Media meeting scene Photo by Southeast Network reporter Chen Nan
Southeast Network January 8 (our reporter Chen Nan) The reporter learned today that the press conference was sponsored by the Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai Longhua Martyrs Cemetery (Longhua Martyrs Memorial Hall), and Shanghai Yongjun Priority Fund The large-scale original drama "Outpost" jointly produced by the Association will be performed for three performances at the Fujian Grand Theater from January 12 to 13, 2024.
This Fujian special event is co-sponsored by the Fujian Provincial Department of Veterans Affairs and the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and is co-organized by the Fujian Provincial Veterans Care Foundation and the Fujian Provincial Song and Dance Theater. It aims to praise martyrs, promote red culture, and inherit and carry forward the revolution. Spirit. "Outpost" premiered at the Shanghai Opera Experimental Theater on February 7, 2021, the 90th anniversary of the sacrifice of the 24 Shanghai Longhua Martyrs (including the 5th Left Alliance Martyr). Since its premiere, it has been performed at Shanghai Opera Experimental Theater, Shangyin Opera House, Shanghai Grand Theater, Suzhou Bay Grand Theater, Ningbo Grand Theater, and Peking University Centennial Lecture Hall. It has received praise from all walks of life, especially from young audiences. welcome.
"Outpost" received funding from the 2022 National Arts Fund and the 2020 Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation Major Literary Creation Project, was rated as a 2023 Ministry of Education Original Cultural Quality Project for Colleges and Universities, and won the 36th Tian Han Drama Award·First Prize for Screenplay, " "Drama China" 2021 "Best Script Award" for the annual works, has been listed as a repertoire for the 2021 National Drama Season in Beijing's "Drama China", a specially invited repertoire for the 2021 Shanghai Stage Art Outstanding Drama Show, and a 2021 Shanghai Municipal Cultural and Educational Integration Support Projects, Shanghai's first batch of key literary and artistic creation projects with the theme of "Centenary of the Founding of the Party" and "Comprehensive Moderately Prosperous", Shanghai's newly created stage art works exhibition season to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, etc.
The play is written by Huang Changyong, dean of the Shanghai Theater Academy. This youth version of "Outpost" is led by Wang Luoyong, the artistic director of the Shanghai Opera Musical Center, the artistic director of "Outpost" and the actor of Lu Xun, and a group of teachers and students from the Shanghai Opera. Including Teng Xiaopeng, Shao Junze, Wang Hanwen, Yang Haoran, Peng Baoying, Lin Mo, Deng Wenchi, Zhang Mingyu, Yu Jiayi and others presented their talents. In this round of performance lineup, 90% of the student actors are born after 2000. They use the perspective of young people to retell the story of the revolutionary youth of the 1930s, and interpret the courage and enthusiasm of the progressive youth of the 1930s with the power of fresh youth.
reporters learned that the story of "Outpost" took place in an art college of a university in Shanghai in 2020. The instructor Wang Jin assigned five graduate students to rehearse a script with no beginning and no end. The script tells the glorious deeds of five young writers and Communist Party members Rou Shi, Hu Yepin, Li Weisen, Feng Keng and Yin Fu who were members of the Chinese Left-wing Writers Alliance in the 1930s, and their mentor and mentor Mr. Lu Xun, who were engaged in literature and revolution. Five graduate students who are similar in age to the Five Martyrs started from the script, explored their lives and spiritual worlds, and pushed the years back to the 1930s...
Hu Yepin, the protagonist in the play and one of the Five Martyrs, was born in 1903 In Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, this year marks the 121st anniversary of its birth. The performance of "Outpost" in Fuzhou is also a return and special commemoration. Hu Yepin, a young writer from Fuzhou, together with his writer friends, used his pen as a weapon and stood at the forefront of the revolution, striving unremittingly for national independence and people's happiness. Recalling Hu Yepin, his wife Ding Ling, who is also a famous writer, once said: "Thinking of his bravery, his strength, his enthusiasm, and his selflessness, he is a person full of power! He has spent his whole life searching for and colliding with each other. Throughout his life, he suffered so many hardships, but finally he found the truth, he became a Communist Party member, and he embarked on the bright road."
As Hu Yepin said in the play, "Our publications ignited the passion in the hearts of many young people. "Fire", times are changing, hope lasts forever, and the revolutionary spirit is also passed on forever. The heroic deeds of the five left-wing martyrs who dedicated themselves to truth and faith will always be remembered. "Outpost" returned to the hometown of the martyrs this time to remember the martyrs and pay tribute to the heroes.
