Uncle Vanya 丨 Beijing People's Art Theater
Screenwriter 丨 Chekhov (Russian)
Translator 丨 Jiao Juyin Tong Daoming
Director 丨 Li Liuyi
As one of Chekhov's masterpieces, "Uncle Vanya" has been born for more than a hundred years, and the influence of this work on the whole world has never diminished.
American theater historian Pete Stowwell said: The most essential feature of the play "Uncle Vanya" is that it shows people waiting in still time.
For "Uncle Vanya", which has been adapted and rehearsed many times around the world, what kind of temperament is it under the interpretation and presentation of Beijing Renyi? With his unique aesthetics and interpretation, director Li Liuyi returns the stage to simplicity and nature, allows the characters to intersect time and space in stillness and flow, and allows the audience to calm down and get closer to the essence of Chekhov and enter an eternal spiritual world.
Video 丨 Actors in the play talk about "Uncle Vanya"
Pu Cunxin 丨 Lu Fang 丨 Niu Piao 丨 Kong Wei
Pu Cunxin: "Uncle Vanya" is one of my favorite works, and this version of "Uncle Vanya" is unique, its stage is a different space, completely using the performance of the actors to let people feel the scene of the theater at this moment.
Lu Fang: As an actor in the space where there is a pause on the stage, sometimes the mind will follow the plot, and sometimes it will jump out, like the audience to feel everyone in this pause.
Niu Piao: Director Li Liuyi's approach is a major feature of this "Uncle Vanya", he requires the actors' performances to be particularly real and concrete, but removes those specific props.
Convi: This "Uncle Vanya" can be used as a "lifetime" for my stage performance. At one point, I suddenly felt like I wasn't on stage, I seemed to be able to see myself, and there seemed to be a powerful current coming up behind me from the left side of the stage and pushing me. I said that line unexpectedly well, a feeling I had never felt in my previous acting experience.
▲ Stills of Beijing Renyi's "Uncle Vanya"
The Beijing Renyi version of the drama "Uncle Vanya" was premiered in 2015, from the initial audience is not very accustomed to this drama to every re-performance since then, it has been constantly refreshed with praise and admiration, we are sure that this is a "Vanya Uncle" that is enduring and really worthy of entering the theater to experience.
As Pu Cunxin, the actor who plays "Uncle Vanya" in the play, said: When there is a new interpretation between the very familiar words and lines, it will be ecstatic to find a new angle. Drama can be refined in a constant repetition and derive new meaning from it.
[Synopsis]
For twenty-five years, Vanya worked diligently, running her deceased sister's estate with her niece, Sonia, sending all her meager income to her brother-in-law, Sonia's father, the professor who was far away in the city, Serebryakov. Vanya was proud to have supported a gifted scholar until the retired professor returned to the countryside with her young lady, Yelena.
The professor's settlement upset the balance of manor life and vanya's illusory ideals. Vanya finds that the professor she admires is just a mediocre, and he feels remorse, anger, and failure for spending his life in vain; Sonia is also bitter because her crush, as a village doctor, and her uncle Vanya are admiring Yelena.
Unable to adapt to country life, the professor decides to sell his wife's manor to maintain his life in the city, and vanya, who has been deceived, cannot bear the reality of being abandoned after exhausting his youth, and raises the gun in his hand to the professor...
The professor eventually left the manor with his wife, and Vanya resumed his work to support the professor. Sonia looks ahead to the hope of tomorrow to appease her uncle in pain...
Uncle Vanya
Beijing People's Art Theatre
Screenwriter: Chekhov (Russian)
Translators: Jiao Juyin, Tong Daoming
Director: Li Liuyi
Stage Design: Li Liuyi Gong Xun (Invited)
Lighting design: Fang Yi
Costume/Styling: Lawrence Hsu (invited)
actor:
Pu Cunxin Lu Fang Niu Piao (special guest) Kong Wei
Li Shilong Xia Liyan Li Zhen Wu Peng (special guest) Wang Ning
Performance information
Performance time: 2018.9.7-9.16
(Closed every night at 19:30 on Mondays)
Venue: Capitol Theatre
Price: RMB 680/580/480/380/280/180/80
Student ticket: 40 RMB (admission with your student ID)
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