The drama "Yaoyaodongba", which will be performed at the Shanghai Theater from August 16th to September 1st, has officially entered the hottest rehearsal stage. A few days ago, the crew opened the studio for media visits. A reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News walked into the rehearsal site of "Yao Yao Dong Eight" and watched the creative process of director Lai Shengchuan and his team despite the heat wave.
In October this year, Lai Shengchuan will celebrate his 70th birthday. He jokes that he is "an old man in the Chinese drama circle", but his schedule is still non-stop. On August 6, he traveled to and from Wuzhen, Shanghai, to attend the Wuzhen Theater Festival press conference. On August 7, he began to rehearse the drama "Yaoyaodongba" in the rehearsal hall of the Shanghai Theater.
"Yaoyaodongba" is a work created by Lai Shengchuan in 2019. It is a poem written to Shanghai. Five years have not faded it, but have been washed out to reflect the glory of this era. "Premium package", "School district room", "Popular writers are everyone's teachers", "Edward, the smart voice speaker that listens to writers at any time", "Do people today still have true love?"...Several hot memes that fit the context of the times. Buried in the actors' lines, it will inevitably make people smile.
"I want to sublimate the relationship between your two characters and let the current audience understand that this kind of 'sacrifice' was a normal choice back then." Not long after the rehearsal started, Lai Shengchuan began to tell actors Dou Jin and Fan Guangyao play. From the relationship between the characters and the movement of the actors to the smallest look, movement, tone of voice, and even the placement of a bag, he had to carefully figure it out. When it comes to passion, he will personally give guidance.
"Yaoyaodongba" was inspired by an old warehouse in Hongkou, Shanghai. In this story, Bai Shi, an anti-Japanese underground worker from 1943, and Shu Tong, a writer in 2024, met in the same warehouse. The two eras were connected by a romantic thread...
In 2019, Ni Ni challenged The character Shu Tong, the writer, can freely switch between multiple languages in long lines of lines, and has received many praises. Dou Jin, who plays the role this time, is a young actor from Shanghai Theater Company. He played Gu Xianglan with Ni Ni in the exclusive version of "A Dream Like a Dream". Dou Jin will play the two roles of "writer Shu Tong" and "Anna" in the play. This is also the third time she has collaborated with Fan Guangyao. The two showed a tacit understanding at the rehearsal scene and will also "discuss" with Lai Shengchuan.
Lai Shengchuan said: "There are so many former residences of celebrities in Shanghai. They are not just there for you to visit, but to feel that these people belong to this city. They live in this city just like you. It is this Countless people and history have made up the current city.”
Text丨Reporter He Jing
Picture丨Provided by the organizer
