It's a comedic killing...
The mysterious meeting of 4 women with a "generation gap"...
Men and women, their respective secret comedies are reversed
In fact, there is often more than one truth...
An Italian story written by a Korean is rehearsed by Chinese
Yang Lixin directed the drama "Their Secret"
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Yang Lixin: This is a comedic melodrama. We tried our best to show the situation constructed by the playwright.
Niu Li: There are a lot of events in this play. Drama is different from sketches, it requires more character shaping.
△ Stills from the drama "Their Secret"
Niu Li made her stage comedy debut in "Their Secrets" this time, and she said that she starred in this drama on the one hand because the script was very interesting, and on the other hand, Yang Lixin was a director, which also reassured her in quality.
—— "Jia Zhiguo", who does not do an actor, is a good director
"I Love My Home"
Yang Lixin plays Jia Zhiguo
Yang Lixin has been on the road of acting for more than 30 years since he officially participated in the TV series, and many Chinese audiences have become familiar with Yang Lixin from "I Love My Home", in the first sitcom of this Chinese mainland, Yang Lixin vividly portrayed Jia Zhiguo, an ordinary intellectual in the era of reform tide.
Jia Zhiguo's image allows us to see Yang Lixin's talent in comedy, but the intellectuals of that era are not all so "fun", in last year's popular high-rating TV series "Big River", Yang Lixin played another type of intellectual in the early days of reform and opening up - Secretary Shui, an old cadre who cherished his talents. In the play, several sets of clothes worn by Secretary Shui are Yang Lixin's own collection.
△ Stills of "Big Rivers and Big Rivers"
On the film and television and drama stages, Yang Lixin has not paused and slackened, perhaps he has played too many roles, and he will not talk too much about a specific character, but he can talk for half a day when it comes to interpreting the performance experience of these characters.
△ Played Zhou Puyuan in "Thunderstorm"
Cheng Madman, a down-and-out drum book artist in "Dragon Sugou"
The big voice with the special skills in "The Stage"
Played Second Master Qin in "Tea House"
Yang Lixin has his own opinions and experience in acting. In 2013, Beijing Renyi re-arranged the drama "Xiaojing Hutong" again, and Yang Lixin officially became a director for the first time. From the rehearsal of "Xiaojing Hutong", we began to understand Yang Lixin's way of directing, he required the performance to make an accurate interpretation of the script, and where there was no stage prompt in the text, he would combine the real situation analysis from the performance perspective, and strive to achieve a high degree of unity and integration between performance and script, actor and audience, drama and reality. After "Xiaojing Hutong", Yang Lixin directed the dramas "Archway" and "Tea House", and also served as the performance director of many theatrical works. If "Xiaojing Hutong" allows the audience to re-recognize Yang Lixin outside of the actor's identity, the subsequent works have made the audience affirm his directing talent.
—— Yang Lixin, who is picky about the script
—— Why "Their Secret"?
The story of Yang Lixin's new play "Their Secret" is derived from the acclaimed absurd comedy "The Secret of Flowers" abroad, and the playwright is the famous Korean film director and screenwriter Jang Jin. The content is about the mysterious meeting of four women of different ages after the Italians went to the ball game and encountered a traffic accident...
In Yang Lixin's view, the screenwriter of this script is very good at writing drama, it is in line with the classical "Trinity", but also presents an "alternative" temperament, according to the logic of reality, the story direction will not happen to the kind of ending written for the script, but in this drama everything is reasonable. Including the 4 women in the play, such people are very rare in our daily lives, but each of them makes you feel particularly familiar.
Yang Lixin said: "This play is still very warm, very humane, and very women's sense of independent life. ”
What are their secrets?
