Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) From September 11 to 12, the second play "Spring Death" of the "Tenth Anniversary Drama Month", which is specially planned for the 10th anniversary of the "Drama Nine", will be staged at the Damai Chao Theater in Beijing.
Stills from "Spring Gone"
Ten years ago, in the golden autumn of September, a group of young people came together on the stage of the Peking University Drama Star Style Competition with a drama called "Nine People". At that time, although they were on the occasion of graduation, they made a "ten-year covenant" of "doing an original drama every year and performing for ten consecutive years". "Drama Nine" was also born. In the past ten years, several young people have kept their promises and continued to explore and persist in the road of drama, which has gradually become a tacit and firm agreement between the "nine people" and themselves, the audience, and the theater. In order to commemorate this "Ten-Year Covenant", in September 2021, the "Drama Nine" used three republic-of-China intellectual dramas of "Four Machines", "Spring Death" and "Tale of Two Wings" to open the 10th anniversary special project "10th Anniversary Drama Month", which was staged in Beijing in the golden autumn of September.
Stills from "Four Machines"
Previously, from September 4 to 5, the drama "Four Machines", which was the opening play of the "10th Anniversary Drama Month" of the nine dramas, was first staged. Premiered in May 2019, "Four Machines" is the opening of the "Drama Nine" series of intellectuals of the Republic of China, and is also a sharp and funny literati drama, focusing on the theme of studying in the world and adults in a chaotic world. This performance not only ushered in the 50th performance since the premiere of the play, but also completed the 100th performance since the establishment of the "Drama Nine".
Among the 24 specially invited plays of the 8th Wuzhen Drama Festival just released, the second work in the "10th Anniversary Drama Month" is also listed. In September 2020, trapped by the epidemic, "Spring Death" became the first work of the "Nine" to meet the audience in online form. Different from the soaring debate of "Four Machines", "Spring Death" is light and humorous, and the affection is long. After a year of repeated polishing, "Spring Death" has become a republican intellectual drama loved by the audience and the industry. The female characters in the drama works of "Drama Nine" have always been undependent and faceless, and have a three-dimensional brilliance under "her perspective". As a double heroine work, "Spring Death" is more affectionate and restrained, gentle but firm, depicting a journey of acquaintance, acquaintance and mutual stay between Gu Jingwei and Qu Jianxiong.
Stills from "The Tale of the Two Wings"
After "Spring Death", as a "Drama Nine" this year, the original innovative work "Double Maple" written by Zhu Hongxuan and Ye Ziling, directed by Zhu Hongxuan, and starring Zhang Wei, Yang Nan and Bao Kaihua will be unveiled in the "Tenth Anniversary Drama Month" from September 17 to 20. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary, the nine people set their eyes on the creation of "many years later" when the story of "Four Machines" came to an end. The three protagonists of this drama, Cheng Wuyou, Lang Shiyi, and Lu Bo'an, all had innocent and brave youth. They have also made a wish to build a new world of freedom and equality. Twenty years of changes in the situation have witnessed their tacit friendship with each other and facing the darkness, but they have also contributed to the evolution and diversion of each other's concepts and the separation of friendship. The night in the Jiangning local detention center described in "The Tale of the Two Wings" is not only a struggle between the three people's intellect and position, but also a struggle between their emotions and memories.
From "Four Machines" in 2019, to "Spring Death" in 2020, and then to "Double Maple" in 2021, the characters in the "Drama Nine" Republic of China universe have appeared one after another. Under the consistent humanistic and historical view of the "Nine People" Series of works of the Republic of China, it tells the fate and choice of individuals in the turbulent years.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
Edited by Wu Longzhen Proofreader Liu Jun