On November 8, Shaanxi People's Art "Mao Award" series drama "Book of Life" was staged at the Shanghai Grand Theater as part of the 23rd China Shanghai International Arts Festival's Love My China series. With a length of 5 hours, The stage reproduced the Mao Dun Literary Award-winning novel of the same name by writer Li Peifu.
drama "Book of Life" is another "Main Prize" series of stage plays by Shaanxi People's Art Theater after "White Deer Plain", "Ordinary World" and "Protagonist". "Book of Life" is a novel published by writer Li Peifu in 2012. It is also the final work of his "Plains Trilogy". Written in the first person, the novel takes the protagonist's life and psychological transformation from plain rural areas to big cities as the main line. It outlines the social changes of the past 50 years, as well as the spiritual changes of each individual living in it, recording a book The "Book of Life" belongs to many people.
Stills of "Book of Life"
This stage play is written by Li Baoqun, a national first-level screenwriter, Gong Xiaodong, a national first-level director, serves as the chief director, and three generations of actors from the troupe, old, middle and young, perform together. The entire drama lasts for 5 hours. Through the protagonist Wu Zhipeng leaving his hometown to go to university in the provincial capital and going to Beijing, Shenzhen and Shenzhen to work hard, it connects the life experiences of various characters in Wuliang Village and presents the complex relationship between cities and villages in the context of China's social changes.
""Book of Life" is a book of a lifetime written by Mr. Li Peifu based on 50 years of life accumulation; he used 50 years of life accumulation and five years of writing process to show the 50 years that we have all experienced." General Director Gong Xiaodong said.
Stills from "The Book of Life"
The whole play went through five years of polishing, the script was revised seven times, 11 expert seminars were held, and 10 revisions and improvements were made. Looking back on the five years since the creation of "Book of Life", Gong Xiaodong said, I would like to call it "building a drama with more gold content on the basis of literature."
At the Shanghai sharing meeting, Li Xuan, dean of Shaanxi People's Arts, producer and director of "Book of Life" revealed that during the five-year creation process, the crew went to Henan many times to collect stories, "Every night, we would have a meeting to discuss, everyone We talked about the plot and characters in an excited state without any thoughts of fame, fortune or money. Looking back now, I feel very happy."
Li Xuan said, "Li Peifu is from Henan, and the stories and characters in the book are from the Central Plains and China. , but also of the world.” The entire work not only traces the changes of urban and rural times, but also a fifty-year spiritual history.
There are many characters in the play, including the "lost son" Wu Zhipeng who is carrying his hometown on his back, the "Camel" who dares to think and act, the worldly and astute "old uncle", the helpless and cunning "Du Qiuyue", the ill-fated " "Liang Wufang", the tough and unfortunate "Chongsheng", each character has a unique character and a completely different destiny. They led the audience into the Henan Plain half a century ago, and experienced the ups and downs of life with the characters in the play, just like a microcosm of the times.
Stills from "The Book of Life"
Li Junqiang, the deputy director of Shaanxi People's Arts who plays "Camel/Luo Guodong" in the play, shared with the audience how to deeply understand the inner world of the character before the performance in Shanghai. Lin Kai, who plays "Diao/Wu Zhipeng", emphasized the cooperation and tacit understanding with other actors.
The stage design of the entire play makes use of every corner of the stage, and the actors perform on three-dimensional square shelves. Three large wooden frames and two cage-shaped cubes serve as the main body of the scene, creating a realistic and detached scene space, shaping historical and real time and space, and symbolizing the changes in cities and villages.
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