Beijing News (Reporter Liu Wei) The stage play "The Clothes of Rong Yi" produced by Yanghua Drama recently premiered at the Lao She Theater in Beijing. The play provides a modern interpretation with a unique perspective on this historical masterpiece that took place during the Warring States Period. At the drama forum held at the same time as the premiere, the main creators, actors, experts and scholars expressed their opinions. It is reported that the play is about to embark on a large-scale national tour.
Stills from the stage play "The Clothes of Rong Yi".
The stage play "Rong Yi's Clothes" is adapted from the story of Rong Yi undressing in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals: The Eighth Edition of Shijun's Views": Rong Yi, a righteous Mohist from the Qi State, and his disciple Shi Xin went to the State of Lu to provide aid, but encountered a heavy snowstorm on the way. , the two slept outside the city. After a dispute, Rong Yi took off his cotton-padded clothes and gave them to his disciples. He himself froze to death in the middle of the night, and his disciple Shi Xin survived... The story thus began, centering around the theme of "Rong Yi took off his clothes and died, but his disciples survived", and was based on time and space. The interspersed narrative unfolds a dramatic story spanning 36 years.
The stage of "The Clothes of Rong Yi" presents a dialogue of ideas across time, and the creative team of this work also spans the mainland and Hong Kong: Wang Keran, the artistic director of Yanghua Drama, serves as the artistic director of this play; the famous playwright, literary Critic, Li Jing, winner of the Lao She Literary Award for Outstanding Drama Script Award and the Chinese Literature Media Award for Critic of the Year, writes scripts; has participated in more than 120 performances and won 6 directing awards, and is the deputy dean of the School of Drama of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Huang Longbin, head of the performance department and director of the physical training course, serves as the director. The design team of the play, including stage design, lighting design, costume design, choreography, music design, etc., are all from Hong Kong. They work hand in hand with the mainland stage technical team to present the visual effects of the play.
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After the premiere of "The Clothes of Rong Yi", the organizers held a drama forum with the theme of "My Body, My Soul and My History". Screenwriter Li Jing said that the play mainly explores the relationship between a person's self and his conscience. Artistic Director Wang Keran said that when he saw the work "The Clothes of Rong Yi", he was surprised that from the first word to the last word of the script, everyone in the play was very "conceptual", but behind everyone It expresses a kind of severe pain, which forms a kind of construction of man's own civilization. "What everyone has been exploring so far is the possibility of living and the criticism behind it. What I like is that so many characters are used in the play to promote the criticism of this kind of thinking. And behind the criticism, I think The author has a profound and extremely sharp desire for hope, and uses all "black" to promote the establishment of hope. "Director Huang Longbin said that he liked the discussion of good and evil in the work. The protagonist seems to be making choices all the time, but In fact, he had no choice. "He kept making choices because he wanted to live, until he finally died." After the premiere of
, the stage play "The Clothes of Rong Yi" is about to embark on a nearly three-month national tour. The footprints cover Shenyang, Baoding, Zhengzhou, Binzhou, Liaocheng, Lianyungang, Taizhou, Qidong, Zhuji, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Quzhou, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Ganzhou, Zhuhai, Haikou, Nanning, Nanchang, Hengyang, Ji'an, Yichun, Hengshui, Ordos, More than 20 cities including Yulin and Hohhot.
editor, Xu Meilin
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