Dai Zhanshou is a famous national first-class director of Taiyuan Experimental Theater, director Dai has been in Pear Garden for nearly 60 years, and has been engaged in directing work for 30 spring and autumn. He is an artist who is full of persistent pursuit of Jin opera art, loyal to inheriting traditions, courageous in reform and innovation, constantly climbing peaks, and outstanding achievements.
As early as the early 1960s, I admired Mr. Dai's superb acting skills many times, but I knew it late, and in the early 1990s, he was a director of the Experimental Youth Jin Opera Troupe, and I only got to know him through the introduction of my old friend Yang Youcai and the old artist. Soon, he helped me hand over a manuscript to a certain journal, and introduced me to the editor-in-chief, which had published more than ten articles for me, and later, Hu Chang'e's "Jinyang Art Troupe" asked us to help. After staying there for a while, it happened that director Dai Zhanshou was rehearsing a play for Hu Chang'e's troupe, and I had the opportunity to watch his directing techniques, gain a better understanding of Mr. Dai's artistic career, and have an understanding of the work of directing.
Drama is an indispensable spiritual food for the Chinese nation, as if all the beautiful things in the world are included in the play. It includes literature, art, music, acting, for a long time, the drama interprets China's historical events and folklore, has become an important part of traditional Chinese culture, the majority of the audience for the superb performance of the actors on the stage clapped applause, but few people know how much effort and sweat this good play poured into the director, so the director is a real unsung hero
The script of a play, it is like a piece of unprocessed jade wool, the director is like a skilled craftsman, through the craftsman's exquisite carving can make this piece of jade a valuable national treasure. Therefore, a good script still needs the director's processing, compensation, and re-creation to be successful. Director Dai Zhanshou is worthy of a skilled craftsman, and the plays he poured out with hard work and sweat are often praised and favored by insiders. This has a lot to do with his extensive involvement in various trades and rich stage experience, and we can appreciate his broad drama path and superb art from his artistic career.
In 1942, Dai Zhanshou was born in Nanzhuang Village, Wenshui County, the birthplace of Jin opera, from childhood by the drama of his hometown, became a veritable fan of drama, at the age of twelve was admitted to taiyuan opera school to learn XiaoDan, after entering the school, received standardized basic skills training, because he was smart and studious, hard and serious, practiced a solid foundation, and then because of the abandonment of male Dan, instead of singing Xu Sheng, under the careful teaching of Ding Guoxian's master Mr. Sun Zhulin, he learned to perform Xusheng, and played a leading role in plays such as "Empty City Plan", "Ming Gongjue", "Counting Grain Dengdian" and other plays. After graduating from the drama school in 1961, Dai Zhanshou was assigned to work in the Taiyuan Experimental Jin Opera Troupe, and he successfully played Zhuge Liang in "The Empty City Plan", which was recognized by the audience and praised by his predecessors.
People often say that there are unexpected storms in the sky, and just when Dai Zhanshou showed his outstanding talent in the art of Xusheng, there was a problem with his throat, which could not be restored after several adjustments. In order to make the stage art continue, I had no choice but to sing flower faces, and in the past, the jin opera industry shelf flower face (erhua face) was relatively weak. Because the rack flower face is mainly workmanship, it is very difficult, and the middle road zi flower face performance is relatively simple, in order to promote the flower face performance art, Dai Zhanshou is determined to break a new road in the flower face performance. So he carefully observed the superb acting skills of the brother drama genre Erhua Face, absorbed the nutrition of the brother drama genre, and enriched his own performing arts. He has humbly consulted Wang Zhengkui, Yang Hushan and other famous masters; At the same time, he was instructed by the famous Peking Opera artist Liu Kuiguan; Later, he worshiped the Master of Peking Opera Yuan Shihai as his teacher, and he was even more successful. After diligent study and hard work, the skills have developed by leaps and bounds. His flower face appears, which gives people a sense of novelty and chicness, with its full temperament, beautiful and handsome body, moving look, steady and atmospheric typhoon, skillfully creating a flesh and blood, lifelike stage character image. He successfully portrayed Xue Gang and Zhang Long in "Xue Gang Anti-Dynasty", The Blue-faced Tiger in "Tongtian Rhinoceros", Wang Wen in "The Female General of Yangmen", Shaun in "Killing the Family", Zhang Fei in "Lu Huadang", He Zongbing in "The Card of Life and Death", Han Chang in "The Pregnant Daughter of the Great Sword King", Zhang Dingbian in "Jiujiangkou", Wei Chigong in "Visiting the White Robe", Lei Gang in "Cuckoo Mountain", Li Yongqi in "Zhi Dare To Wei Tiger Mountain" and dozens of other characters. In particular, the power of the big knife is extraordinary, which is a must. In the characters he portrays, regardless of the size, identity, status, and encounters of the characters, they can be interpreted by him to stimulate the excitement and admiration of the audience, and it is not difficult to see the charm of his art and the wide range of impressions.
Just as he was striving for excellence in the art of the face of the flower, climbing the peak and reaching a higher level, the doom of "inverted choking" came again, his voice was completely hoarse, so he was forced to leave the beloved stage, after which he worked as a custodian, accountant, blowing black pipe in the troupe, serving as the head of the business group, and as an instructor. Thank you for "telling me to do well, to do well." However, his love and pursuit of drama did not change, and he began to devote himself to directing. Everyone in the industry knows that directing is not a simple job. A play, from the beginning to the end, requires the director's ideas and ideas to arrange its center and focus. The ups and downs of the plot in the play, the mood of the plot, where the plot should develop to the climax, etc. all have to be formulated by the director. The director must first thoroughly understand the theme of the script before he can formulate a specific situation in the play, and with the above arrangements, he can create a play. The success of this play, the director is the key.
