A group of young people, creating a summer of exclusive drama

In the early September of September, the summer heat faded. At the beginning of September, the "Young Director Creation Support Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "National Young Director Program"), sponsored by the National Theater and the Beijing Culture and Art Fund, was successfully ended.

Starting from the first round of performances, young directors have continuously used their works to bring infinite excitement and imagination to the audience.

In the last round of performances, young directors Guo Caixue and Ding Yiteng's drama "Return" and "◯" were once again amazing that young directors, the future can be expected.

Vol.1

Renew the ending

The ending of fairy tales always wrote: Since then, the prince and princess have lived together happily.

and then?

Guo Caixue has such confusion about "Peony Pavilion". Du Li Niang died and resumed, and she achieved a strangeness with Liu Mengmei. and then?

What is their lives like? What did they look like after entering the marriage? If the two people who love each other, if they are together, will they always be happy?

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Duan Zhao

"Return" is exactly to explore these issues.

"I do n’t know what to do, it’ s deep. ” This is a dream, the beginning of the two people, the beginning of the three livestones, involved more than four hundred years, the five flavors, the six fun reincarnation. Seven returning to Lingsha, dying and rehabilitation; eight hundred Hengsha, a drop in the sea, although he died nine and never regretted it.

Is "eternal" pain or happiness? This is the protagonist's continuous torture of himself. In all the relationships, people inevitably calculate the gains and losses, because life will eventually die. In the process, we constantly fight against the passage of time, trying 2. Loneliness ..... We constantly make the most correct choice for the moment, but the preconceived "loss" made us feel that people's life is losing money, stop loss, losses, stop loss, and finally returns to zero. If we no longer lose, we get eternal, and we have the ability to practice all promises, then will we be happy?

Guo Caixue made a special setting for Du Liu. In the story of "Return", they have eternal life. "Forever youthful face, and life is infinite. What would happen if we have such a life?"

In the endless time, it only accompanies the lover. It seems to be happy, but it is difficult to hide pain. The relationship between Du Li Niang and Liu Mengmei, like the white silk connected by their clothes, is closely linked, but it is inevitable that the implication of binding is inevitable.

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Duan Zhao

They had a gap with each other, but the two still felt lonely together. Where is the question? Guo Caixue used the plot of the 35 % discount of the original book as the root cause of the contradiction between the two.

"The roots and foundations of this play are" Return "(referring to the 35th discount of" Peony Pavilion "), and it seems that leaving the original script is not established." Guo Caixue set up a retrospective plot of "From now on to the past", "let let They asked in modern times and solved the problem in ancient times. "

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Duan Zhao

Just as the sentence repeatedly inquiring in the lines, is eternity pain or happiness? "Everyone's position and situation are different. Seeing wisdom." Guo Caixue gave the answer by Liu Mengmei's mouth, "Who knows?" As a result, the audience also thought about the eternal propositions, happiness and pain.

The dance scene was placed horizontally, and the large performance was also placed behind the gauze of the scene. "This period of life is unable to see or guess, so I deliberately put a lot of play behind the yarn. The audience will feel a bit hazy in the past, and it will be different from the visual effects of ordinary stage performances."

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Guo Ping

At the same time, Guo Caixue also considered that some audiences did not see the actor's performance directly, and the use of real -time photography solved this problem.

This is also the first attempt in her personal creation. "After joining the real -time photography, all the expressions of the actor can be cast in the entire performance space. The audience takes their own needs. ","

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Duan Zhao

Vol.2

New program

Among all the works that are modernized around the "Peony Pavilion", Ding Yiteng's "◯" is particularly special.

One is the title of the drama. Alas, how to read? round? lock up? zero? Or letters o?

"Actually it is a symbol." It is difficult to call it out at a time, but Ding Yitang feels good, "Just like our Chinese -like text, it has a lot of meaning in it, symbolizing a cycle, reincarnation, completeness, completeness , Or a trap, trap. "

This is also compatible with the theme he chose- "Peony Pavilion". The ground dance is also a circle, and the makeup on the actor's face is a circle.

△ Stills of the drama "照", photography Duan Zhao

The second is a character. It is not Du Li Niang, nor is it Liu Mengmei, Lao Du Du Bao, is the absolute actor of this play.

In the common works related to "Peony Pavilion", Du Bao's main perspective is very small, but Ding Yitan feels that this character is worth digging.

△ Stills of the drama "照", photography Wang Haoyu

"His last perspective and attitude change, in fact, the most triggering my imagination." Ding Yiteng consulted a lot of information and became interested in the complexity of Du Bao's thinking and the variability of the inner dimension. "In the final reunion, Among them, he did not fully recognize his daughter's death. This is the starting point for my creation. "

In the face of the daughter of death, Du Bao, the son -in -law of the No. 1 champion, and looked at the ecstatic wife, only felt that everything in front of her eyes, cooking oil, but dreaming like fantasy. Du Bao did not know whether it was a dream of three years, or did he have a dream at the moment? Du Li Niang died and resumed, Liu Mengmei high school champion, and the emperor married Du Liu. How do Du Bao feel in the face of these things? Ding Yiteng used the light and shadow effect to transform a big hand, stiring Du Bao's heart, and imaging the struggle in his heart.

