Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) From January 5th to 7th, a new stand-up comedy "She's No Problem!" will be produced by Shan Liren and created and performed by Pan Yue. ", performed at the Drum Tower West Theater in Beijing. The play observes and examines ordinary girls in urban life from a comedy perspective, reinterprets the difficulties encountered in life in an unconstrained way, and presents comedic moments that resonate deeply with people.
《She’s fine! 》Reinterprets the difficulties encountered in life in an unconstrained way. Picture provided by the performer
"She's okay!" " shows the various embarrassments and dilemmas that urban girl "Pan Xiaoyue" encounters in life, such as going to the movies and discovering that she has been spoiled by a three-minute short video as soon as she sat down; the ingratiating personality does not end the topic but becomes a social terrorist; Ordering a sumptuous takeaway but eating all you can snacks while waiting; looking at the messy room and buying more useless storage items and pretending to start working...Situations like these make people laugh or laugh, but they also profoundly poke into the reality of urban life. Those embarrassing and helpless moments. Behind the laughter lies the compromise and reconciliation of ordinary people towards life. After the performance, the audience said that "Pan Xiaoyue" is the best substitute for urban women. "What she acted was completely my own life. But she gave me a completely different way of dealing with it, as if it was completely okay for her to do so." Some viewers also said, "It's so funny! Pan Yue uses a very cute comedy The way of performance made me understand the embarrassing moments in her life. These are also our embarrassing moments. This is the charm of comedy, using laughter to relieve negative emotions."
Behind the laughter lies the compromise and reconciliation of ordinary people in life. Photo courtesy of performer
New one-woman comedy "She's Okay!" "" was created and performed by Pan Yue. She has been committed to composing various forms of new comedies and gradually formed her own performance style. Her stage rhythm is precise and powerful, and she shows a strong sense of belief on stage. Her unconstrained imagination and unique insight make her performance extremely tense and contain amazing stage energy. New stand-up comedies are also the focus of Pan Yue’s recent exploration. Comedies created using different methods such as sketch comedies, comics, Japanese short plays, songs, etc. are collectively called "new comedies", while stand-up new comedies are new comedies created and performed by one actor. Stand-up comedy is not the same as a one-man show, because there is not just one character in the show but only one actor, and the actor may play many roles during the performance. In this format, it is possible to create a fictional antagonist actor that does not need to exist but is instantly understandable. The expression possibilities of the theater can also be more abundant, giving the audience more ideas for the blank parts of the actors' performances. The audience can also better take on the roles in the play and imagine that they are also a part of the play.
From the perspective of visual vocabulary, stage design designer Tong Sijun used loneliness in life as the background. He said: "In today's fast-paced life, we are surrounded by various convenient services based on the Internet. Takeaways and express delivery are everywhere. It can be seen. We seem to have become accustomed to this kind of life, and have piled them up into our own kingdom and shelter. The set of the play changes these symbolic boxes into various scenes, giving more possibilities for the expression of new single-person comedy Sex."
The scenery in the play transforms the symbolic box into various scenes. Photo courtesy of the performer
In the early stages of creation, Pan Yue was always in a state of "anxiety". She used self-discipline to try to find a more comfortable state, but found that the development direction of events was always far from her expectations, and even ran counter to her expectations. . At this time, the idea of "keeping the collapse" gradually formed in her mind, and the gradually relaxed state made "She's OK!" " Gradually grew out of her. She understands that in modern urban life, synchronization between individuals and groups is a very painful and complicated matter, and that personal "preservation collapse" is a kind of introspection and reconciliation.
《She’s okay! "The story is also full of various contradictions and confusions of personal life in the city. These vivid and tangible dilemmas, but often covered up by the grand narrative, constitute "She's OK! "The inner creative logic of "Pan Yue" pushed these aspects to the extreme, resulting in the "Pan Xiaoyue" in the story. She tried to mess up all of this, and then recovered again. In this cyclical process, she continued to collapse, using this kind of Strong emotional imprint, always remind yourself not to be numb.
editor, Wu Longzhen
proofreader, Zhao Lin
