Chapter 120 A play, saving a drama

When the People's Republic of China was just founded, Liyuan Xing received a lot of praise for actively participating in the Anti-Japanese War, supporting the volunteers, and encouraging the people, and the quintessence of Peking Opera was the foundation laid at that time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, because there were too many literati operas, the common people could not understand them, and they lost their previous literati audience, and gradually declined.

Kunqu opera is the direct genre of the four major vocal chambers of Southern Opera, because it is deeply loved by the literati group and the court, and has developed rapidly, and has developed a complete and perfect opera system in a few decades, which has a far-reaching influence, and can be regarded as a master of a hundred operas.

As long as you sing Peking Opera, the small section during the student period is basically still in contact with Kunqu Opera, because Kunqu Opera has a very complete system for body training, and Mr. Mei Lanfang's "Drunken Concubine" is based on the figure of Kunqu Opera.

However, due to the small audience and the lack of grounding, although the audience has a good impression of Kunqu Opera, because Kunqu Opera used to be synonymous with elegance, but it was really incomprehensible, and it gradually declined.

At this time, the old artists of Kunqu Opera were very worried about the development of Kunqu Opera, and remembered that the playwright Zhu Suchen in the Qing Dynasty wrote a legendary book called "The Tale of Two Bears", and created a "Fifteen Runs" based on this book.

The theme is to expose and criticize the subjective assumptions and the bureaucratic style of following the rules, and praise the spirit of seeking truth from facts, which is very in line with the political trend of the time, and the plot is also down-to-earth.

The creative team of "Fifteen Runs" at that time was Kong Ping's Jiangsu-Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe, and the performers were the old artists of Kong Ping's master's generation.

As soon as the play "Fifteen Runs" came out, it had a strong response and reached out to the people to love it, and Premier Zhou specially invited the Kunqu Opera Troupe of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to perform in the capital after hearing about it. "Fifteen Runs" is rich in people and quite artistic. ”

The chairman also watched this play himself, and after watching it, he gave three instructions: first, congratulations on the change and success of the performance. Second, to promote this play, everything that is suitable for performance can be changed according to the characteristics of each play, and third, it is a reward for the troupe.

The trend of "Fifteen Runs" was unparalleled at that time, and the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Kunqu Opera Troupe performed 47 performances in the capital for a month and a half, with an audience of 70,000 people, and then mainstream operas such as Peking Opera, Ping Opera, and Henan Opera began to change.

Master Tian Han, the father of the national anthem, personally wrote an interview for "Fifteen Runs" and published it in the "People's Daily", with the title of "One Play, Save One Drama"

The success of this play lies in the fact that it has changed well and brought the proposition of elegance and vulgarity into full play.

The change from the traditional repertoire is in line with the history and the cultural nature of Kunqu Opera, and the content of the change is in line with the environment of the country at that time.

Moreover, "Fifteen Runs" has a strong national style, which makes the general public, who originally had some respect for Kunqu Opera, know the charm of this opera, and let the people no longer have some objective views.

Finally, "Fifteen Runs" conformed to the political correctness of the promotion of the cultural theme of "a hundred flowers bloom and bring forth the new" at that time.

Finally, it is the central expression of the "Tenth Five-Year Run", the ideological core, which opposes subjectivism and bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy in feudal times was very bad, and subjectivism was also careless of human life. The subjectivism of today's cadres is also very misleading, the nature is the same, and the ideological methods are similar.

Subjectivism needs the shelter of bureaucracy, and without bureaucracy, subjectivism cannot be so powerful. The governor was a bureaucrat and represented the imperial court. Through the comparison between the two, the play praised the serious and serious style of seeking truth from facts and the style of justice. Advocating seeking truth from facts is a main line of the play. The play also criticizes the five vices of the old society (gambling, prostitution, stealing, killing, and cheating).

Lou Arat, a vicious character, does not ask about his background, but he can make all the people feel the same way, and they have heard or seen this kind of bad guy.

"Fifteen Runs" saved Kunqu Opera, but also brought a huge opera fever, at that time, it was a period of vigorous development of Liyuan Xingzui, even more brilliant than the Ming and Qing dynasties.

But it finally stopped at that decade.

Kong Ping has never experienced the death of Kunqu opera, or the history of opera, but he feels the same way, because they are now in the same environment as they were back then, and it is even worse.

The people who can perform on the stage of Kunqu Opera now are said to have '800 heroes of Kunqu Opera' in the whole country, but in fact, there are only two or three hundred people, which is a great tragedy for Kunqu Opera, which once had nearly 10,000 practitioners in the Dragon Country.

