Beijing News Recently, the Audiovisual Art Committee of the Chinese Literary Critics Association held a "Seminar on the Script of the Drama "Orbit" and the Exploration of Realistic Creation in the New Era" in Beijing. The script of the four-act drama "Track" recently created by playwright Zhou Zhentian takes the "Belt and Road" as the background and the "Youbentou Restaurant" next to the China-Europe train track as the scene. Through the changes in the appearance of a logistics distribution station, it reflects contemporary social life and the spiritual outlook of the new generation of railway staff. At the seminar, more than a dozen drama experts and scholars fully discussed the ideological connotation and artistic expression of the dialogue drama "Orbit" script, and highly affirmed the play's contemporary characteristics and the exploratory significance of realist creation. The small station, the big background, the little people, the big era, are very general and typical.
More than a dozen drama experts and scholars conducted a full discussion on the ideological connotation and artistic expression of the script of the dialogue drama "Orbit".
Xia Chao, chairman of the Chinese Literary Critics Association, pointed out that this year marks the tenth anniversary of the Literary Work Symposium. It is very meaningful to review the spirit of the speech through the study of the "Orbit" script. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the symposium on literature and art work: "People are not abstract symbols, but concrete people with flesh and blood, emotions, love and hate, dreams, and inner conflicts and struggles." This is also the specific requirement for realist creation in the new era. "Track" created by Zhou Zhentian starts from the impact of the "One Belt, One Road" national strategy on the people, and writes about the daily life, joys and sorrows, the lights of thousands of homes, the bitterness and sweetness, and he brings the characters in the play to life. , making readers feel that they are the people around us.
Zhong Chengxiang, a librarian at the Central Museum of Literature and History, said that it is not easy for "Track" to be able to start from life, create vivid stories, and create characters with personality and a sense of destiny. Regarding the deepening of the theme and the creation of images, the "Tao" of "Track" is not only the way of material life, but also the way of spiritual pursuit. "Orbit" once again proves that any grand narrative and popular selection must be aesthetically and artistically innovative in order to be successful. Wang Shoude, vice chairman of the Chinese Drama Association, said that "Track" is an advanced text and a relatively mature play. "In recent years, the phenomenon of sameness, conceptualization and homogeneity in our drama creation has been relatively common. This play is exactly the opposite." , de-simultaneity, de-homogenization”.
Zhou Zhentian, the creator of "Orbit", fully exchanged opinions with the experts, thanked you for your insights, further polished the script, made it perfect, and strived to meet the audience with a high-quality drama.
editor Wu Longzhen
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