The play tells 12 episodes of a woman's life starting from the age of 25 and unfolding from the story line of youth, middle age and old age. In each performance, the live audience decides which six stories will be presented on the stage. The "never repeated twice" performance format is full of unknown surprises.
"Age is a Feeling"
"Age is a Feeling"
"Age is a Feeling" was created by Canadian screenwriter Haley MacLeary. The original version premiered in 2022. Ruisa read the script of "Age is a Feeling" and watched the performance in London. She was attracted by the gentle and powerful stories and characters in the script. She is one of the Chinese translators of the play. "Every performance is a difficult process. How to express the sense of age in the passage of time, and how to let the feeling of age reach the hearts of the audience, so that the audience can continue to experience the story. Experience and thinking. "
"Age is a Feeling" post-performance talk on March 31, Ruisa was surprised by the audience's attentiveness in watching the play, "They even noticed that the protagonist put on his shoes at first and then took them off. "When "Age Is a Feeling" premiered in 2023, many viewers walked into the theater several times in order to unlock the protagonist's different way of opening up life. With the clever arrangement of the script, only half of the 12 different stages of the protagonist's life can appear in each performance, but this does not affect the feeling of the complete plot. During the card selection process, the selected stories will be emphatically performed, while the unselected stories will be briefly mentioned, corresponding to a sentence in the original work - "No one will know the story of your life, including yourself." According to the crew According to incomplete statistics, this form of performance will produce up to nearly 200 performance versions.
Ruisha and her crew colleague
Ruisha said that the protagonist of "Age is a Feeling" is a woman who is not so successful in the eyes of traditional parents. She has been following her inner voice her whole life and letting her feelings write the story of her life. story. Marriage, childbirth, making friends, saying goodbye, everything unfolds in a natural way. She candidly faces her inner anxieties, entanglements and obsessions, and the audience can find resonance points with many souls after watching her.
Compared with the premiere, the characters in "Age is a Feeling" this time are more distinct. "We continue to improve the details that were not perfect in the premiere." Ruisa revealed that the original script did not have stage hints and character biographies, which left a huge space for creation. "The emotions and experiences of the characters are common and can happen in any city. Audiences of different age groups can resonate with each other. Audiences born in 1995 to those born in 00 like friendship. Best friends wearing leather jackets are rebellious and maverick. Over 30 years old The audience has more feelings about love and family. My mother came to see the play and resonated with the last part of the play and the protagonist's later years, as did the 60-year-old producer of the show. "A Feeling" star Sun Shuyue will be well-known to the public in 2022 for the variety show "Annual Comedy Competition" (Season 2). Prior to this, she worked on the stage as a director and actor as a PhD student in the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama. Some viewers said: "I have watched all of Sun Shuyue's performances in the 'Annual Comedy Competition'. Surprisingly, this one-man show was particularly beautiful, cute, sincere, and complex. I saw all the sides." Another audience member said. Comment: "One-man shows have extremely high demands on actors. Sometimes they are long monologues, and sometimes they are performed alone in multi-person scenes. They have to quickly switch between the expressions, manners, tone, and movements of different characters. Even if you don't consider the story, look at the actors The performance is also an extremely enjoyable experience. "
challenged the one-man show for the first time. Sun Shuyue said that "Age is a Feeling" requires the audience's participation to be complete. Every day's performance is unique and full of uncertainty.This specificity means that each show needs to be adjusted based on the audience's response, which is very exciting. Before the performance of "Age is a Feeling" this year, Sun Shuyue had just completed directing a small theater work, which made her cooperation with Ruisa even more tacit. "Not only from the perspective of an actor, but also from the perspective of a director, further Perfect performance."