Dai Zhanshou has rich stage experience and a high theoretical level. He has a unique perspective on drama and guides the drama to be familiar with the road. The first play he directed, "Killing The Stagecoach", showed his unique talent as a director.
"Killing Yi" is a fold in the traditional play "Spring and Autumn Pen", which is about the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Song Dynasty loyal minister Wang Yanchen was kind to Wu Cheng'en, similar in appearance, and had a very thick relationship. Later, Wu Cheng'en became the postmaster of the post, and when Wang Yanchen was framed by the traitors in the dynasty, he was sent to charge the army and passed through the post. Wu Cheng'en learned that the traitors were going to execute Wang Yanchen at the station. Wu Cheng'en remembered his old feelings and died for his loyalists. The story of his own death, this drama was the masterpiece of Liu Baoshan (Twelve Reds) and Ding Guoxian before liberation. It is said that the Peking Opera master Ma Lianliang admired Liu Baoshan's "Spring and Autumn Pen" very much and also asked Liu for advice. After liberation, no one in the Jin opera circle staged this play again, only Yan Fengchun, a famous artist of Pu opera, performed this play. In the play, he gave full play to the skills of blowing beard, glaring, hair, tail, wings and other stunts, which were deeply loved by the audience and became Mr. Yan's housekeeper. Director Dai Zhanshou's "Killing Yi" did not completely depart from tradition, he integrated traditional drama and contemporary art aesthetics into the play, creatively cooperating with the ideological and emotional content of the characters: he changed the original concept of "repaying favors" to "sacrifice himself for the country and the people" to save Zhongliang; In the past, it was mainly based on reading white, and the reform was changed into a large section of ups and downs, to pour out Wu Cheng'en's complex, anxious and painful mood, which greatly enriched and strengthened the expression of art. After the performance of this drama caused a sensation, quite shocking, the audience rushed to watch, "Killing Yi" was broadcast on the provincial television station, and received unanimous praise from audiences and experts inside and outside the province, after which Li Yuexian took this drama to Beijing, Xi'an and other places to perform, and her amazing performance was highly praised. The success of the "Killing Stage" drama made the old audience see the hope of Jin opera, and the young people also became interested in the drama, and later Dai Zhanshou rehearsed the play for the young actor Xie Tao, which made Xie Tao win the gold medal and lay the foundation for him to win the "Plum Blossom Award".
After Dai Zhanshou's directorial debut was greatly successful, he then directed a new classical story drama "Qi Wang Rama". In the Spring and Autumn Period, King Xuan of Qi coveted beauty and listened to the rumors of adulterous concubines. The invincible general Zhong Wuyan was cut to the post of a civilian. The State of Lu took advantage of the false face to enter the army and besiege the State of Qi. When the country was in danger, King Xuan of Qi was able to know and correct his mistakes, and asked Zhong Wuyan to go out on a campaign accompanied by the old Chengxiang TianBao, in order to show remorse and correction of his mistakes, the king of Qi fell into stirrups for the mother of the country, jointly resisted the enemy, and eliminated the story of internal traitors.
In the past, there were many emperors like King Xuan of Qi who made such mistakes, but there were not many people who could know and correct them. So King Qi Yi still has something cute. Dai Zhanshou's "Qi Wang Rama" did not portray The King of Qi as a dusk, but created a comedy character with absurd behavior, in the play, the famous performance artist Li Yuexian played by Qi Xuanwang and Gao Cuiying, Wu Zhong played by Zhong Wuyan, Tian Bao all vividly portrayed a character with different personalities, and the superb acting skills of the three of them were fully utilized in a play, which was refreshing and greatly loved by the audience. Since then, the major theaters have competed to rehearse, and the performances have not faded to this day. The play has become a reserved repertoire of Jin opera and has become an artistic masterpiece of the Moxibustion population. He played a positive role in the development of Jin opera, thus overcoming the drawbacks of the new drama only to cater to the performance, specially for the expert judges to appreciate, and did not become the past practice of sealing the box after the performance and not meeting with the audience.
Dai Zhanshou also directed plays such as "Three Shangshang Caravan" and "Sister Jiang" for Hu Chang'e, and paid a certain amount of effort for Hu Chang'e to win the "Plum Blossom Award", after which he rehearsed dozens of plays such as "Qin Xianglian", "Confession to the Emperor", "Chopping Dou'e", "Ling Shed Society", "Liu Xiuchuan", "Han Palace Horror", "Cheng Biting Jin Give way", "Zhu Yuanzhang Beheading Son-in-law" and so on, all of which were successful, and the plays he directed won awards many times, and with the success of the director, his fame grew, jinzhong, Lüliang, Xinzhou, The great equals competed to invite him to direct the play.
Dai Zhanshou has directed for more than thirty years, although he has made outstanding achievements, he is never satisfied, still for the cause of Jin opera, hard work, the ancient rare years are ready to create more artistic masterpieces, for the cause of Jin opera, ancient tree evergreen efforts to do a small part.