Since the premiere of "Treasure Island and One Village" in 2008, 12 years have passed. Every year, Mr. Lai, the actors and the audience gather together to tell, record, and watch the story of an era. After so long, these stories are as touching as they happened before my eyes. On Wednesday, the 2020 performance of "Treasure Island A Village" is about to open tickets. Today we will review what the "villagers" talked about at the "village meeting" that year.
Q: "Treasure Island A Village" is so big, why do you want to bring him in? What difficulties have been overcome?
Teacher Lai : In fact, going to the theater is one of our dreams, to be able to have a theater of our own, so that the audience has the best experience in watching a drama. I used to think that such a big drama might not be able to enter, because Treasure Island needs a relatively large space, and during the performance, we have to change the costumes frantically. We spent a lot of time planning how to use every inch of the place. In the end, I was really touched that "Treasure Island A Village" could be performed in Shanghai Theater.
Teacher Lai : Our destiny is always in the theater, and our destiny will always be performed in 700 locations. Experience the experience of Chinese history , see the actors very close, let every audience have one A good sight experience, I myself feel that I will still be shocked when I watch it offstage. I can see the actors so close. I now feel more and more that we have performed more than 200 shows. If we make a relatively distant metaphor, we can say that there was a teahouse in the era of , and a village on a treasure island in this era.
Teacher Lai : Our destiny is always in the theater, and our destiny is always performed in 700 locations, experiencing the experience of Chinese history , seeing the actors very close, so that every audience has a good I feel that I will still be shocked by the sight experience of watching the audience. I can see the actors so close. I now feel more and more that we have performed more than 200 shows. If we make a relatively distant metaphor, we can say that there was a teahouse in the era of , and a village on a treasure island in this era.
Q: "Treasure Island, One Village" premiered in 2008. Everyone knows that Wei Zhong has always had a deep affection for the military village. So when did the idea of bringing the story of the military village on the stage started?
Wei Zhongge : I am the second generation of the military village. I think I have the responsibility to tell the story of the military village. I remember that before the village was demolished, we all had a New Year’s Eve dinner together. I was very impressed. What I needed to do, so I kept making documentaries and used various forms to show the village. I knew the stage play was The most direct show, but I have no experience in stage play, so I went to cooperate with Director Lai, haha, we are all indifferent Scorpio, and it took two years to confirm it. I remember one day, Teacher Lai said to me: "Weizhong, I know how to do it." So we started to do it.
Wei Zhongge : Many feelings can only reach people's hearts directly if they are expressed in a stage play. My mother used to go back to Peiping's hometown and when she entered the house, my grandma asked my mother, didn’t you mean to play in Taiwan? Play for forty years. This kind of emotion is not clearly written, and it can only be expressed in a stage play. And many of the actors in "Treasure Island, One Village" are children of military villages.
Q: When Wei Zhong found Teacher Lai, what did you think? At that time, I felt that there are any difficulties that need to be overcome to bring such a huge topic of the times to the stage?
Teacher Lai : We take creation very seriously. There are countless good stories in the military community, but one hundred good stories is not equal to a good drama, and there is no good structure.There is only a running account, so many stories need to be connected, so how to structure the script structure of and how to structure the relationship between stories is the biggest difficulty . At that time, we had a time limit. I said that I would give me three days to retreat. I thought of it on the first day of the retreat. I made the story of 25 families into the story of three families. The 48 scenes are really trivial, but in fact, the connection at the bottom is very close, and the theme is tight.
Zeng Xinyu : I don’t have any feelings and concepts about the villages’ villages, but Brother Weizhong tells stories with us, and starts crying as he tells them, and feels that the story is so heavy. The more I got, the deeper my feelings for the dependent villages.
Fan Ruijun : Although I am not from a military village, there must be a local villager by my side since childhood. When I was young, my mother would remind me not to run to the military village. The people there are tough and afraid of being bullied. But when I was educated, everyone actually blended together to speak Mandarin and learn knowledge together. The interactions between people and the emotions that make us become family members . Just like my role in "Treasure Island A Village", the language was not clear at the beginning, but we continued to interact, we became family members, and even in the end I passed on.
Q: I know that the three protagonists are descendants of the dependent village. Is the story of "Treasure Island One Village" similar to what you have experienced?
Qu Zhongheng : When I first built the village, , when I saw the village, I stood by and cried. It was so similar to the dependent village where I lived . I was dizzy when I looked at the house. The bedroom is really similar to my home. Many military village museums in Taiwan have become popular. "Treasure Island One Village" is a living military village museum. It is a military village that has not been demolished. We will always live in the military village.
Q: What kind of mental state was it during the first performance?
Qu Zhongheng : At the beginning of 2008, Teacher Lai asked me to act in this drama, but in fact, few people mentioned the military villages at that time, and only occasionally saw the military villages in TV magazines, and there were almost no stage plays based on the military villages. Although we had rehearsed many times for the premiere in Taipei, it was very nervous. It was only shocked when the curtain call was made. The audience and the actors were moved. When the curtain call was made, the actors and actresses cried and all their faces were lost. I am moved and proud. I feel that I have not only acted in a drama, but also done an amazing thing.
