In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, on the evening of June 28, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, produced by the Yuhuatai Martyrs Cemetery Administration, and co-produced by Nanjing Radio and Television Group and Zilu Drama, the large-scale original historical drama "Changming" was rehearsed at the Nanjing Zilu Yuhua Dream Theater.
The play is written by Li Xiangmin, a famous screenwriter and vice president of Nanjing Academy of the Arts, With Feng Mian, the founder of Zilu Drama, as the screenwriter, and the famous director Yin Hongyi as the director, the play leads everyone to relive the beacon years with innovative stage artistic expressions. The Nanjing snack element in the play also seems to take the audience back to the Nanjing City of that era and see a group of vivid, warm, and grounded communists.
Time and space reconstruction interprets the real history of the Nanjing Party
From 1927 to 1934, the ccp's nanjing underground party organization suffered eight major damages, each of which was quickly restored and rebuilt. A large number of Communist Party members and members of the Communist Youth League were arrested and sacrificed, including the six principal responsible persons of the party organizations, who used their lives to relay the nanjing party organizations to stand tall in the bloody rain and wind. Eight secretaries, six martyrs, one missing, the only survivor Huang Yifeng became the biggest suspect.
Taking the second secretary, Huang Yifeng, the drama "Changming" as a clue, the drama "Changming" hooks up the heroic deeds of Xie Wenjin, Sun Jinchuan, Huang Ruisheng, Li Jiping, Li Yunsheng, Gu Heng, and other six secretaries from their appointment to their arrest, and they are not afraid of sacrifice, and the propaganda and education of revolutionarism and idealism are embedded in vivid stage performances and presented to the audience.
Breaking with conventional linear narrative methods, the play deconstructs and reassembles historical events, creating a special space connecting life and death, history and reality, where the secretaries of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the underground party party meet. They discussed the connotations of revolution, the gains and losses of work, the sacrifices of the past, and at the same time checked for traitors.
Li Xiangmin, chief screenwriter of "Changming" and vice president of Nanjing University of the Arts, said that in the process of watching the performance, the audience will have a sense of substitution and interaction, and will follow the development of the plot step by step into the inner world of the characters, causing thinking about the original intention and faith.
The script stage design restores historical details
Realism is a major feature of the show. The drama "Changming" restores historical details according to historical materials, and most of the lines or plots are what the martyrs said and experienced. Sheng Fan, a young drama actor who plays Sun Jinchuan in the play, introduced that Secretary Sun Jinchuan has only been in office for one month, and the mark left in the long river of history is too weak. In the early stage, the crew read a large number of historical materials, visited old party members, and restored the character's personality through the experience and occupation of the characters, such as Sun Jinchuan went to the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau as a worker when he was young, and was simple and pragmatic in words and deeds, clothing design, which was in stark contrast with Xie Wenjin, who had experienced staying in suzhou.
The play is equally realistic in its set and music choices. According to the general director Yin Hongyi, the stage set of this play takes the old city wall of Nanjing as the background, adopts a real-life 3D model and multimedia holographic projection, and restores the true appearance of that turbulent era in a vivid form. Xie Wenjin, the first secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, adapted the Soviet song "Bright Praise" throughout the play, showing the tenacious revolutionary will of the Communists not to fear the darkness in front of them and to fight for light and freedom.
Everyone in the play has their own distinct characters. Because of family background, educational experience, personality encounters and other reasons, the secretaries in the play argue, wander, regret, and excitement, but their loyalty to the party and hatred for the enemy are the same. Luo Wei, the actor of Huang Yifeng in the play, said that every character in this play is very vivid and has room for expression, which avoids direct preaching, but brings the audience into the role and situation through the collision and contradiction of characters and emotions. The elaborate historical details and rich life elements in the play also resonated with the audience present. "In the final scene of the farewell at the platform, there are a lot of local snack elements of old Nanjing, such as chicken juice back to the brine, red bean sugar taro seedlings, salt water duck head, taking me back to the nanjing city of that era, seeing a group of fresh, warm, grounded communists," said a university student audience, "in order to let more people 'eat enough, wear and warm up', they chose to say goodbye to the life and city they loved, and used their blood and sweat to pave the way for a bright future." ”
The fusion of history and reality not only brings the audience into this "life and death" dialogue, but also triggers more thinking about the future. An audience member told reporters that at the end of the play, the dilapidated Nanjing Railway Station drove the Fuxing, and the big screen behind it flashed the achievements of New China, "I think that this train from history is driving towards New China and new life, and is driving towards the bright future for which countless heroes have struggled and paid." I think now and in the future, we can all proudly say to the heroes, 'This is as prosperous as you wish'! ”
The story of party history has been passed down from generation to generation, and the study and education of party history has "come alive" on the stage. It is reported that as a red drama celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, "Changming" will be performed for the first round at the Zilu Yuhua Dream Theater on June 30 and July 1, and will also carry out a national tour in the follow-up, continuing the red blood and making the fire of revolution eternal.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan
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