On the evening of April 5, the original drama "Spring Dawn on Su Di" was performed at the National Theater Theater. This excellent play, written by Tian Qinxin and Zhang Kunpeng, directed by Tian Qinxin and Gao Leilei, and starring Xin Baiqing, an outstanding actor from the National Theater of China, presents to the audience a sentimental, talented, interesting and distinctive image of Su Dongpo.
What is different from the past is that on the same day, "Spring Dawn on Su Di" also opened the "second scene", launching six cities for the first time to be broadcast simultaneously in real time. Theater audiences in Shanghai, Chengdu, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Wuzhen have authorized theaters in various places to watch simultaneously with those in Beijing.
From the drama "Su Dongpo" by Sichuan People's Art Theatre, to the musical "Su Dongpo", the modern dance poetry drama "Poetry Recalling Dongpo", to the Peking Opera "Yi Li Yan Yu" and Sichuan Opera "Dream Back to Dongpo", in recent years, the stage has Works based on Su Dongpo continue to emerge, showing the images of Su Dongpo from different angles, allowing Dongpo culture to continue to enter people's field of vision.
"Spring Dawn on the Su Causeway" opens the "Second Scene"
As an invited play at the 18th China Theater Festival, "Spring Dawn on the Su Causeway" was performed at the Hangzhou Grand Theater in November 2023 and won the "Excellent Play Award". After the Spring Festival this year, the crew gathered in Beijing and actively revised and polished it. A new round of performances was launched on March 4, with over one million tickets sold within one hour of opening, and a record of 2 million tickets sold on the first day.
At the curtain call of the premiere in Hangzhou last year, the audience shouted: National tour! In order to respond to the audience's enthusiasm, the drama team also creatively launched a six-city linkage real-time simultaneous broadcast. On the evening of April 5, many audiences came to the Chengdu High-tech Center Performing Arts Theatre, and tickets for the public welfare performance had already been sold out. The "multi-camera, multi-scenery, multi-angle" film and television method realizes the real-time and lifelike reproduction of stage art in the second scene, allowing audiences thousands of miles away to feel as if they are actually there and fully feel the actors on stage. The artistic charm conveyed in every frown and smile.
"Spring Dawn on Su Di" is another historical masterpiece directed by Tian Qinxin, director of the National Theater of China, after "Green Snake", "Beijing Fayuan Temple" and "Listening to Hongyi". The play adopts a non-linear narrative structure, depicting the life experiences of Su Dongpo, a famous scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, especially the two experiences of serving in Hangzhou. It revolves around the two choices of birth and entry into the world, and unfolds the relationship between Su Dongpo and his family, colleagues, teachers, bosses, people and Hangzhou. Relationship.
Visually, the play is based on the rhyme of the Song Dynasty, and innovatively uses landscape painting images to create a stage space that is paradoxical, paradoxical, real and illusory, and awe-inspiring, showing the style and atmosphere of the "Song Dynasty" during the heyday of Chinese traditional culture. Rhyme.
This is also the sixth time actor Xin Baiqing has collaborated with director Tian Qinxin. Once again interpreting the image of a literati, Xin Baiqing said bluntly: "Su Shi is the character I most want to play after Li Bai and Wang Yangming. This work allowed me to understand Su Dongpo more deeply. I created it with full emotion and respect. I hope the audience can understand it through In this play, you can feel Mr. Su Dongpo's elegance, passion and humor, and at the same time, you can see Mr. Su Shi's bold and free-spirited, broad-minded and transcendent state of life, where he forgets both things and himself."
"Dongpo Fever" is constantly being stirred up on the stage
. Su Dongpo must be familiar to everyone. He was a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty and his poems are famous all over the world. In recent years, "Dongpo Fever" has continued unabated, and literary and artistic works based on Su Dongpo have continued to be produced. Through combing, the reporter found that with the emergence of a large number of Su Dongpo-themed stage works such as dramas, dance dramas, Peking opera, Sichuan opera, and musicals, they have brought multiple artistic experiences to the audience.
