Micro -reviews Thirteen Arts | Kunqu "Qu Qiubai": Classical beauty and modern beauty collision and integration

Kunqu "Qu Qiubai" performed stills of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Photo Conferry

Kunqu, as one of the oldest dramas in my country, has gone through hundreds of years of development and has formed a unique aesthetic system. It was born from the aesthetic aesthetics of my country's traditional culture. After careful craftsmanship of writers, musicians, and performing artists, it has become the master of Chinese classical aesthetics. When such an ancient drama, can it still bloom in the era of today? Kunqu "Qu Qiubai" gave us a answer. It allows us to see a wonderful response, a beautiful collision and integration of classical beauty and modern beauty.

Variations of ancient drama structure

In this creation, the screenwriter of the Kunqu "Qu Qiubai" first insisted on the ancient "four -off and one wedge" opera structure, which was stable and neat, without losing the classical charm of Kunqu. At the same time, she also made a breakthrough in the structure of ancient opera because of this subject matter and the special experience of this character.

The play mainly shows the process of encounter in prison and his event in prison after being arrested. The simplicity of the structure of "four % off and one wedge" can be realized when completing such a linear narrative, but Luo Zhou provides room for the inner world of leading the audience to lead the audience into the inner world of a revolutionary martyr. The drama divides each fold for two times "day" and "night". During the day, people are more rational; at night, people are more likely to enter their inner emotions. As a result, the "day" was arranged as a real time and space, and the travel time of Qu Qiubai's arrested incident was the axis. He told the confrontation between Qu Qiubai and the enemy until he gave up his life. "Night" was arranged as a virtual time and space, showing Qu Qiubai's inner world, and when Qu Qiubai faced life and death choices, the most precious affection, friendship and love.

This change generated in the ancient narrative structure suddenly broke the limitations of the ancient linear structure, greatly broaden the narrative space, and provided the possibility of free time and space circulation.

Control of traditional program performance

Most of the classic repertoires circulating in Kunqu opera are "talented women" drama. As the most protagonist who played, the main character is mainly born and harmonious. Because they are mostly the love stories of young talents and beautiful women, they have formed a set of performances with soft, delicate, and restrained as the main style over time. However, when such a performance program meets a modern revolutionary figure such as Qu Qiubai, it is facing great challenges.

In the play, starring Shi Xiaming is an excellent niche actor. First of all, his outstanding image laid a very good foundation for him to successfully shape Qu Qiubai's character image. In the performance, he carried out a drastic reform of the opera program, or to the maximum control of the traditional program that he was familiar with, so that his every hand and one shot were closer to the role, and closer to modern people were closer to modern people. Aesthetic requirements for characters.

Of course, this control is inseparable from the director's requirements. Zhang Manjun, the director of the play, was brave. On the one hand, Zhang Manjun was the winner of the Plum Blossom Award, and she was very familiar with the opera. On the other hand, Zhang Manjun has been working hard to bring modern aesthetics to the stage of the opera since he has been engaged in director creation. Her cognition and pursuit of modern drama aesthetics has made her the most important factor for the success of the show.

Design of shaping character singing

Kunqus belongs to the style of the song, and its singing and thoughts have its own unique set of regulations. In this drama, the most comfortable and appropriate one is the first fold of the "Night" of the "Night" of the most comfortable and appropriate. Because her mother is the old woman's image, her Suzhou dialect is very appropriate. Qu Qiubai talked with her mother, and the dialect rhyme white became natural. Coupled with the delicate music processing, the musicality and performance rhythm of the whole folding drama are natural. The rhythm of this fold is slow and tight, and the inheritance is complete and full. The fast -paced thought of the mother before taking poison even mobilized the nervousness of the audience, and then stopped, attributed to quiet. This rhythm tension is wonderful.

Compared with this, the other discounts can also feel the actors' efforts, such as the resonance and treble in the vocal aria, or too full rhyme white tail sounds to meet the performance needs of modern opera characters, but if it is According to different roles and scenes, the performance of the arias and the treatment of white and white, the performance will be more delicate, and the whole drama may have more amazing effects.

The fusion of the ancient new stage

Speaking of traditional opera, "one table and two chairs" is a vocabulary that is often used to describe the furnishings on the stage. It represents traditional opera on stage art and stage presentation virtual, minimalist, ethereal and free aesthetic characteristics.

The stage presentation of "Qu Qiubai" first insisted on this classical aesthetic demand, simple and condensed. The cells are table, one chair, one bed, one table, one chair at the Kuomintang officer's office, and the two spaces are listed on both sides. Simple furnishings not only provide space for actor performances, but also not lose the essence of ancient law.

At the same time, the beauty elements that meet the modern aesthetic demands are wrapped in the entire stage like the jade liquid, such as the seemingly simple three -back board, but played a multi -role. First of all, it can move, breaking through the traditional space arrangement. Among them, "day" is real time and space, and the actor completes the up and down from the traditional upper and off. "Night" is virtual time and space, and the actor will play on the stage space opened from the back panel. This design plays a key role in time and space conversion. Second, the color of the black and gray backboard is minimalist but meaningful. It is also these three colors to contact Qu Qiubai's clothing, which vaguely express the author's deep thinking about the value of life. Third, the white backplane becomes the curtain of projection. The shadow of the character is projected on the back panel, enlarged, and a delicate tension with the actors, expanding the emotional space of the stage, and better externalized the emotional fluctuations of the actors. In summary, the Kunqu "Qu Qiubai" created by the Kunquat Theater in Jiangsu Province is the first step of the ancient drama of Kunqu opera in modern drama. It is also the first step in the bold innovation of the creation of revolutionary historical themes. This is a collision and integration of classical beauty and modern beauty. A rare artistic masterpiece also provides inspiration for the latecomers and is worthy of attention.

(Special author: Zhao Jun, the Institute of Culture and Tourism, Hebei Province)

Responsible editor: Zhang Jiayi

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