Group photo of the main creator of the drama "Wilderness" Shi Chunyang
Beijing, October 12 (China News Network) -- On the 12th, the third part of the "opening trilogy" of the Beijing Renyi Cao Yu Theater, the new row of "Wilderness", held a media meeting. Young director Yan Rui, with a full young cast of young actors - Jin Han, Zhang Keying, Fu Yao, Lei Jia, Lian Xudong, Wei Jiacheng and so on met with the media for the first time.
As another new attempt in the "New Theater", "Wilderness" will bring the audience a stage perspective of a young creator and the eternal charm of Cao Yu's classic plays.
Beijing Renyi re-arranged "The Wilderness" by Li Chunguang
Old works are newly presented
From "Sunrise" and "Thunderstorm" to the staged "Wilderness", Beijing Renyi embodies an open and innovative attitude with a new presentation of a series of Cao Yu's classic works, allowing the audience to feel that the classics are inexhaustible and endless. In the view of young director Yan Rui, "one play and one soul" is the biggest charm of Cao Yu's works, and grasping the soul of the play lays the style and style of the work.
"'Wilderness' is a relatively rare work in Cao Yu's works that use the countryside as the background of creation, and it has expressionist and symbolist techniques from the text, providing a lot of space and multiple possibilities for the second degree of creation." Yan Rui said. Let the audience feel the original vitality full of "earthy" sense, "return to human nature, and express the grand proposition of life that people have longed for life and the release of death, through the perspective of young people, reflect the sense of the times, and present the most sincere and simple stage expression." ”
Psychological time and space and mysterious atmosphere
All along, "Wilderness" is widely regarded as the "most difficult to perform" work written by Mr. Cao Yu, which not only has a profound excavation and reflection on human nature, but also is full of symbolism and mystery.
According to reports, from the content to the form, the new row of "Wilderness" uses the combination of freehand and realism to externalize the spatial, psychological and realistic imagery.
"When we are on the stage, we are actually showing the relationship between heaven, earth and people." Yan Rui said that through the performance of actors and stage means, a psychological feeling and the surrounding environment are integrated. Among them, the sense of mystery and fear runs through the whole process, creating a unique atmosphere that belongs to "The Wilderness", as the critic said of "The Wilderness", "Here, fear is an invisible flower snake". Let the audience be able to blend in, to perceive the atmosphere, so as to enter the spiritual world of the people in the play.
"Where the gold is laid"
The new row of "Wilderness" really reflects the stage energy of the young creative team of Beijing Renyi. Among them are the new forces who have recently entered the hospital, and there are also the young generation that have been accumulating and matured on the stage of human arts. As the first young director to independently direct a drama in Beijing Renyi, Yan Rui not only had a series of stage images that audiences were familiar with and loved before, but also received widespread attention for co-directing and starring in "The Death of a Famous Artist".
Jin Han, who plays Qiu Hu, in recent years, has been well known and recognized by the audience with the roles of Er Dezi in "Tea House", Lu Dahai in "Thunderstorm", Xiangzi in "Camel Xiangzi"; Zhang Keying, the actor of Hua Jinzi, is a newcomer who only joined the theater this year, and it is worth looking forward to the audience for the first time to play such a role; Fu Yao, who plays Jiao Mu, has a variety of role types on the stage, and has performed well in Chinese and foreign dramas such as "Doll's House", "Hypnosis", "Community Neighborhood Committee"; and young actor Lei Jia and "The Wilderness" More with an incomprehensible fate, he played the role of Jiao Daxing in the previous version of "Wilderness". As a young "veteran" in the crew, his years of polishing on the stage and the stage experience of playing different roles have become the accumulation of this performance; coupled with Chang Wuye played by Lian Xudong and the white fool played by Wei Jiacheng, the creative team they formed was both young and full of courage to face challenges.
Such a combination makes the new row of "Wilderness" not only a well-known work for the audience, but also a set of fresh and familiar stage faces. When it comes to how to create, the young people use the lines of the characters in the play - to go to "the place where the gold is laid." During the rehearsal process, they exchanged with each other, discussed together, and ran to their own "poetry and distance" with full momentum.
It is reported that this work will meet the audience at the Cao Yu Theater of Beijing International Theater Center on October 30. (End)
Source: China News Network