Talking to the young director Wen Qi: Being a director is a natural thing that happened naturally

On the evening of August 6, 2022, the performance of the "Young Director Creation Support Plan" of the National Theater of China State theater opened. Director Wen Qi was full of visual impact, opera style and martial arts work, "Fake Walkman" and the audience. Meet.

Zhi Ge was martial arts, and he reported helplessly. In the night, Wu Song stepped onto the tower. The candle shadow in the depths of the painting hall shakes, and the knife in Wu Song's hand is as sharp as the eyes, but the heart is faint and intoxicated. What you see in front of you will become a memory: sometimes in Chai Jinzhuang to get malaria. To the dead soul, he cried to him, and sometimes he sang "The Song of the Water" sung by Magnolia. The moonlight was like daylight, shining in the battle that seemed to never stop in Wu Song's heart. Repeat, flickering backfill, deformation and enlarged. In the play, the audience can intuitively feel the story that happens in the long moonlit of the tower, and will also face the process of Wu Song across the bottom line. Under the reorganization of Director Wen Qi, the stage will be drowned and Wu Song will return to life.

Building of Wusong image

In the hearts of the public for a long time, Wu Song has appeared as a typical image of a tiger hero. Is there another side of such heroes? In the early days of the idea, the image of Hero's inherent heroic heroes became Wen Qi's creative opportunity. However, as the interpretation of the original work is more complete and the creative process is more deeper, Wen Qi no longer pursues deliberate solution to the original image. Instead, it fits the original work and understands Wusong. The story of the most adaptation of the story.

The works of Wusong will involve many dramas. In Wen Qi, it is impossible to show Wusong's image. Based on excellent works such as the opera "Wusong Playing Tigers" and "Wutong Store" as the original point, they gradually woven the context of the martial arts action drama of "False Walker". A symbolization of violence. Putting this symbolization itself on the stage caused the audience to resonate and stimulate the audience's adrenaline, so that the audience and Wu Song are the most authentic state. "Not only in the process of fighting, but also after the end of each battle, between a battle and a battle, the mental state and physical state of the character in the process of a brief stop, I think It is also able to convey to the audience through the rhythm and distribution we arrange on the stage. "

Modern translation is a thinking now

"Fake Walker" interprets and digs the image of Wusong on the basis of fit the original work. For the modern translation of classical literature, Wen Qi believes that this should not be a deliberate thing. Human thought and imprint. "In fact, the original book itself is a literature that comes from the people. Many of them are the life experiences of the small figures of the market in the big age. ","

The adaptation is not a camera -like recovery, but the realism and control of the current life. Whether it is the adaptation of the original opera or platform for the original, or literary postship, it is a creator with the unique processing and re -creation of the creators combined with the unique processing and re -creation of reality. Essence Youth director Wen Qi has the younger generation of thinking in this process, injecting new ideas and vitality into "Fake Walker". "When our thinking is involved, it is already a current translation. So I think modern translation is not a thing that can be pursued, but that I say that I am myself, my subject, and my creation. The identity of the person, go to the original book, and tell you what I want to say to everyone. This is what I think. "

Another Hamlet

Through various wrong flashbacks, reorganizations of the original text, and modern artistic concepts, "Fake Walker" presents the diversity of Wusong for the audience. In sorting out the overall context, Wen Qi saw the similarity of Wusong and Hamlet, and said that in a sense, Wu Song was another Hamlet.

"In fact, I thought a lot when analyzing the image of Wusong, just like Hamlet also had a lofty spirit, but in fact, because of his own way of doing his own, his identity, responsibility and himself His ability is not matched, causing him to not be able to control it in the end. In the end, he can only be wrapped in this fate. Wusong is also such a person. Wu Song is very noble and strong. Destiny is wrapped in and keeps walking forward. "

Similar to Hamlet's tragedy, he took the initiative to abandon the identity of the hero of the tiger, left it on the white pink wall of the Tower, and finally turned into a walker. In this regard, Wen Qi said: "Wu Song's active change in his image is actually a destruction of his own life. I think this is a very tragic thing." Although the path of the two characters chose is completely different, , But these two people are like breaking up on the foothills and finally on the top of the mountain, becoming a mirror -like self.

Naturally

Director Wen Qi after 95 graduated from Beijing University of Science and Technology, and the major of college studies did not directly associate with drama. Nevertheless, Wen Qi accumulated very rich experience in the industry. matter.

During his college, Wen Qi actively participated in the creation of student works. The drama gradually developed into an unparalleled interest, and he always thought about how to interpret a work. When he saw a good text, he imagined what it was on the stage. When he went to the theater to watch the work, he would really want to analyze the final presentation of the work with a director's idea. "At that time, I stared at the scheduling of those actors every day, and the lights on the stage gradually became a habit of life, not to say that there was a special opportunity to let me do this, but naturally happened naturally happened. In the end, Wen Qi said coolly if he had the opportunity to choose what he liked now, why not do it. The aesthetics and freedom of the opera, like a sky -light flow on the statue of such a hero. Wu Song examined his statue when the malaria was issued, and like a passerby and pedestrian who would not care about it, he was long and begging, and a person practiced in the world. Wen Qi also adheres to the love of drama and is afraid of moving on the road of art.

Manuscript Source: China National Theater

- END -