Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) The drama "Age is a Feeling" produced by Shanghai Guanyi Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., directed by young director Lu Isha and starring actor Sun Shuyue will be held in China from April 11 to 14 Performed in the Grand Theater and Little Theater. In August 2023, the Chinese version of the play premiered at the Drama Salon of the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. In this round of performances, director Ruisha made more detailed adjustments based on the premiere version to adapt to the localized adaptation. , adjusting several characters and relationships in the play to be more specific.
Sun Shuyue starred in the drama "Age is a Feeling".
"Age is a Feeling" opens with "you" and tells the story of a woman's life from the age of 25 to the end of her life. The only starring role in the whole drama, as a mysterious narrator, shows the story of "you" from the beginning to the end of her life. The family, love, and friendship experienced from the age of 25 to the end of life are composed of 12 independent but related stories such as inbox, book, egg, tooth, airplane, dog, restaurant, and wild apple tree. Each performance has three rounds of drawing rounds, and the audience decides which six stories will be displayed on the stage. "Age is a Feeling" makes the performance full of unknowns with its "never repeated twice" performance format. , as the protagonist of the script said: "No one understands everything that will happen in your life, not even yourself." This one-person drama was created by Canadian screenwriter Haley McGee. The original version premiered in 2022 and will It was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and received many high scores. It was subsequently performed at the Soho Theater in London and won first prize at the Edinburgh Festival and was nominated for the Olivier Award in London. Director Ruisa of
once calculated that arranging and combining 12 different stories will produce 216 results. This form of performance makes the performance like opening a blind box in life, full of surprises. The novel viewing relationship allows the audience to feel like they are participating in "your" life when they enter the theater. The protagonist of the play is a woman who is not so successful in the eyes of traditional parents. However, she has been following her heart all her life, letting her feelings write her life story, and frankly facing her inner anxieties, entanglements, and persistence. Trying to experience, observe and think about the meaning of life and how to live, director Ruisa hopes to convey the message "you have done a good job" to the audience through this play.
starring Sun Shuyue will be well-known to the public for the second season of the variety show "Annual Comedy Competition" in 2022. Before that, she had been working on the theater stage as a director and actor for many years. As the person who introduced this script to China and also the director of the play, Ruisa read this script by chance and watched the original performance in London. She was deeply attracted by the gentle and powerful stories and characters in the script. attract. How to express the sense of "age" in the passage of time, and how to convey the feeling of "age" to the hearts of the audience, take care of the audience's emotions, and let the audience continue to experience and think about it while experiencing this story, this is what director Ruisa has always wanted to do. Questions to think about.
editor, Tian Sini
proofreader, Chen Diyan
