"Now the new top star in Anfu Road is Mr. Jin Shijie who has just completed the premiere of the play "Father"!" On the evening of July 27, netizen black rainbow posted a picture on Xiaohongshu of the audience surrounding Jin Shijie asking for autographs. photo. That night, the drama "Father" had its premiere at the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center Art Theater. Many audience members refused to leave after the performance. They left with satisfaction after asking for the signature of the lead actor Jin Shijie. There are also many people who immediately shared their feelings and touches from the drama "Father" on social platforms.
The drama "Father" tells the story of an old man suffering from Alzheimer's disease. In the process of getting along with his daughter, he constantly fell into the vortex of time and space where memory and reality intersect. The father in the play is played by the famous performing artist Jin Shijie, and Tian Shui, a national first-class actor and actor at the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center, plays the "daughter" in the play.
This play is the masterpiece of French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller. When it was staged in London's West End in 2014, it was evaluated by the British media as "the most acclaimed new play in the past decade". In the same year, it won the French The heavyweight drama award "Molière Drama Award" for best screenplay. Subsequently, "The Father" was staged in theater form in more than 45 countries and regions around the world. Florian Zeller also wrote and directed the original work on the big screen. In 2021, the movie "Trapped in Time" "Father" was released in mainland China. From dramas to movies, "Father" has won many international awards, not only because it shows the impact and harm Alzheimer's disease brings to a family, but also accurately depicts Alzheimer's disease through the father's first perspective. The patient is vulnerable, frightened, and lonely and has no solution to the dilemma.
The drama "Father" also achieves this effect through stage presentation and stage design. During the 125 minutes of the performance, its narrative logic is chaotic but true, using constantly reversing perspectives to put the audience in Andre's perspective. As a result, the audience saw that the space, color and furniture of the apartment would change unconsciously; towards the end of the play, the "father" kept shuttling through the eight doors, and no matter which door he opened, he would see the living room. , he was trapped in it...
Such a presentation made many viewers who walked out of the theater exclaim: "This perspective is too scary!" Some viewers shared their feelings about watching the show, "There is no need to delve into who is who, it is more important What is important is to feel it personally, to experience the chaos and uneasiness, and the isolation and helplessness caused by all the conflicting information in the mind."
Jin Shijie's performance in the play also well explains the oppression caused by this isolation and helplessness. feel. Many viewers shared on social platforms after watching it, "I saw the tears in the corners of Teacher Jin's eyes." Some viewers left a message saying: "He played the role of a patient with Alzheimer's disease very realistically. He is a little cute, a bit poisonous and a bit stubborn. The little old man is very likeable. Because he likes it, it is easier to empathize with him and he becomes more sympathetic." Sorry for him."
Before the premiere of the play, Jin Shijie once said that the greatest dramatic tension in "Father" lies in the audience's sense of substitution and how to face the pull of the final farewell in life. "Maybe it's something that can be solved in a small family meeting, but in fact many people can never get over that hurdle."
Tian Shui also continued to have internal conflicts when playing the role of his daughter Anna. Her mother suffered from Alzheimer's before her death. Heimer's disease, "This is a memory that I want to forget, and I have to pick it up again for the role. The appearance of the 'father' in the play often overlaps with the mother." However, in order to truly become the character himself, Tian Shui went through it again and again. Open yourself up, mobilize all your emotions, keep trying, and slowly find the right expression.
The exquisite structure and superb performances have also made the drama "Father" a hot topic on social platforms. Many netizens left their own "reflections after watching": "I have never seen the movie, and this is the first time I watched the drama "Father" "I cried three or five times." "When I watch this work, I think about my grandma and grandpa. What is responsibility? How do I say goodbye in the last days of my life?" "In my opinion, judging whether a play is good or not is good. An important criterion is whether you will want to read the script after watching the play.When watching this scene, I thought about it very much. "...
director Jiang Weiguo said: "This is a tragicomedy that will make the audience feel 'cheated'. It will make people curious to explore which scenes are in the protagonist's fantasy and which ones are real. "If you want to know "the taste of pears", it is better to go into the theater and experience it for yourself.
It is understood that the drama "Father" (Chinese version) will be performed at the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center until August 11, 2024. It will be performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts until the 18th.
Source: Shanghai Xuhui
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