Originally, Kong Ping was not too surprised that Wang Yao was able to create a script, because his master Xu Feng was an opera researcher, and with Xu Feng's help, Wang Yao was not surprised to make some achievements.

But after watching "The Legend of Wu Xun" with her own eyes, Kong Ping burst into tears with excitement, "The Legend of Wu Xun", a form that has broken away from the traditional Yue Opera performance, has added a lot of new things, and it will definitely not be Xu Feng's credit, then it must be Wang Yao's talent.

Seeing this play, Kong Ping really saw the way out of the opera, just like the excitement of the masters of Xu Yulan when it was the first premiere.

Although the performance on stage was not perfect.

After Wang Yao's explanation, Xiang Linkai quickly enlightened, and slowly blended in with the supporting characters, and the plot became vivid, no longer scattered, although there are still some flaws, but as long as it is slowly run-in, this drama will be completed.

"Senior sister, what do you think, why are you crying?" Wang Yao watched the drama almost, turned his head and wanted to ask Kong Ping's opinion, but saw her covering her small mouth, and crystal tears rolled down the back of her hand along her big bright eyes.

He Saifei also looked back and chuckled, "Maybe I was stupidly crying." ”

Kong Ping wiped her tears, glanced at He Saifei, and looked at Wang Yao with tears in her eyes.

Wang Yao's heart was furious when he was seen, and he handed over a tissue, "Eyes into the sand?"

"I don't care, you have to change this play for us Kunqu Opera, let's sing it. Kong Ping took the tissue and blew her nose.

The corners of Wang Yao's mouth twitched, "It's no problem to change, but I have to wait for the performance to be successful, if not, I have to write something else." ”

"This drama can be done. Director Yang Fan said suddenly.

Wang Yao was stunned and smiled, "Thank you for your good words." ”

"I witnessed the appearance of 'Fifteen Runs', even though I was young at the time. Director Yang Fan looked at Wang Yao and said, "Kunqu opera and Cantonese opera were criticized after liberation, which is also the reason for the malaise, but Kunqu opera is a native after all, more than 600 years of foundation, will not be shaken because of this wind and rain, Kong Ping's master and them, more than a dozen people formed a small troupe, on the southern side of the inspection performance, and finally sorted out "Fifteen Runs". ”

Wang Yao raised his eyebrows slightly, "Do you think my play is very similar to it?"

"From the perspective of the big era, it is very similar, almost identical, the same dilemma, the same innovation. Director Yang Fan nodded and said, "Although the box office of my movie is not very good, I still have some understanding of the market. ”

Wang Yao's breath stagnated, and he smiled and arched his hand, "Thank you Director Yang for your encouragement." ”

"I'm not encouraging, I said it, you're a genius. Director Yang Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, "From head to toe." ”

"There is no genius in Liyuan, it is all provided by blood and sweat. Xu Feng suddenly spoke.

Director Yang Fan was stunned and smiled, "What I said is that they are all geniuses who are provided by blood and sweat." ”

"I'll go find fault with them first, and you can sit down for a while. Wang Yao smiled, got up and jumped on stage.

"Can Old Xu's play succeed?" Kong Ping blinked and looked at Xu Feng with some watery eyes.

"Done. Xu Feng nodded, "But I don't know if there will be waves." ”

"That's it, Wang Yao, I have to push him out. Kong Ping glanced at Wang Yao on the stage, pursed her lips and said hatefully, and gritted her teeth a little.

"It's too early. Xu Feng frowned and shook his head, "He is still too young and impetuous, if he goes crooked at this time, it will be ruined." ”

"But he is so talented, and he will not survive if he stays with you. Kong Ping frowned and said, "Our Kunqu Opera is going to be desperate, the ancestors took out all the things they looked after, and put them in front of me on two roads, taking the treasures left by these ancestors into the museum, and the second is the same as fifty years ago, and then making a national storm." ”

"Why are you kid getting more and more extreme?" Xu Feng paused for a moment, frowned and said, "The environment of Kunqu Opera is difficult, but everyone is trying to figure out a way, and it's not yet time to make a desperate bet." ”

"Can't wait. Kong Ping shook her head: "There are hundreds of old people behind me." ”

Xu Feng was silent for a moment and sighed, "Say it again, say it again." ”

"Principal Xu, this apprentice, how did you teach it?" Director Yang Fan smiled and diverted the topic.

"This kind of apprentice is not easy to teach, and he made it himself. Xu Feng touched his beard and smiled proudly.

There is a saying in the pear orchard line, the drama is dead, and the people are alive.

A play is all lines and books, although the singing tone is indicated, but how to sing is still based on the actor's own understanding and understanding, a role, a hundred people to play is a hundred roles, there is no one that can be completely reproduced, this is also one of the characteristics of opera, change.