National great actors watch the red education theme tea picking drama "Lotus Flower"
Stills from "Lotus And Lotus"
The national great special actor took a group photo with the cast and crew of "And Ti Lotus"
Reporter Chen Cheng reported: During the day, they are either grandfathers who teased Sun, or coal diggers, or masons, or bookkeepers of the village committee, or substitute teachers. At 7:30 p.m., they all came to the Gan zuchang Cadre College in unison, and in a burst of gongs and drums, they took the stage one after another and began a new wonderful performance.
This is a red education theme tea picking drama, called "Lotus Flower", is a self-arranged and self-performed drama of the peasant amateur performance team spontaneously organized by the villagers of Yanbei Village, Fanglou Town, Lianhua County, Pingxiang City, which has a total of 5 acts, namely "Accommodation", "Borrowing Money", "Dividing Fish" and "Thanksgiving", which tells the touching story of Gan Zuchang, the founding general who returned to his hometown as a farmer, and Gong Quanzhen, a national moral model, in the form of a tea picking drama.
On September 6, it was the 154th performance of "Lotus Flower", and unlike in the past, several "great people" appeared in the audience sitting under the stage that night - they were middle-aged Mao Zedong special actor Qian Baolin, Zhou Enlai special actor Li Ning, Liu Shaoqi actor Wang Yonggui, Zhu Dete actor Duan Dongsheng, deng Xiaoping special actor Huang Qiang.
After the performance, in a brief discussion with the cast and crew, Liu Shao's peculiar actor Wang Yonggui, as a representative of the great people's line, summed up his feelings after watching it in two sentences: one small and one large, one short and one long. He said: "A small theater, but a big land stage, four small stories, although short, but left for people to reminisce for a long time, small theater performed a big life; the lyrics are vivid and simple, the tune is catchy, with the people around them to play the people around them, the most believable." ”
Wang Yonggui said that the four short stories have always been closely linked to one word, that is, "love", and the whole drama shows the hard struggle and selfless noble sentiments of Gan Zuchang and Gong Quanzhen, a revolutionary couple, just like the name of this drama, let us see the holy lotus. "I hope that you will continue to perform, let such a moving story infect our party members, infect our cadres, let our cadres remember the purpose of serving the people, and let our party members never forget their original intentions."
Stepping out of the theater, the sound of grass in the village is incessant, and a series of small lanterns along the way illuminate this small mountain village "red". On the way back to the homestay, the "great people" still discussed the performance scene of "Lotus Flower" and praised this red education-themed tea picking drama. Everyone agreed that the storyline of the play has no flowery words, no twists and turns, but has an unusually strong shocking force, which makes it deeply feel the monument of General Gan Zuchang's spirit.
Qian Baolin, a middle-aged Mao Zedong special actor, said: "Using the people around me to tell the stories around me, after watching this play, I was touched by the deeds of General Gan Zuchang and Gong Quanzhen's old aunt, which is a work full of original ecology, and the actors' performances are also very grounded." ”
After watching this drama, Zhou Enlai's special actor Li Ning was deeply touched, and the villagers used simple language to express, with the most authentic emotions to impress the audience, and truly restored the moving scene of General Gan Zuchang and old aunt Gong Quanzhen after returning to their hometown and indifferent to fame and fortune and serving the people. "It is suggested that this play can be toured across the country so that audiences across the country can enjoy these touching stories."
Today's "Lotus Flower" has been a compulsory course for all units to come and participate in the red training roll call, and has also been invited by many units to perform. At present, "Lotus Flower" has been selected into the Ministry of Culture's 2016 annual opera script incubation plan, and at the same time, it has also been listed as one of the 8 key support plays by the Propaganda Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee.