelty and tenderness of the war years, and feeling the revolutionary nostalgia and faith of the communists who gave up their small families to become everyone.
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As a major drama, this drama has attracted a lot of attention. First of all, the script is adapted from the live-action autobiography "My Family" by "Revolutionary Mother" Tao Cheng, and the biography and film are far-reaching. Therefore, how to put the revolutionary story of "one family" on the stage in the form of commentary, how to use this artistic means to infect old readers and audiences, and how to give play to the characteristics of drama criticism to inspire a new generation of theater viewers are the primary issues in front of the troupe and the audience. Secondly, the protagonist of the play, Fang Cheng, is played by Zeng Zhaojuan, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage drama and the president of the Tianjin Municipal Commentary Theatre. It is also very exciting whether the winner of the "Second Degree Plum" can perfectly present the experience, tempering and transformation process of the revolutionary mother's life to the audience and resonate with people. Facts have proved that Tianjin Critics Theatre's "Revolutionary Family" is reproduced with magnificent scenes, combined with delicate deductive treatment, and finally gives the perfect answer. The whole drama runs through the revolutionary true feelings and great love, so that people can deeply feel the great feelings of generations of communists and followers at the scene, that is, strengthen their faith, do not change their original intentions, and for the sake of the liberation and happy life of the vast number of working people, they will not hesitate to throw their heads, spill their blood, and even lose their relatives. Watching this work is like taking a visual party lesson, and the theater seems to have become a special class for party history education.
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A good work is often ideological, artistic, and ornamental, and for the audience, it is to look good, understand, listen well, and be resistant to aftertaste. The commentary drama "Revolutionary Family" opens the plot with a family portrait in the peaceful era, and slowly introduces the touching story of the family portrait with flashbacks. This structure contrasts sharply, showing the red complex while transporting people back to the white horror era, as if everyone has become a witness to history and the family. When the protagonist Fang Cheng is married, he is just an ordinary wife who is looking forward to living an ordinary life with Xiucai, and the happiness of life is "having his days Sai Honey Sweet". However, the Kuomintang reactionaries snuffed out this good wish, and Xiucai's husband organized a revolutionary action to make the woman realize that Jiang Meiqing was not only her husband, but also a guide, "following the Communist Party, the poor turned their bodies over." Therefore, Fang Cheng cut off the head of the revolution in the sweetness of his new marriage, gradually understood the revolutionary principles, and participated in the revolutionary struggle little by little. In the face of the tragic sacrifice of her husband and eldest son, she strongly endured great grief and led her children to continue to work for the party, to become a communist party member in the fire, to become the core of this revolutionary family, to strengthen her faith in the wind and rain, and to stand firm.
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A good play can make an actor, and an actor can also add color to a good play. The most moving thing in the play is the scene where his son Li An is arrested and Fang Cheng is also detained in the enemy's interrogation room. In a small space, mother and son look at each other but cannot recognize each other for the sake of the party's cause, and finally the loving mother can only watch her beloved son walk to the execution ground. True maternal love infects every theatergoer. Faced with the overall situation of the revolution, "the task is on the shoulders of its chaos? Here, the famous artist Zeng Zhaojuan sang in a touching and heartfelt way, expressing her deep love for her child, the grief of losing her child, and the love and greatness of having to sacrifice her small family to become everyone in order to protect the safety of other comrades in the underground liaison station. The shengdan duet performance here, the image of a great mother and a great son standing on the stage, can be described as touching, so that the listener can not help but cry.
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Compared with some tragic operas with historical themes, "Revolutionary Family" sees a strong positive energy in the tragedy, so that the love of the revolution and the love of relatives can highlight extraordinary emotions in the great love of the party's cause. Looking back at the whole play, the first half of Fang Cheng's husband and wife are deeply in love, and the mother and son are connected by their hearts, compared with what Fang Cheng thought when he returned to the contact station to see the family portrait photos, the indescribable difficulties and twists made the audience can't help but wet their eyes with tears again. These tears are not only tears of heartache, but also tears of admiration and pride. It is precisely the countless admirable Communists, with their faith in the great love and righteousness of the party and the revolutionary cause, who have exchanged their revolutionary pride of "exchanging broken homes for the whole of mountains and rivers" and finally realized their ideals in exchange for the happiness and peace of tens of millions of families today. The end of the whole play closely echoes the beginning, the heroes reunite, and a new person is added, indicating that the red family style of the revolutionary family has been passed down from generation to generation.
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Throughout the play, everywhere is meticulous and clever, a little bit of ingenious design. The revolutionary family reflected in a family portrait photo is the unique ingenuity of this play, which is thought-provoking and evocative. The wonderful singing of Teacher Zeng Zhaojuan and Teacher Wenlin of Drama not only has the charm of traditional commentary, but also has a new cavity that is polished according to the plot and characters, and the aftertaste is long. The group dance of cutting the revolutionary head in the play is also very distinctive, and the stage art and costumes and props are novel and unique, making this drama a masterpiece. After watching the play, this family portrait is deeply imprinted in my mind, and this cute and more respectable revolutionary family is always worthy of our study and praise!
Author: Liu Jie (Deputy Secretary-General of Beijing Opera Critics Association)
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