Caption: Stills of "The Clothes of the Rong and the Barbarians"
The profound and delicate stage touches give a unique modern interpretation of the famous historical story that took place in the Warring States Period when the Rong and the Barbarians took off their clothes. On August 4, the stage play "The Clothes of the Rong Yi" produced by Yanghua Drama premiered at the Lao She Theater in Beijing, and immediately began a national tour that lasted nearly three months.
"Rong Yi's Clothes" is adapted from the story of Rong Yi's undressing in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals: The Eighth Edition of Shijun's View". Rong Yi, a righteous Mohist from Qi State, and his disciple Shi Xin went to Lu State to provide assistance. They encountered a heavy snowstorm on the way, and they slept outside the city. 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, but Shi Xin survived, and the story begins. On the stage, a "black snow" flew with the strong wind on the stage, and the actors gave the audience a very impactful opening with their modern body language. Black "snowflakes" fell one after another, covering the entire stage densely, as if standing on the ashes of history, a thick legend was being narrated.
Centering on the theme of "the barbarians undressed and died, but the disciples survived", the stage play unfolds a dramatic story spanning 36 years with a narrative interspersed in time and space. Shi Xin went from defecting to the Grand Sima of the Chu State, to killing his father-in-law and defecting to the Qin State, and finally to being killed by the King of Qin. The sins spread day by day on the protagonist, while the moral order runs forever. With...
Caption: Yu Xiaoguang plays Shi Xin
From script writing to stage presentation, it embodies the main creator's repeated questioning, exploration and reflection. Screenwriter Li Jing introduced that the creation of "The Clothes of Rong Yi" began in 2017. She was attracted by the moral paradox implicit in the story, that is, a moral person can only truly live through self-sacrifice. If he is committed to preserving himself, then He is actually dead. In addition, she couldn't help but think, if the master puts the cotton coat on the apprentice, how will the apprentice live in the future? The play is based on these two points. It mainly explores the relationship between a person's self and his conscience, or how a person faces the contradiction between his physical life and the requirements of his conscience. Wang Keran, the art director of
, said that Yang Hua has a principle that will never be subverted in all his works, which is to never make works that make people more desperate. Behind the criticism shown in "The Clothes of Rong Yi" is the author's profound and extremely profound thoughts. A sharp desire for hope, even if it means using all "blackness" to promote the establishment of hope. From script text to stage presentation, the principle that must be followed is to make it look good.
The "black snow" on the stage is the imagination space that director Huang Longbin felt he could give the audience when he saw the script. It is a projection of the "chaos" of the world created in the script, and "black" symbolizes human beings. desire. He likes the discussion of good and evil in Li Jing's works. The protagonist seems to be making choices all the time, but in fact he has no choice. He keeps making choices because he wants to survive, until he finally dies. Theater, history, desire, choice, imagination, these are the five keywords Huang Longbin refined for this work.
According to Yu Xiaoguang, the actor who plays Shi Xin, Shi Xin is a black mirror with many facets like a diamond. He is a certain face of many people, and every moment of him is real, but when If he turns around, he will forget his original side. His existence has given many such people in life a warning example, and creating such a character actor requires smashing himself into pieces.
Writer Zhi'an was impressed by the complexity of the play. Shi Xin's life has always been in a complex situation of survival and victory. Zhi'an lamented: "The core of the work is the 'difficulty of choice', which is an eternal problem. The problems raised in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" are still not solved in today's dramas, because this complex problem will never be solved. Therefore, it will give us a lot of resonance and thinking."After the premiere of
, the stage play "The Clothes of Rong Yi" will soon embark on a nearly three-month nationwide tour, covering Shenyang, Baoding, Zhengzhou, Binzhou, Liaocheng, Lianyungang, Taizhou, Qidong, Zhuji, Xiamen, Fuzhou, More than 20 cities, including Quzhou, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Ganzhou, Zhuhai, Haikou, Nanning, Nanchang, Hengyang, Ji'an, Yichun, Hengshui, Ordos, Yulin, and Hohhot, bring a new audiovisual and spiritual experience to the audience
(Xinmin). Evening News reporter in Beijing Zhao Yue)
