Huang Ying's new drama "My Half of Life" is not just about the half of Lao She's life

In the 1930s, Lao She published his first finale work in the golden age -the novel "My Life", the protagonist was a patrol of an old society. This year, director Huang Ying launched the 51st drama "My Half of the Life" directed by his career. From August 6th to 15th, the drama was a funding project of Beijing Culture and Art Fund in 2021, and it was also the official premiere of the 70th anniversary of the Beijing Renren and Art Construction Academy. This is not only Huang Ying, who is good at "Jingwei Drama", to pay tribute to Mr. Lao She, who is admired by him and the Beijing Renyi expression known as the "Guo Lao Cao" theater; It is aware of the life experience of the old house to become Wenhao, and explores and think of the meaning of life and life together.

Although it was summer in summer, when I walked into the Beijing Renyi Experimental Theater, it was found that the stage here was arranged as "ice and snow", and there was a small piece of "waters" in the middle. "Snow" wrapped the pillars, and even stretched to the foot of the audience; the "boat" floating in the water. This snow is the snow of the young years of the lunar calendar -Shu Changshun, the protagonist of "My Half -Life". This snow is also the snow in Peiping winter, the snow in London's cold winter. When Lao She was young, he lived from Peiping to London, and began his important writing career during this period. In the year of establishing, he returned to his hometown and entered the second half of his life. On the stage of "My Half -Life", the two cities, Peiping and London, appeared alternately as the background. The young Changshun's spiritual map on the journey of life also made people impress the old sheet. Instead of writing, wonderful flowers, and wise and humorous, he saw a poor child who grew up in suffering, and a young man who also had confusion, confusion, troubles, and pain.

This nickname is Shu Changshun, who is called "Xiao Nian". Although it is different from Shu Qingchun, who is familiar with the pseudonym "Lao She", it seems closer to every ordinary person. Growing up, you will also want to talk to the young man on the stage. This is why Huang Ying did not choose to adapt the work of Mr. Lao She's work. He did not want to pass on Lao She, but instead took a person who "grew up with a small cake and dried cake powder, and later used a pen pole as a 'weapon' "Curiosity and concern, on the basis of carefully studying Lao She's life and its novels, prose, drama, and even cross talk, re -understand Lao She's growth experience and spiritual world. The attitude of creation.

Just as Lao She's writing style is actually very changing and uneven, and the characters in the pen are full of goodwill and peacefulness; Huang Ying's "My Half -Life" also has a realistic and free -style mixed style; young actors play the variety of color colors There are no real wicked people. There are a large number of old Beijing dialects in the lines in the play. The program list also specifically listed a long series of "noun explanation": chaos, old mules, mushrooms soaked mushrooms ... "Jujube", "Fu Shouquan", "Open Meal! "Different works such as" My Half -Life "are full of Beijing flavor charm, but it also reflects the charm of Lao She's personality and his works beyond the region and time and space.

At the end of "My Half -Life", a fictional meeting with Chang Shun and his father -In reality, Lao She's father died when he was 3 years old, and his memory of his father was almost thin. The meeting in the play happened in the dream of Chang Shun's illness. At that time, Chang Shun, who was confused because he was trapped in the "table, garden, and ballroom", met with the late father in the unconscious disease near the "Ghost Gate Pass". My father said to him, "When I see you next time, I hope you don't have to have such a face." This is also Huang Ying, who is still confusing but still pursuing, exploring, and reflection. "Everyone has an end point, you can never predict how you end it. But what we can do is when the end comes, don't let yourself be ashamed '."