Wang Lin Cover News Reporter Liu Yanjun
Zheng Guangming, an orphan who once had a meal without a meal, turned into the chairman of Guangming Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group with the help of reform and opening up; a Beijing girl went to the countryside safely to become an educated youth, and became a college graduate through the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977 People's teacher; Du Dongsheng, a mountain child, rose from the factory assembly line and started a family in Shenzhen... The stories of little people, full of fireworks and human touch, narrate the great changes in the past 40 years of reform and opening up.
National Theater Theater Entrance
html On the evening of May 17, the large-scale original drama "Spring Warms the World" with the theme of reform and opening up, created by the Propaganda Department of the Guang'an Municipal Party Committee and the Chengdu Art Theater, was performed at the National Theater of China, arousing strong emotional resonance and value recognition from the Beijing audience. , gave high praise: This is a masterpiece that condenses the changes of the times and tells the story of the world of fireworks. It makes people warm, touching and endlessly memorable. According to Lin Weiran, screenwriter of thedrama "Spring Warms the World", this drama breaks the conventional approach of serious themes and grand narratives in main-melody dramas. It takes the fate changes of typical characters living in several families living in the old courtyard of the Deng family as the main line, and vividly reproduces the changes of the times. Major events such as the resumption of the college entrance examination, the land contract responsibility system, the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, and the cultivation and growth of the socialist market economy reveal the seemingly distant but actually close connection between ordinary people and the country, recording the memory of the times through small things. , creating a group of friendly, natural, individual and vivid characters.
The audience is taking pictures
From 1977 to 2024, the memory of reforms spanning more than 40 years was condensed into a 120-minute stage performance. Old objects that record the changes over time, old songs full of memories, and precious original historical images evoke memories deep in people's hearts. "Listen, the wind from the other side of the mountain is about to blow over." "There is no spring that will not come, and there will be no spring that will not warm the world." "Hong Kong is ours, and it will always be." Every clever line, Won applause from the audience.
"Everyone can find emotional resonance in the play, which is the key to the success of this play." Wang Shimao, who has worked hard in Beijing for many years, lamented that he saw himself in Zheng Guangming in the play. It was the great decision of reform and opening up that gave him the courage to go north and changed the trajectory of his life. He went from a poor boy with no food and clothing to the person in charge of a company.
I accidentally heard from relatives and friends in Beijing that "Spring Warms the World" would be performed at the National Theater. Jin Xiaoli made a special trip from Shandong to watch the show that day. "This drama is beyond my imagination. I didn't expect to be able to present the earth-shaking changes brought about by reform and opening up to the Chinese people in just 2 hours. It is very real and vivid." Jin Xiaoli said that she had experienced the whole family The hard years of having only one quilt, this drama depicts not only a group of people in the old courtyard of the Deng family, but also all the hard-working Chinese people in that era.
Zhang Xiaolin, a retired cadre from the government, had farmed and worked. After the college entrance examination was resumed, he passed the college entrance examination. She sincerely expressed emotion: The resumption of the college entrance examination brought hope to the young people at that time, carrying the possibility of fairness, dreams and change. Viewer Zhou Chen said that only by understanding how difficult it was in the past can we realize that today's happy life should be cherished even more. "The struggle experience of the young people in the play inspired me. Times have given us opportunities, and we should seize them, work hard, and realize value."
Performance scene
The rave reviews received by the Beijing premiere also made the creative team feel very satisfied. happy. "We are the beneficiaries of reform and opening up, and we should also be good narrators of this history." Ye Mengyao, who plays Zhong Fuping in the play, said that the good reputation of the audience made her more determined and tried her best to play the role and tell the story well. Liu Zhaoye, who plays Zheng Guangming, is also the star of Guang'an's large-scale original drama "Ordinary Heroes". He told the heroic story of Chai Yunzhen, the winner of the "July 1st Medal" on the stage of the National Theater. This time, in order to present the best performance to the Beijing audience, he recorded each rehearsal and watched "Finding Faults" repeatedly to polish and improve.Li Bonan, the chief director of the
drama "Spring Warms the World", said that what was met with the Beijing audience this time was a version that was polished and improved after research and discussion by the creative team. In August last year, after the show was auditioned in Chengdu, it toured many times in Shenzhen and other places, and the response was enthusiastic at every show. With the assistance of Chengdu Art Theater, Guang'an Spring Art Theater has made this artistic masterpiece a localized performance. At present, the play has been selected into large-scale stage plays and work creation projects, and has received support from the National Arts Fund. On the evening of the 21st, the play will also be performed at the Centennial Lecture Hall of Peking University.