"Their Secret" brings together 4 actresses who coexist in beauty and talent: Gong Lijun, a performing artist who is known as the "Drama Queen of Beijing Renyi" and won the Golden Lion Award for Chinese Drama, played the role of Sophia; and Niu Li, who has starred in dozens of film and television works such as "Empty Mirror" and "Breaking into guandong", is a powerful actor in the hearts of the audience, and plays another heroine Monica; Lang Ling, the only actress in the drama "Drama Stage", plays Jia Simin in this drama; Liu Jingshi, a national second-level actor and host of Shenyang Radio and Television Station , playing the little sister Gina in the play.
In this drama where men receive box lunches at the beginning, how do male characters exist?
- Possessed by 4 women.
It sounds a bit magical, but the gender reversal in the play is undoubtedly a highlight. This approach also reinforces the thought-provoking tragedy behind the performance of comedy, allowing the common anxiety of women to enter the audience's heart with laughter.
Four ordinary women, underneath the seemingly ordinary life, is a turbulent dark tide, each person's marriage relationship is hidden in the secret, when the balance of the marriage relationship is broken, the secret gushes out like a tide, eventually resulting in a ridiculous absurd drama, but also let people have to examine the deeper social and human issues after these secrets.
- Oh my God,
Women all over the world are in marital trouble?
"Their Secrets" is a bit peculiar, its screenwriter is Korean, the story takes place in Italy, but in Chinese the dilemmas faced in the play are common.
A few days ago, the Civil Affairs Bureau counted that the divorce rate in Beijing has reached 48.3%, and the discussion of the marriage system and marriage relationship has once again become a hot topic. The anxiety and uneasiness of modern women in social relations is always an insoluble dilemma, but through the stories of others, through dramatic presentation, we will find a way to release or an outlet for relaxation.
In "Their Secrets", the voices of women are very noteworthy. In every marital relationship, women and men have secrets that no one knows. This seemingly absurd comedy discusses the hardships and bitterness of women in society and marriage, showing their forbearance and tenacity in the face of suffering; the drama "Their Secrets" examines the ratio of the structure of men and women in the social family with their respective social forces from the perspective of married women... At the same time, with the ridicule and humor in the play, we can glimpse the hardships of life.
─ Woman? man? See how everyone's secrets comedically reversed --
Synopsis
The story is about four women in a small village in northwestern Italy who, together with their husbands, make a living making wine and live an ordinary life in the village. One day at the end of the year, four women who thought their husbands were going to the stadium to watch a ball game were partying together, and they accidentally received a phone call, and all the men had a traffic accident on the road. Coinciding with the medical examination of all the men on the insurance the next day, the women were shocked and flustered, and a plan was born; so the four families' untold stories were mixed together, and in the face of the huge debts and agricultural affairs they would face in their future lives, they finally reached an agreement, and began to secretly negotiate to pretend to be their husbands in order to get the insurance money of their husbands. Thus the irony of the story that happened with the people of the insurance company.
Cast
(Role Comparison)
Gong Lijun as Sophia
Niu Li as Monica
Lang Ling as Gasmin
Liu Jingshi as Gina
Qu Zhi as Doctor/Coach
Li Xuege as Nurse/Journalist
Cast list
Producer/Producer: Chen Shihan
Chief Planner: Xu Haisong, Sun Weiwen
Original: Jang Jin (Han)
Translator: An article
Director: Yang Lixin
Assistant Director: Tang He
Stage Design: Yang Juntao
Lighting design: Chen Lin
Styling design: Liu Yu
Music Design: Chen Xiaotian
Stage Supervisor: Jia Cheng
Stage Design Assistant: Chen Cheng
Field Note: Tang Jiaqi
Lighting Engineer: Zong Ye'an
Costumer: Jiang Wenrong
Makeup artists: Wang Yuhang, Zhang Wen, Shi Gengxi
Sound Engineer: Liu Yelin
Assistant stage supervisors: Ren Zhe, Li Erbin
Graphic Design: Liu Pan
Poster photography: Bean Shaoqun
Production company: Datong Culture
Co-producer: mailive
Performance time: March 19, 2019 - March 24, 2019 19:30
Venue: Capitol Theatre
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