After watching "New Liu Sanjie", the president of Shanghai Opera Art Center and the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe Changgu could not sleep for a long time, "The classic melody has always appeared in my mind. As soon as the lead actor opened his mouth, my eye sockets were moist. On October 5th and 6th, Guangxi Drama Theater's color tune drama "New Liu Sanjie" debuted in Shanghai and participated in the Shanghai exhibition of excellent new stage works of "Art Rising Forward".
The well-known movie "Liu Sanjie" was originally based on the color tune drama "Liu Sanjie". Color tune drama is a unique drama in Guangxi, a mountain song, a dance, a handkerchief, a flower fan, can write the happiness of the people on the cheeks. The sisters Mei, Alang and Mo Fei in "New Liu Sanjie", a girl who stays in her hometown and is concerned about the distance, a young man who bids farewell to her hometown and goes to a distant place to find poetry, and an e-commerce company that inserts fashion wings for mountain songs, interprets the adherence of contemporary Zhuangxiang people to mountain songs, the love of the green mountains and rivers in their hometown, and the pursuit of a better life. The play premiered in September 2019, completed the first revision and upgrading in December, and was selected as a key support play of the National Stage Art Creation Support Project in 2020.
Chen Hui, the heroine of "New Liu Sanjie", is a disciple of Sun Yumin, a performance artist of the Xun School of Peking Opera, who performs color dramas across borders, and she said that there have been earth-shaking changes. In the play, Chen Hui has nearly 40 singing segments, "Peking Opera performance and body presentation, which helped me a lot."
Chang Jianjun, honorary chairman of the Guangxi Dramatists Association and screenwriter of "New Liu Sanjie", graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy in 1988, said that "New Liu Sanjie" shaped a new youth temperament that strives to pursue happiness on the basis of Guangxi characteristics. Composer Fu Tao let the character sing rock and rap in "New Liu Sanjie", join the big band, complete the electronic music, symphony cooperation, "want to inherit, develop, surpass the classic, need to be honest and innovative, according to the folk song material continues to derive." ”
"Whether it is a new performance of an old play or a new row of old plays, the spirit and value left to us by the classics will bring a strong source to future creation." Gu Haohao said that "New Liu Sanjie" can bring inspiration to Shangkun Chuangpai's "Red Detachment of Women". Zhang Fan, director of the Shanghai Peking Opera House, felt the musical atmosphere at the scene of "New Liu Sanjie", "very smooth, the eyes are bright, and each paragraph of the whole play has a small climax, similar to the practice of musical theater." The script, the director, the music, the choreography, the costumes, and many other good ones, superimposed together, can present a good play on the stage. ”
Before watching "New Liu Sanjie", Liang Hongjun, director of Shanghai Yue Theatre, thought that this might be a story of "new bottled old wine", and after watching it, he felt that the play belonged to "new bottles of new wine", "The new story uses the original tune of "Liu Sanjie" to regenerate from the basic plot, and this 'new' represents a completely different vitality." When I watched it, I felt familiar and refreshing. It is both a color tune drama, a mountain song play, and a musical, and the diverse combination has no sense of violation. When Wu Wei, general secretary of the party branch of the Shanghai Shanghai Theater, watched "New Liu Sanjie", a little girl sitting behind him said to her mother, "So beautiful, like the wings of a dragonfly", this sentence impressed Wu Wei, "'New Liu Sanjie' integrates the hometown and the distant, the tradition and the modern, inheritance and development very comfortably, and the use of the balance car pulls the interaction between the actors on the stage very fast, and the rhythm is fast. ”
Before entering the Shanghai Grand Theatre, Gao Bowen, head of the Shanghai Bomb Critics Troupe, specially studied the history of color tune drama, "Color tune drama was born in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and after more than 300 years of development to today, "New Liu Sanjie" has a three-dimensional combination of stage presentation. We did the commentary drama "Medical Saint", from the direction of qu art to drama to try and explore. Judging from the history of color drama, we are encouraged to have more confidence, take responsibility and responsibility, and launch stage works that conform to the orientation of contemporary audiences. ”
Guan Yancao, deputy head of the Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe, observed that "New Liu Sanjie" uses a lot of traditional color drama singing voice, and integrates modern pop music elements, which is very aesthetic, laying a good foundation for attracting young audiences, "The lyrics are also very characteristic of Guangxi opera, the writing is very beautiful, and it can be seen that the creative team has a very strong skill."
"New Liu Sanjie" came to Shanghai to perform and mobilized a team of nearly 300 people and 12 heavy buses. Yan Shuang, deputy director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangxi, revealed that the main creator has devoted his heart and soul to the play, and has continuously polished the works since last year to train Guangxi's own team, "The Shanghai exhibition and special discussion and exchange activities are a very worthy practice for us to learn and learn from. After going back, we will actively absorb Shanghai's excellent practices in promoting stage art creation, strive to move forward, and take every step in a down-to-earth manner. ”
Source: Author: Zhuge Yi