Liu Liangcheng's "Benba" novel from literature to the stage reappears in the form of "text drama"

Cover news reporter Zhang Jie

Literature is closely linked to art forms such as movies and drama. Good novels often become inspiration and sources of material art. Recently, at the Beijing 77 Theater, following the text of Liu Liangcheng's new work "Benba", a dream of interweaving the voice of human voices, light and shadow and dance convergence: "Liu Liangcheng's latest novel" Benba "text theater -a dream "Benba" realized a transition from literary text to the stage.

In this "text drama" theater, artists jointly present the world of "Benba" with a variety of art forms such as recitation, music, dance, paper cutting, and installation. 》 The story of the text, language, thought and structure.

Feng Qiuzi, who was born in Inner Mongolia, brought her original modern dance of "Benba", overlapping the time and space in the novel, and everyone lived in the fantasy feeling that they were willing to stay, expressing it in physical language; Xinjiang Music poet Hong Qiji sang the songs specially created for "Benba" on the spot; Inner Mongolia musicians who were born in the music family and studied traditional Mongolian music since childhood, the overall design of the audience and performed on the spot. The text was organically fused, and Liu Liangcheng, the author of "Benba", wrote the title "One Dream Benba" for the performance. Writers Qiu Huadong, Proseist Zhou Xiaofeng, critic Liu Daxian, literary critic, university professor Yang Qingxiang, and special teacher Zhou Qun also gathered on the scene, and joined the performance of "One Dream Benba" as a special guest.

The "One Dream Benba" adapted from "Benba" is divided into four scenes. Professional actors, artists and guests of different identities lead the audience to "hide", "movingist", "dreaming", and five senses. Open, the game feels full, and interprets the unspeakable connotation of novels in a cross -border artistic way. The audience crossed the dreams depicted in the book and entered the epic of the fairy tales. Full of broad and boundless dream experience.

When talking about the creation of "Benba", Liu Liangcheng said that "Benba" is a childhood epic that "Benba" and his childhood dream. "When we face a nightmare, the easiest way is to wake up in the horror, everything is left in the dream, you get rid of it. But there is another way: you fly. Don't put the dreams in your dreams. Bringing the day to the day. The writing of "Benba" is actually related to this dream. I want to solve all the fear in the dreams in the dreams. Tired, what you don't want to do during the day, just do it in dreams. "This kind of reality and dream interchange and interchange is literature and philosophy. Through novels to roaming on the stage, the integration of different art forms, the story of "Benba" obtains new vitality and imagination. As Liu Liangcheng said, "Literature is the art of dreaming. In the world of" Benba ", dreams and wakes are all hometown."

Many viewers said that the way to "read" books is very novel and interesting. It has a real experience of literary opening and abundance. I hope that in the future, more literary works can be presented in such a expressive way.

"Benba" is the latest novel of the writer Liu Liangcheng. It was published by the Translation Lin Publishing House in January 2022. On the basis of the Mongolian epic "Jiang Gel", the author re -showed and told the basic elements of human life for thousands of years, such as people and space, people, and time, and opened a imaginative understanding and perception structure. Essence

Born in Liu Liangcheng in the 1960s, he planted a land and worked as a township agricultural machinery administrator. Write some text after labor. In the 1990s, Liu Liangcheng was alarming in the collection of prose collection "A Village", which aroused widespread attention in the literary world. There were many awards, and it was sold for more than 20 years. In January 2022, Liu Liangcheng revised this essay collection, and a new version was launched by the Translation Lin Publishing House. Because of the thinking and writing of rural life in this book, it is very poetic, deep, and novel, and Liu Liangcheng is also called "the last proseist in China in the 20th century" or "rural philosopher". In 2014, he won the 6th Lu Xun Literature Award.

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