In "Only You", a play with only four acts, Li Shixin plays the role of a father that spans decades.

In order to reflect the state of the role of the father at every stage, Li Shixin put a lot of thought into the makeup.

Now the first act is staged, "The Road from School on the Back", he is dressed as a prime of life.

Dressed in a red pullover sweater, with a white shirt and a black wig, he looks only in his thirties.

A group of staff members of the Cultural Affairs Bureau couldn't believe it when they learned that the actors were actually in their 60s, whether it was from the actors' stride, their walking posture, to their ...... can carry the physical strength of a little actor who looks like about 1.60 meters, how can he look like a 65-year?

"Leader, let's leave him alone. Can you solve our problem?"

Hearing the urging of the tenants around him, several staff members of the Cultural Affairs Bureau waved their hands.

In a place like Rongdian, doing cultural industry management, everyone can see more in the world.

Rongdian is a city supported by theater. If the Cultural Affairs Bureau really wants to take care of the private performances without a permit, they can catch a lot of money by driving out for a walk.

So to be honest, if it weren't for the fact that they received more than a dozen reports from this small theater today, they wouldn't have bothered to care.

At this time, seeing that the performance had already been performed on stage, and he was very curious about the actors, a leader of the Cultural Affairs Bureau who took the lead waved his hand: "Wait a while, it's not bad for a while, wait until they finish the performance." ”

As he spoke, he stood aside with a few colleagues who had already been attracted by the stage.

Stage.

Li Shixin and An Xiaoxiao have already entered the play.

The first scene is about a father picking up his daughter from school on a rainy day. Because the water on the ground was very deep, the father carried his daughter home on his back. On the way, an emotional conversation between father and daughter.

The stage is carefully set up, with a large backdrop spray-painted with a rainy street scene of the school.

Before the blurred background, the daughter holds an umbrella and climbs on her father's back. My father, on the other hand, had a difficult trek through the stagnant water.

The drama stage is not a movie, and this kind of environment is reflected in the movie, and it can be done directly with a sprinkler truck and real scenes.

But the stage doesn't have these conditions.

So what to do?

Only through the background cloth can convey a general environment to the audience, and everything else requires the actors to rely on their own acting skills to convey the elements of the environment, characters and so on to the audience!

How did Li Shixin convey it?

Just pulling up the trouser legs high and dragging the legs as you walk, it seems that there is resistance at every step.

There is no water on the stage, but no matter who watches, the role of the father is wading through the water with difficulty at this time!

Just these two details, the environment in which the characters are located, are clearly and expressively expressed to all the live audiences.

After Li Shixin's training, An Xiaoxiao is not a vegetarian - by holding the umbrella tightly in his hand, plus some uncontrolled swinging movements of the umbrella from side to side. The rainy and windy environment is directly set off.

The father and daughter, in such a "stormy" environment, walked in front of the audience and started a line dialogue;

"Dad, are you tired? Look at you, you're sweating. Let me go on my own. ”

The father shook his daughter who was about to break free from the ground, and said, "Don't move, the rain is too cold, what should you do if it's free?"

"I'm such a big girl, you still carry me home, my classmates will laugh when they see it!"

"! No matter how old you are, you're also Daddy's daughter. In Dad's case, even if you start a family and have your own children, you are still a little girl. Get on your stomach!"

"Dad, it's thundering, I'm so hurt!"

"Silly girl, don't be afraid, Dad is here. “

"Dad, as long as it thunders and rains in the future, you have to come and pick me up from school, otherwise I'm afraid!"

"Okay, okay, Daddy made a note of it. ”

"No matter how busy you are at work, you have to come and pick me up. You can't forget!"

"Well, don't worry, Dad can't forget it. ”

In addition to the father's domineering refusal to let his daughter go to the ground at the beginning, most of the lines and dialogues between father and daughter are happy and angry with the daughter telling her father about some trivial things in school and family, and looking forward to the future with her father.

The cut of the first act is actually very bland, but the audience present is unconsciously shrouded by the warmth of the father and daughter in the wind and rain.

As the curtain pulls down, the first act ends.

