The "Nine Drama Theater Season in the City" has recently started in Beijing during the New Year. The Nine Intellectuals series of five plays "Four Machines", "Spring Passes", "Broken Symmetry", "Two Scales" and "Before the Court" " was staged one after another. This is also the first time that the stories in the "Nine Universe" have been presented to the audience in their most complete appearance. At present, "Four Machines", "Spring Passes", "Symmetry Broken" and "Double Scales" have been performed. The various mysteries in this series will also be performed in "Before the Court" at the Erqi Theater on January 19. It unfolds gradually and ends with the strongest note at the finale of "Nine Universe".
For many viewers, although they have watched these works before, this time they can watch the Nine series with the inner logic of the story and characters, which brings an even stronger shock and a deeper understanding of the connotation of the works: "Standing in front of the Republic of China universe here, looking back at old friends and thinking about the past, it's like a replay after a long game. The fight between black and white and the friendship between candles in Jiangning Prison seem to have a few more things that were not noticed back then. The complexity of the situation."
Written by Zhu Hongxuan and Ye Ziling, and directed by Zhu Hongxuan, the nine-person drama series is both independent of each other and footnotes to each other. "Double Scales" answers Lu Poan's questions about ten years later in "Four Cards", and Mr. Lang's past that he couldn't bear to talk about in the rainy night in Jiangning is the final work of the nine-person series "Before the Court" write. In "The Story of Two Scales", how did the wife and daughter who Lang Shihe couldn't bear to mention and the old friend whom Lu Po'an missed move from the beginning to the end of the story? Do the candidates who have high hopes in "Four Machines" live up to the expectations of "a young man with integrity"? A letter written with a sharp pen, what is the future of Deng Yiqiu who wants to defend women's education; Ma Shuixian's twilight years, Gu Hezhen's old age, Cheng Wuyou's verdict... The fate of many characters in the previous work ended here, and on the long ruler of time Remember every inch of sunshine and wind and frost in this century-old dream. In particular, the important protagonists in the two works "The Story of Two Scales" and "Before the Court" are both Lang Shihe. From wearing a blue shirt to being covered in dust and mud, the past twenty years of "Before the Court", which were not known to outsiders, condensed into cold rain, falling on the shoulders of the middle-aged Lang Shihe in "The Story of Two Scales". And that rolling lamp that is always swaying in the rain, whose unchanging heart is it, and whose distant redemption is it?
The upcoming "Before the Court", as the fifth work in the drama series Nine Intellectuals of the People's Republic of China, takes the lawyer couple Lang Shixi and You Shengnan as the protagonists. It not only writes about the love, protection, confrontation and separation of a couple, The collapse also witnessed how China's legal system was built step by step in a thrilling way in the early twentieth century. With more than 60 characters and dozens of cases, "Before the Court" is a rare legal drama with two protagonists on the drama stage. It engraves the milestones of legal reform one stroke at a time, and also reflects the changes in the world and the warmth and warmth of people's hearts.
During the "Nine-person Theater Performance Season in the City", in addition to performing five consecutive plays, the Nine-person Theater Company also prepared many surprises for the audience. When performing at Beijing Tiantongyuan Cultural and Art Center 365 Theater, National Theater Theater, and Erqi Theater, the same exquisite program catalogue, play commemorative medals and derivative peripherals are prepared as always, and a "nine-person mailbox" is set up in the front hall of the theater to welcome the audience to stay. The "Photography Exhibition" area includes the classic stills of the five-part series of Nine, the behind-the-scenes snapshots of Nine in 2023, and the curtain call photography submitted by the audience. Countless freeze-frames instantly review the journey of Nine in the drama throughout the year. with stage wonders. The nine people also opened the stage guide for "Spring Dies" and "Before the Court". The actors in the play personally led the audience onto the stage and into the "Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica" and "Lang You United Law Firm"; and held Various activities with rich content, such as the "New Year's Eve, Looking Back at Old Friends" sharing session by the main creators, and the "Them in Creation" theater creation talks, gave the audience more opportunities to understand the creations of the nine people in front of and behind the scenes.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Guo Jia