Song Shaoqing: The military district is a bit like a military district compound, but the compound lived in the victorious war, but the military district lived in the defeated. The toughness of the military is the defensive heart. My parents went to watch the premiere. I didn’t think about how many people I wanted to play at the time. I just wanted to show it to my parents. When I got home, my mother said to me, "Well, it’s just that the house is too neat. It’s actually a mess.” just wanted to tell the elderly that they really worked hard.
Feng Yigang : "Treasure Island, One Village" starts my dad is seriously ill, he has no chance to see this drama. Before the performance of "Treasure Island A Village", I always felt that I looked like my mother, but after the performance, I realized that I was so much like my father, especially when I looked like an elderly person in the mirror.
Liu Liangzuo : During the first mainland tour, I didn't come. I had a chance to watch the show in the auditorium. There was an epiphany in the process of watching the show, as if during the performance, I understood my father’s miss for home and parents, "Treasure Island, One Village" has strong emotions for me, whether you have experienced separation or not And miss, but there are big wounds in the hearts of that generation. I also use this drama to commemorate my father.
Q: The military village is an environment where people’s congresses from all over the country are integrated. When you tour in various provinces and cities in China, what audiences will there beDifferent reactions? What interesting things have happened?
Zeng Xinyu : The most interesting thing is to find my wife, meet my wife in Fuzhou, and then become pregnant and become a father. From homesickness to home, this is my home.
Cheng Shouming : I am a Malaysian actor, not from a military village or Taiwanese. Before I participated in a drama, I was completely blank about the history of the military village. This history is a fault for me. I am the only one who has not really seen the military village. I didn't expect that I was an assistant to the director's team, but in the end I became a person standing on the stage. At the time, Teacher Lai thought there was a man in the play who could not understand him at all. One day, the actor didn't come, and the teacher asked me to replace it. I didn't expect that after I finished the performance, everyone was stunned. Because they really didn't understand at all, the role was mine.
Wei Yicheng : Fun things are really endless for a few days. For example, when we rehearse, we have a lot of verbal errors. For example, there is a scene I want to say: please make a coffin. I just said: I want to help you make a coffin. When
was touring Beijing for the first time, it was winter. Su Deyang specially bought the most expensive ticket to support him, but because Beijing was too cold in winter, Xinghe’s back was completely hard and he couldn’t turn his head. After the entourage arrived, he was pulled by us. He came to the rescue field, although it was temporarily pulled over to perform, but it was like we were riding a bicycle. Although we hadn't rode for a long time, we could get started as soon as we got on it. He played very well in that scene.
Lai Shengchuan : And the followers don't need to be paid, and they don't accept it at all.
Q: Let’s talk about everyone’s feelings about participating in "Treasure Island, One Village".
Liang Haolan : Grandma Deer has changed a lot. I only joined Baodao last year. I am very honored. I am the third generation of the dependent village. I grew up in the city when I was a child. The life in the village, how my grandparents were drifting away at the time, but the first time I watched this show, I cried so much that I couldn’t myself. The plot inside reminded me of what my father and grandparents were doing in such difficult days. of. At that time, I wondered how good it would be if I could play it in my lifetime. Unexpectedly, my dream has come true now.
Weng Quanwei : I closed my eyes before I played, and the pictures that emerged were all grandpa, grandma, grandpa, and grandma. My grandfather is from Zhejiang. He used to say that one day he would take you back to Zhejiang to take a look. My grandfather failed to take me back to Zhejiang in the end, but because of the opportunity to perform, I also returned to Zhejiang.
Zeng Xinyu: My first letter from the audience, she told me that her father is Xiao Huang, and her father is a plumber, but just like Xiao Huang, she has been helping the people in the dependent village, once went home. There are many water heaters in the house. Her father said that in winter, he was afraid that the elderly in the military village would be too cold. The audience was crying too hard to watch the play.
Fan Ruijun: Although I am not from the dependent village, but when I set foot on the mainland for the first time to play "Treasure Island One Village", I cried. I think we have the responsibility to continue this story so that everyone can understand them. What happened to your family’s elders during that period.
Wei Yicheng: There are many second-generation immigrants from the military villages in the United States. After the curtain call for the American tour, an old lady claps my hand and said: Thank you. I know she is thanking us for helping tell this story. actually has many stories that we don't know, but we should really ask our elders, or many stories will disappear. is like when I went to Beijing, Beijing was demolishing alleys. When I arrived, I only saw a large area of ruins. I found a door sign that said Shui Da Yuan Hutong. Fortunately, I came, otherwise I wouldn’t even know the door number.see. Many times we want to find history, but history is already gone, so please cherish it.
Wei Zhongge : Is the happiest thing in life being lost and regained, and if it can be lost and regained, what a husband can do.
Teacher Lai : I rarely have the opportunity to write history for my own time. Today, everyone is very emotional, like Thanksgiving. Sometimes people’s fate is something that can be estimated. Every time "Treasure Island, One Village" applauds the curtain call, I know that they are not only applauding for the wonderful performance, but also for the era and those characters. These years of tours have also made many people want to know the stories of the elders after watching these plays. "Treasure Island and One Village" is actually teaching us that we should understand the previous history, otherwise the buildings are gone. The story is gone, just like the alley is torn down, the story is gone, and the history is gone. What's left, except for the gorgeous high-rise buildings, can you remember where we came from? The short history of military village is over. I am fortunate to be able to create this story. I am fortunate to have so many exquisite actors participating in the performance and the exquisite executive team. I hope to continue the exquisite performance.
