Winning the Wenhua Awards Five!Interview with Yang Xiaoqing: How did you wear a good show?

Zhejiang News Client reporter Lu Yao

The second day when the "Maple Leaf Like Flower" won the "Mandarin Award", the reporter found the famous drama director Yang Xiaoqing in the theater of the Xiaobaihua Vietnam Theater in Zhejiang.

The 79 -year -old Yang Xiaoqing is still active in the front line of drama creation, leading the actors to create the latest work "Green Water Green Mountain".

She was cordially referred to as "Mother Yang" by the drama circle, and has always persistently devoted himself to the hot soil in Zhejiang drama. For more than 60 years, hundreds of works she have directed, the drama involves Yue opera, Peking opera, Kun opera, 瓯 opera, Huangmei opera, Qinqiang, Hebei Xunzi, Shao opera, Wu opera, tide opera, Gui opera, Soviet opera and many other dramas.

Her director's work has won the "Wenhua Award" five times. Among them, the Vietnamese drama "West Chamber" in 1994, the Soviet drama "National Ding Soul" in 2019, the 2022 Vietnam drama "Maple Leaf Like Flower" won the "Mandarin Award", and the 2004 Shaoxing "True and False Goku", 2010 The Peking Opera "Life Show" won the "Mandarin Award Special Award". In addition, the "Five One Project" award, the national outstanding reservation the award ... all kinds of awards are endless.

From "West Chamber" to "Maple Leaf Ruhua", Yang Xiaoqing hurriedly rehearsed time and talked to us about her and "poetic drama".

"West Chamber", the milestone of "Poetic Yue Drama"

In 1994, the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Vietnam Troupe won the first "Mandarin Award" for Zhejiang with the Yue Drama "West Chamber". Drama Liu Hou Sheng has given this work highly evaluating: "West Chamber" is a milestone for the development of Yue opera art.

"The success of the" West Chamber "is the time, geographical interests, and people." Yang Xiaoqing said that at that time, the atmosphere of the era of reform and opening up was inspiring art workers to continuously emancipate their minds and seek new and change. In 1984, the "Five Women's Worship" created by the Xiao Baihua Vietnam Troupe of Zhejiang Province, the drama writer Gu Xidong pushed a group of youthful and beautiful Yue opera actors to the world. In the early 1990s, young actors represented by Mao Weitao, Chen Huiling, Dong Kezhen, etc. in the "Little Baihua" gradually became famous, and urgently needed to create a number of new works. Yang Xiaoqing found the characteristics between the major Yue opera troupes across the country at that time, and opened new attempts such as "Lu You and Tang Yan" and "West Chamber" for "Little Baihua".

"Yue Opera has a poetic character. The same story can have different ways of telling." Yang Xiaoqing broke the traditional and realistic narrative method, abandoned the inherent model of one scene, and made breakthroughs in the stage of the Yue opera. Use the rotation stage.

She discussed with Wumei Design and made a model of turning the table, with the model to rehearse the field every day. Insert some small flags as characters, showing the actors for the actor.

Everyone looks at the model and understands. A turn of the platform allows the physical space of the East Chamber to the West Chamber, the physical space on the scene and the delicate psychological space of the characters, realize the flow of poetry, and drive the emotional changes of the clouds.

Music is also an important creative method. Yang Xiaoqing believes that the music of Yue Opera is particularly lyrical, beautiful, and moving, because to present the charm of poetry, the emotional changes of the characters are all presented in the details of the music.

Since its premiere in March 1991, the Vietnamese drama "West Chamber" has always been a housekeeping drama of "Little Baihua", and it is one of the peak works of its "poetic Vietnamese drama" style. It has now been passed on to the hands of the second and third -generation actors.

"Must say people"

Let's talk about "Maple Leaf Like Flowers".

If the director's thinking advocated by Yang Xiaoqing advocated by Yang Xiaoqing in the 1990s, he established a poetic aesthetic character for the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Vietnamese Troupe at the time, then in "Maple Leaf Like Flowers", she proposed to let Yue drama and opera and musical dialogue dialogue. The creative concept of blending reflects her determination and responsibility of her innovation of the art of Vietnam.

"There is a sentence in our trip, the red theme should be softened." Yang Xiaoqing said,

In layman's speaking, it is necessary to speak.

If the subject matter of "Maple Leaf is like a flower", if the string is tightened to show the strong bravery of the revolutionaries, it is easy to make a preaching "false empty". Therefore, she insists that he should not shout the slogan, don't talk about the truth, and you must be popular. She said: "We must also presented in a breakthrough way, and the romance and aesthetics in the Yue opera genes became a game of philosophical levels such as faith, life and death. Epic. Even if you talk about faith, you must closely follow the ideals and life, and you cannot get rid of reality. "" Maple Leaf Ruhua "designed a huge diagonal diagonal frame and a rotating stage on the stage. It can constitute a background of different format ratios, define different time and space, and completely closely closed into an insurmountable wall.

After handing the confidential documents to Hua Feng, the three red agents such as Zhong Shi actually had a great risk of exposure. On the stage, the three generals kneeling in the direction of the mainland and told their parents that they were patriotic filial sons. Turning on the stage, the plot returned to the general house in reality. Every time he plays here, it is very moved whether it is an actor or the audience, because this is the family feelings of the revolutionaries. There is a home in the heart, but the interests of the motherland are higher than everything.

In the end, the picture returned to the execution ground of Marchiho, and the sound of gunfire sounded, and the four martyrs became a set of sculptures. With the falling film maple leaves, the white song team appeared. walk out.

"The more the maple leaves are going to fall, the bright red." Yang Xiaoqing said that this scene abandoned time and space. The maple leaves and the monument symbolize the spirit and belief of the martyrs. The spirit of the revolution will be inherited from generation to generation.

In addition, Hua Feng set off in Taiwan at the pier, waved farewell to the children, and fled to the big waves behind the arrest of Zhoushan ... The scenes were all expression of poetry.

"Good plays depends on grinding"

Today, Yang Xiaoqing is still very concerned about the latest art works. Talking about the works such as "Only Green and Green" and "Never Passing", which have been hot in the past two years, she has seen it. In "Maple Leaf Like Flowers", Yang Xiaoqing also tried to absorb new arts such as opera and musicals to activate the potential vitality of Yue opera.

"Good plays depends on grinding." Yang Xiaoqing took "Maple Leaf Rawn Flowers" as an example. Since 2018, the play has been modified 5 times in 4 years, and there are countless adjustments. During this period, the Zhejiang Provincial Literary and Cultural Travel Department also organized a team of experts to watch each performance of the show. Each time I watched it, I mentioned it. Until this year, I continued to modify it before participating in the "Wenhua Award".

Talking about the experience of the actor's performance art, Yang Xiaoqing said: "The most important thing for Yue opera is 'love'. With emotions and combining various externalization methods, we can better convey the parts I want to express. It was not that the slogan was shouted, not the seminar, but it was for us to do it. It is not enough to work hard to do it. It is not enough to work hard to change the part of Yue drama. "

Over the years, Yang Xiaoqing has been teaching for domestic professional opera colleges such as Chinese Opera College and Shanghai Opera School. He also brought out a group of young director apprentices.

The winning prize is not the end. She sends a message from Zhejiang Drama: "I hope everyone can open my mind and keep soaring in the art sky."

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