Stills from the drama "Su Dongpo"
As one of the earliest drama groups in China, Sichuan People's Art has created and performed many times with Su Dongpo as the theme. In 2017, Sichuan People's Art Theater staged a large-scale drama "Su Dongpo", which started from the Wutai Poetry Case and traced the ups and downs of Su Dongpo's life experience from the age of 44 to his death at the age of 64. The play breaks through the original drama framework on the stage and creatively integrates the composition of Sichuan Opera with "acoustic vocals" and "drummers". Breakthroughs and transcendences have been achieved in terms of regional cultural characteristics.In 2022, on this basis, a cultural tourism and drama "Su Dongpo" resident performance was created. So far, more than 140 performances have been performed.
Dong Fan (right) plays Mrs. Cheng and Xie Liming (left) plays Su Xun at the rehearsal scene of the drama "Su Mu"
In 2024, another large-scale original drama "Su Mu" by Sichuan People's Art Theater will be released on April 27 and 28 Premiered at Beijing Tianqiao Art Center. The play is directed by national first-level director Cha Lifang, written by national first-level screenwriter Chen Lili, and stars Dong Fan, a famous performing artist and national first-level actor. Through "Su's mother" Mrs. Cheng, she persuades her husband to make a career, teaches her children to learn, and manages the household. Rich’s story shows the great female power behind “Three Sus”.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to getting a glimpse of Mrs. Cheng's little-known story through "Su Mu", the audience can also witness the "three Sus" - Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Zhe gathering on the stage of the drama as "supporting actors".
Stills from the musical "Su Dongpo"
Also in April this year, the musical "Su Dongpo" will also be performed at the Haikou Oriental Global Theater, thus kicking off the show's 2024 tour. In the 110-minute performance of the musical "Su Dongpo", 18 musical works are intertwined, selectively reproducing the important experiences and events of Su Dongpo's legendary life, and showing Su Shi's broad mind, emotions and structure.
The modern dance poetry drama "Poetry of Dongpo" has been performed in Hangzhou, Beijing, Chengdu, and Xi'an since its premiere in Shanghai in July 2023. Many audiences expressed their feelings about the performance by saying "Don't see Dongpo, but Dongpo is everywhere". "Poetry of Dongpo" is produced by China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. and the Propaganda Department of the Meishan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. The play does not directly describe Su Dongpo's life and circumstances, nor does it directly stand Su Dongpo on the stage as a "drama character", but Under the aesthetic style of contemporary theater, modern dance that deeply integrates opera, Tai Chi and other ethnic vocabulary is the main body, Guqin music is used to dialogue with modern music, and multiple visual effects are achieved with the help of poetry, calligraphy, painting, seal cutting and other stage art techniques. , showing the soul, love, worry and nostalgia of the poet Su Dongpo.
Stills from the Peking Opera "A Coop of Misty Rain"
In addition, the national dance drama "Dongpo Hainan" begins with the boat trip from Dongpo and ends with the return to Qiongbei. The five scenes of "Tianya School" and "Hongxue Dream" relive the great writer Su Dongpo's years of exile in Hainan.
The Peking Opera "A Coop of Misty Rain" harkens back to the three nights when Su Dongpo was demoted to Huangzhou for the "Wutai Poetry Case". During these three nights, there were wine, poetry, friends, and the unexpected encounter with himself.
The musical poetry drama "The Feast of Life" poetically tells the life legend of Su Dongpo through the live performance of more than 20 poems and more than 20 pieces of music.
's new historical Sichuan opera "Dream Back to Dongpo" uses the dramatic structure of prose and breaks the clues of time and space to tell the story of the old and twilight Su Dongpo, who traces his past life in his dream on a stormy night in Changzhou.
Stills of Sichuan Opera "Dream Back to Dongpo"
Regarding the "Dongpo Fever" that continues to rise on the stage, Cai Shangwei, professor at the School of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University and director of the Cultural Industry Research Center of Sichuan University, said in an interview with a Red Star News reporter that the Dongpo Culture Therefore, it has endured for a long time and has continued to be popular in recent years. First of all, traditional culture has gained new charm in the continuous evolution and development, and has been loved by more contemporary people, especially young people; and the fundamental reason is the life of Su Dongpo Experience, talent and the deep charm of his works, especially his many classic works with wide coverage, high level, and close connection with the spirit of modern people, "He is unique among ancient Chinese cultural figures. I myself call Su Dongpo... The all-around champion of Chinese traditional culture.”
Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao and editor Zeng Qi
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