Why do you have to watch children's dramas when you have cartoons?
Can a child sit still at such a young age?
In addition to watching a hilarity,
Can children really understand?
Talking about children's dramas,
Many parents will have these confusions.
How does drama affect children?
A good children's drama,
Bring children more than sensory experience,
It also allows children to better understand the world.
Stills from "With You"
Whether it is for adults or children, everyone's understanding of the play will be different. Walking into the theater, it is more important to feel than to understand.
What a good children's drama is like
A good children's drama must be able to make children love to watch and parents to like. Children's drama is performed for children to see, aesthetics must be from the perspective of children, the content should meet the children's interests, the theme should be in line with the children's emotional needs, and at the same time, it should be entertaining and educational. Otherwise, no matter how profound the meaning, it is difficult for children to understand and absorb.
Stills from "The Snowman's Wish"
Secondly, excellent children's dramas must have a wonderful audiovisual experience. Children's drama is a comprehensive art, although it is mainly storytelling, but the exquisite design of visual modeling and vocal dance can give it greater artistic charm.
Stills from Once Upon a Time There Was Chaos
The times are developing rapidly, and the children's concepts are constantly being refreshed, their insights are broader, their thinking is more agile, and they are a very intelligent audience group. The creation of children's dramas is by no means pediatric, and if it only tells some old truths and old stories, it will not meet the spiritual needs of contemporary children. Therefore, excellent children's dramas must be bold and innovative and have a certain depth of thought.
What do children go into the theater for?
In the eyes of many people, a person has an artistic atmosphere, and the way of seeing the world will be different. This year's Wuzhen Drama Festival, we can see many parents bringing their children, the multimedia era, information diversification makes children's horizons deeper.
Taking a child into the theater is not to let him understand something, but to feel the artistic atmosphere is the most important. It is necessary to enter the theater and gradually become the way of life of a new generation of children and teenagers.
Stills from "The World Is Between the Sun"
At the Wuzhen Drama Festival, Director Li Jianjun's "Between the World and the Sunset", based on Fassbinder's TV movie of the same name, was very popular with children. The story unfolds in a triple space, and some adults may be a little puzzled in their interpretation, but this does not affect how it looks in the child's understanding.
Is it that the child is excluded from the theater just because he may not understand it, obviously this should not be the case?
Let the child fall in love with the drama, the young director He Qi believes that this is a matter of achievement. This year, He Qi's specially invited play "Thunderbolt" brought at the Wuzhen Drama Festival made many people shine.
Stills from "Thunderbolt"
Now the domestic children's drama market is constantly developing. He Qi introduced that he had spent 4 months with 36 child actors and rehearsed a children's drama. Interestingly, during the rehearsal, the children's delicate mind, beyond the imagination of the expression and creativity, often let him forget that it is rehearsing with the children.
About the impact of theatre education on children? In the view of director Li Jianjun, drama has the function of indoctrination and healing, it is directly communicated with people, and people can understand each other. For children's drama education, he also pointed out that how to develop better in business needs to be explored.
In fact, many Chinese children's theater troupes are still inspired by classic creations and have aged themes. How to continuously produce original content, let children's drama continue to heat up, and show children a diversified repertoire is a direction worth striving for.