A play of the same name adapted from the Mao Dun Literature Award-winning novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" premiered tonight at the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. On the sky screen, there is a projection of the green landscape "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng; in front of the stage, there are a number of armchairs; at the critical moment, the actors on the turntable said: "If you open the window and look outside, these people are the country."
Since the green landscape of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", beautiful hopes that appear and disappear in history like grass and snakes have recently been interpreted in traditional culture and intangible cultural heritage projects with the Oriental Performing Arts Group's dance painting "Only Green" The beautiful presentation of "come to life", and even Sun Ganlu's original spy novel was named "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", making these five words more "common". The novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" actually lays out a secret plan codenamed "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" - in just over a month, ordinary people who came together for the same beliefs worked together to transfer the Party Central Committee. From Shanghai to Ruijin...
What do the five words "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains" mean? The original green landscape means the prayers and blessings for the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, the prosperity of the motherland, peace and prosperity, and peace and contentment. The dance painting "Only Green", based on the green landscape "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains", allows the audience to understand through seven chapters: "unrolling the scroll, asking about seal script, singing silk, looking for stones, practicing brushwork, tempering ink, and entering the painting". How can a painting with mineral pigments that has not faded for thousands of years remain green? Thinking deeply, what can make peace and prosperity "never fade"?
Maybe, the answer lies in the novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" - although, on the surface, this novel is similar to the "spy war" type, and is not the same as "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" or "Only Green" in terms of content. They have something in common, but they have "something in common" - that is, the beautiful hope for peace and prosperity that will "never fade" and the ideals and beliefs that support it.
and above, for "Lianliankan" where you can have a proper understanding before watching the drama "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". The novel and drama "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is of course a history of revolution, but it is also a "chronicle of scenery" just like the green landscape "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and the dance painting "Only Green" - it's just that the times are different, and the scenery is different. different. The drama "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which is faithful to the original novel, puts the literary work directly on the stage and becomes a "journal of scenery" and a "pop-up book".
Before the play started, the field lights were very bright, illuminating a row of armchairs in front of the stage. One by one, actors in contemporary costumes took their seats on the stage, opened the book "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and began to read aloud. Readers and actors often alternate identities and become the main structure of the play. When an actor takes off or puts on his coat, he becomes a character in the play and enters the plot. Narrate a passage of text in a book and then demonstrate the power of the text by recreating the situation; or, while the characters in the play are rehearsing the plot, the readers express their voices on their behalf. There are many characters in the book and the clues are intertwined - this part of the drama is directly handed over to be read aloud. Therefore, the scene uses a turntable behind the chair to show the change of location, which can be at the end of an alley or the bow of a ship...
The whole play begins with a series of secret gatherings being destroyed by the enemy, and comrades sacrifice their lives. The suspense rises one after another, highlighting the The work on the hidden front was thrilling at that time, especially the first comrade who died, who did not even leave his name... The plot slowly revealed that the reason why these ordinary people had a revolutionary and fearless spirit was to cover the transfer of the Party Central Committee from Shanghai to Ruijin. This is a portrait exhibition-style play like "Teahouse". There are no male or female protagonists who have too many roles, but only fearless group portraits. There may be some film and television fans who want to watch Ma Yili live. She plays Ling Wen, the lover of Yi Junnian (played by Han Xiuyi). She is calm and wise, with few actions and not many scenes. She is completely different from the female boss of "Night Tokyo" in the TV series "Flowers". The narrative method of reading the novel aloud runs through the whole play to the end. It can almost be said that the drama is the "pop-up book" of the novel.
's unique directorial approach highly respects novels, and its theatricality is more reflected in the multimedia atmosphere.The details of the actors' costumes and other details are reproduced according to the "Feng Wu Zhi" method - just like the original novel, the characters in the novel are mostly fictitious, but the items that appear are real and have their origins. In terms of the costume design of the drama, there are a total of fifty-seven sets of looks in the drama. Taking the little Phoenix in the drama as an example, from the Cantonese opera actress on the stage to the reader in modern life, the entire makeup change process only takes ten years. Completed within minutes. This is also quite a challenge for the actors - sometimes they are readers and sometimes actors in the play. Their emotions cannot be coherent and they need rational guidance. Therefore, for the audience, the best way to watch the show is to read the novel, become familiar with it, and then watch it so that you can make up your mind from time to time.
The "history of revolution" connected by "Feng Wu Zhi" also includes the space constructed by local dialects and dialects in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places. The sense of time travel brought by dialogues in Shanghainese, Cantonese and other languages expands the stage space. The pursuit of language and literature forces the audience to return to the text and think about the power of words. Therefore, in the line "You open the window and look outside, these people are the country" - does "these people" include us, the audience? The five words “A Picture of Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains” also include us.
The country is thousands of miles long, and the revolutionary faith is passed down from generation to generation. (Zhu Guang)
