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Looking for "Wei Liansheng"
"Returning to the People on a Snowy Night" is one of the masterpieces of the famous dramatist Wu Zuguang, created in 50 years, and was staged in Beijing Renyi in the 0s of the last century. Focusing on the famous singer Wei Liansheng, Wu Zuguang unfolds the joys and sorrows of several characters with timeless and profound pen and ink: in the turbulent era, Wei Liansheng has seen the prosperity of cooking oil with fire, and also tasted the loneliness of wine and people, and the entanglement between him and the bureaucratic aunt Yuchun, their awakening and resistance are a tragic song written with life.
"This classic contains a lot of discussions about life, love and fate, and it is a very romantic and poignant Chinese story." Feng Yuanzheng said. For him and Beijing Renyi, "Returning on a Snowy Night" is a very relevant work - 2012 years, "Returning on a Snowy Night" was staged as a celebration drama for the fifth anniversary of the opening and operation of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, and among the main creative team at that time, the director was Ren Ming, the former president of Beijing Renyi, Feng Yuanzheng, Liang Danni, Cheng Lisha, Yan Rui, Li Jinfeng and other artists participated in the performance. ""Returning to the People on a Snowy Night" has not gone out of fashion, and Dean Ren Ming and I have discussed it for a long time, wanting to restore this work in Renyi." Feng Yuanzheng revealed that the reason why Renyi has not rehearsed "Returning to the People on a Snowy Night" for many years is that "the biggest difficulty is that there is no suitable Wei Liansheng." The opera actor is the most prominent feature of this role, with a mouth and a hand, you have to let everyone know that he is an opera actor, this kind of atmosphere cannot be extinguished, and it is not something that other actors can do after studying for three months. ”
In the National Centre for the Performing Arts' version of "Returning to the People on a Snowy Night", Wei Liansheng is played by Yu Shaoqun, who was born in Chinese opera, but in Beijing Renyi, "We didn't find a candidate among the existing young actors. Feng Yuanzheng kept this matter in his heart for many years, until he met Liu Heng by chance, "For a moment, I felt that he was different, he was Wei Liansheng." Liu Heng is from the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater, and this is the first time he has been invited to appear in Renyi repertoire, "Beijing Renyi adopts an open attitude towards the selection of talents, we hope to invite excellent and suitable actors to cooperate, and at the same time, let the young people of Renyi go to the center of the stage through their works, so that their growth can be recognized by the audience." Feng Yuanzheng said.
Deep integration of opera elements to show the aesthetic artistic conception
"The opera pays great attention to stylized performances, I am a martial artist, and there is more programmed content." Liu Heng said. From opera to drama, one of the biggest challenges he encountered was to deal with the lines, Kunqu opera has rhyme, but the drama should be close to life, natural and vivid, "The director has been helping me pick out the lines, and everyone has been helping me how to fit the performance form of the drama in details." In the words of director Yan Rui, he expects to "use the elegance of opera to express poetic feelings and quiet drama rhyme on the stage".
""Returning to the People on a Snowy Night" has a poetic beauty, its stage artistic conception is freehand, concise, and concise, and we don't use too many so-called scientific and technological means." Yan Rui said. Different from traditional realist works, "Returning to the People on a Snowy Night" highlights the traditional Chinese aesthetic connotation, uses modern light and shadow to construct the imagination space of the whole drama, and superimposes the third perspective of the jump between reality and non-reality, further enriching the expression level of the work.
This quiet and focused atmosphere makes Li Hongtao, who plays Su Hongji, very calm. Over the years, he has been quite active in the field of film and television dramas, "I have been wandering outside for a long time, and returning to the stage of Renyi is another deep dig of my acting skills." Li Hongtao also has another sense of mission, he and Liang Danni, who plays Aunt Ma, are one of the few "old people" in the crew, and they will inevitably take over the responsibility of bringing the old with the new. Liang Danni didn't want to put on the shelf of her predecessors, but first asked herself: "You have to do a good job in yourself to be qualified to talk about helping young actors." Regardless of whether the protagonist or the supporting role, there are many or few plays, we must lead by example, and young people will naturally learn when they see what we are doing well. ”
Put the "family background" on the stage and pass it on
With the creation and rehearsal of "Returning to the People on a Snowy Night", Beijing Renyi's "Classic Repertoire Recovery Plan" was officially launched. "In recent years, Renyi has launched a lot of new plays, especially in the field of small theater. Maybe the audience will have questions, will there be less content in the future? We want to tell you that Renyi has never given up on integrity. Feng Yuanzheng said. In the future, on the one hand, the "plan" will restore the "museum repertoire" through "absolute reproduction" to preserve the original appearance of the classics; On the other hand, it will be like "Returning on a Snowy Night", a new lineup will be launched to carry out a modern interpretation of the classics and inject vitality into the classics.
In the second half of the year, the second work "Camel Xiangzi" launched by the "plan" is an attempt to "absolutely reproduce", the crew will continue to use the former scenery, costumes, makeup, inheritance of the most quintessential acting style of Beijing people's art, and fully show the style of the old man's art. Feng Yuanzheng said that the theater also wants to speed up the pace of training young actors, through the experience of the rich charm of classic repertoire, understand the history of human arts, the younger generation can better understand the precious "family foundation" left by old artists, and better complete the inheritance of the "Beijing Renyi Drama School".