△ Stills of the drama "照", photography Wang Haoyu

The colorful lights, clothing, exquisite opera chanting and moves, rich and full body movements, with strong visual impact and stage effects.

In addition to using a variety of stage forms, Ding Yitan has always sought collisions between different types of actors. The actors of "◯" include both film and television actors and dancers and Peking opera actors.

△ Stills of the drama "照", photography Duan Zhao

He thinks it is very interesting. For example, "Zhao Xiaosu who plays Du Bao often does not understand Peking opera chanting, but I think the meaning is not the most important. The aesthetics contained in the chanting is the beauty of the stage I particularly want." At the same time, It also allows the audience to appreciate the diversity of drama.

Vol.3

Classic nutrients from classic

Both directors have rich creative experience, and this time participating in the "National Young Director Program" also fully reflects their precipitation.

"I have been a small theater drama for more than ten years. In the current mentality, I still think that whether it is a small theater drama or the drama itself, it is full of attraction to me." Guo Caixue said that she still has a lot To achieve it on the stage, "Do it again and enrich it again."

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Duan Zhao

Real -time photography is her new attempt. "I watched a drama some time ago. It was a green cloth shooting, but there was a camera on the stage." Guo Caixue thought, can he make a documentary shooting without a camera?

“国话对我们青年导演是全力的扶持，没有任何的干涉，给了我们各种各样可以用的东西，包括投影仪。那么，我完全可以实现我的纪实愿望，所以在这个戏里头， I tried it a little. "

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Duan Zhao

There are some classic masterpieces that she really wants to adapt, "there are domestic ones, foreign ones, ancient, and modern." 'Give us a large door, so that we have the courage to do what we want to do. "

In the process of "Return", she did not deliberately pursue "ancient". Some of the elements of some opera and classical dance were "unconsciously incorporated". "".

△ Stills of the drama "Return", photography Duan Zhao

Guo Caixue hopes to "have the opportunity and have the ability to express the interpretation, understanding, and thinking of Chinese classic masterpieces through creative and going out" to tell the story of Chinese.

For the creation of traditional classics, it is well -known for Ding Yitan. His "Dou'e" and "New West Chamber" "all adapted the traditional Chinese opera text," Dou E Everbright "and" West Chamber "." He also Adapted "Changsheng Hall", "Just one" Peony Pavilion ", the four famous names are collected."

This time, the opportunity is just right.

Although "◯" is short in space, Ding Yitan gets the fun of "about classics, about opera, about contemporary drama, experiments, and exploration." The free and open mindset is not bound by a story or a form. "

△ Stills of the drama "照", photography Wang Haoyu

Ding Yiteng admits that his nutrients come from traditional Chinese culture and traditional Chinese opera. "中" can be seen everywhere.

In addition, this creation is also very fit with his "new program" drama. "On the stage of the performance of contemporary drama, some elements of some traditional Chinese culture and traditional Chinese opera are integrated, thereby enriching contemporary drama, which is a new concept."

△ Stills of the drama "照", photography Duan Zhao

Ding Yiteng's work combines Chinese and Western, blended with ancient and modern times, and is closely related to his creative experience abroad. The topic and humanity of the theme of the drama. "

"No matter it is from ancient times to the present, from east to west, people are constant. People pursue a good wish, struggle in the predicament, and fighting for life and life. I think, "Either Dou E, or Du Bao, or the matchmaker, in fact, they have the same theme. This is the point that we can all resonate after the combination of Chinese and Western."

△ Stills of the drama "照", photography Wang Haoyu

Like the title of "的", the "Young Director Creation Support Plan" (first season) ended perfectly.

For young directors, this is a tense and enjoyable creation. Half propositions, short -term, ancient and modern translation, cultural and military training, the creative ideas of the sky, challenges and a little exciting.

For the audience, it looks like a hearty summer trip. For a while, every week, there are new surprises to meet, and new stories are always happening. Two shining classical works, 12 outstanding young directors, and 12 unique dramas, which brings wonderful, moving, thinking and infinite expectations this summer.

However, this is not the end.

In the future, the National Theater will also take live and on -demand forms to let online audiences across the country see the performance and feel the power of drama. The National Pioneer Smart Theater will also be further upgraded, and young directors are welcome to return to the stage. The "Young Director Creation Support Plan" will also launch two seasons of "World Classic presentation" and "Chinese original stories".

△ Tian Qinxin, Dean of the National Theater of China

Awarded an honorary certificate to 12 young directors

The "Youth Creation Support Plan" will become a normal measure of the national dialect. In addition to the director plan, it will also launch screenwriter and actor support plans to lead young artists' awareness of China, history, culture, geography, and life. The use of drama art consciously tell the story of Chinese stories, bringing the contemporary value that spans time and space, surpass national borders, and has eternal charm.

More possibilities, worth looking forward to.

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