Li Shixin hurriedly took An Xiaoxiao back to the backstage to change clothes and prepare for the next game.

"Hurry up, five minutes. Hold on tight!"

"Okay, Mr. Li!

Back backstage, Li Shixin took off his coat directly and changed into a prop suit. By the way, he glanced at Zhang Shuo, who was already standing aside.

"Decided?"

Taking off the pure black hood that represents the image of the prime of life, and replacing it with the gray hood that represents the image of the middle-aged, Li Shixin asked loudly.

Looking at Li Shixin, who was busy with work, Zhang Shuo gritted his teeth with hatred.

"One last time, this time I'm going to mess up. From then on, I ......"

Three times five divided by two to clean up his appearance, Li Shixin knocked on Zhang Shuo, pinned a groom flower on the suit he had already worn, and knocked the chestnut over with a smile.

"Stinky boy, I'm here. You can't smash it!"

Act II, the beginning.

A wedding scene was displayed in front of the audience.

As the curtain opened, the corners of his eyes wrinkled, and his father, who was slightly hunched down, sat on the stool.

"Congratulations, Lao Li, I said that I have a son-in-law and a son-in-law. From now on, you will also have a son!"

Facing the guests who came forward to congratulate him, his father's smile was a little complicated: "Hey, I hope that our little family will never be able to get married, and stay by my side." ”

"This bastard idea! How can there be a girl who doesn't marry? Lao Li, I'm afraid that the cabbage that you have raised for more than 20 years will be sent out today, and you feel uncomfortable, right?"

"you! go sit down first, and see how I clean you up on the wine table in a while!"

In the midst of the laughter with the guests, his daughter, dressed in new clothes and hairpins on her head, and her son-in-law, who was obviously nervous to death, walked up to him.

“......”

“......”

Between the two men, there was a pair of eyes for more than ten seconds.

In the awkward silence, my father snorted heavily, "Why are you stunned? Are you reluctant to toast Lao Tzu with a glass of wine and call Dad?"

"Dad......"

"Stinky boy, I have something to tell you today in front of so many guests. Don't be silent and listen to me. ”

The father glared at his son-in-law with a cold face, and then set his eyes on his daughter.

Stretching out his hand, he made a gesture like holding a cat: "When Xiaoxiao was born, he was so big. At that time, I was in the delivery room, and I thought that this was my daughter. For the rest of my life, I want to make her safe and happy. ”

"I watched her grow from the size of a cat, babbling and toddler to the height of my knees, to the height of my thighs, to the height of her waist, and to the height of her chest socket...... Twenty-four years, I have worked hard, I have not let her suffer the slightest grievance, and I have grown into such a slim girl. Now, I... I'll give her to you. ”

"Boy, you remember. But if my daughter suffers the slightest grievance with you, as long as Lao Tzu can still move, he will definitely not be able to get around you!"

"Girl, you remember. From now on he is your husband and he will accompany you for the rest of your life. But don't forget that Daddy is still here, and I will continue to love and care for you for the rest of my life. ”

"We got it, Dad!"

"Also, after getting married...... Check back often. ”

"We remember, Dad!"

With the answer of the daughter and son-in-law, the lights on the stage changed accordingly.

Halfway through the stage, the lights faded. The father sat alone in his chair, as if his time had stood still.

On the other half of the stage, the lights are highlighted. The husband and wife say goodbye to work, the daughter arranges her husband's tie, eats dinner together, and props the baby and other complicated actions, as if time has accelerated the flow.

Two scenes, occasionally intersecting.

The daughter and son-in-law came and went, and most of the time, the father was staring at the phone at hand in a daze.

The contrast between movement and stillness, the interplay of light and dark.

After the daughter gets married, the living conditions of the daughter and the father are suddenly shown in front of the audience!

On the one hand, it is lonely and lonely.

On the one hand, it is thriving.

At the end of the second act, on the dimly lit half of the stage, the father seemed to be aging faster.

The audience couldn't help it.

The father who was obviously sitting in the chair and not moving, but under the accelerated life of his daughter, the father who was declining made many elderly people in the audience inadvertently shed tears.

They seem to see themselves!