Chapter 171: The Great Playwright's Commentary
"God can testify that A Doll's House is a very, very beautiful play! Not only did the audience cheer wildly, but they also stomped on the floor and broke chairs to a rattle. The warm applause that lasted for nearly two minutes was everyone's greatest praise for "A Doll's House" and the greatest recognition of the actors' performances! -- "Yuezhou Evening News".
"A Doll's House was a huge success because it had a really good cast of actors. The incomparably wonderful interpretation has created a classic in the history of drama. The heroine, Nala, will surely become a classic noun and a legend. -- Dongguang Evening News.
"The effect of the play 'A Doll's House' is generated through the heroine Nala, and the success depends on her performance. This is almost a women's play, and it is her emotions that support the whole play. It focuses on one person and bursts out of her alone. The play takes place within four walls, focusing on the conflict of everyday life, but yet it has a rallying force - to reform society, especially the institution of marriage. This kind of spiritual connotation has made it have a high leap forward and become a classic, and no social drama can surpass its existence! -- Dongguang Daily.
These are all comments made by some local media in Dongguang the day after watching the performance of "A Doll's House", and they all praised the excitement of the play.
Whether it is for the performers or for the creators, it is given the highest praise.
Although Fang Chengshi has left the "Yuezhou Evening News", the evening newspaper is still very concerned about Su Wen's works, in addition to the news column to report on this work, the literary column also published a special drama appreciation, a comprehensive review of Su Wen's creative process, and finally summarized in "A Doll's House", saying that he "created a great drama." It condenses a high degree of ideological connotation, and will surely occupy a place in the history of literature, classic and great"!
Anyone who has watched "A Doll's House", especially the literati in the literary and artistic circles, may not praise how wonderful the plot of this play is, but. For the ideas contained in it, they will not take it lightly.
This is definitely a great women's drama that sounded the clarion call for women's liberation and became a symbol of women's awakening!
People outside of Guangdong City can't watch theatrical performances for the first time, but Matrix Culture Company's distribution ability is particularly strong, and at the same time as "A Doll's House" is staged, it has distributed physical books to the markets of many big cities across the country.
Because of various media reports on the grand performance, especially someone uploaded a two-minute video of the audience standing ovation to the Internet. For a while, readers who were interested in theater knew the name of "A Doll's House".
As soon as the physical book arrived, they went to the bookstore to buy it and appreciate the essence of the words of "A Doll's House" as soon as possible.
Looking at the text, the blandness in the early stage was suppressed for a long time, and in the end, Nala's outburst, this reversal made people even more shocking, and I admired the author's layout even more.
They praised "A Doll's House".
Word-of-mouth can boost sales.
Less than a week. Tang Ya received calls from major booksellers, asking for more orders. Let their company quickly ship the books from "A Doll's House" to the bookstore.
This made Tang Ya ecstatic, you must know that she has already gambled on the printing volume of the first issue of "A Doll's House", and the first batch of three million copies was printed.
Now it seems that she still underestimated the charm of "A Doll's House".
"It seems that Mr. Tan is right, this work is more worth looking forward to in the publishing market!" Tang Ya remembered Tan Yao's sworn judgment, and couldn't help but feel a great increase in confidence. All at once, three million copies were printed.
"Two issues of six million copies, should be able to meet the capacity of the market, right?" Tang Ya thought so in her heart, but she had greater ambitions, hoping that the sales of "A Doll's House" would bring her greater surprises.
After the success of the first performance of "A Doll's House", the Matrix Company immediately launched their big move - the five troupes that had been rehearsing together before. I started the motor at once, went to other cities and counties in Dongguang Province, and took advantage of the current situation that everyone was applauding, and performed in various places.
Although these troupes are not as appealing as Gao Bing, nor do they have her performance skills, after all, they have been rehearsing for more than a month, and the actors are all professional, so they can still perform a little bit of Nala's image.
Nala's experience resonated with everyone, and the troupe was welcomed and applauded everywhere, and the box office of the performance continued to rise.
The two markets of performance and publishing helped each other, and all of a sudden, "A Doll's House" was as pompous as Romeo and Juliet before it.
The Matrix Company is much stronger than the Fresh Culture Company, and in less than a week, it was only in Dongguang Province that they made a noise, and they immediately announced that they would perform in the whole country - of course, this is what the headquarters of the Matrix Group is operating.
The reason why the matrix group has become a giant is also related to their business strategy, they have set up branches in various provinces, let them operate freely, reach out to the people, adapt to local conditions, and produce cultural works that the locals like to see. If the sales are good and the influence is formed, they will pull the work to the head office, operate it in a unified manner, and do their best to harvest money in the national market.
Today, "A Doll's House" enjoys this treatment.
This momentum is quite fast, even if "Romeo and Juliet" has been on the market for more than a month, it is just worthy of such fame.
This is the difference between large companies and small companies, the former can easily mobilize its huge resources, build momentum for products, and spread the stall to the whole country at once, forming a greater momentum; And small companies can only accumulate slowly, one step at a time, and the pace is much slower.
Soon a week passed.
The first thing to be submitted to Tang Ya was the weekly sales report of the physical book "A Doll's House"!
2,700,000 copies!
"Two ,700,000 ...... It's two hundred and seventy! When Tang Ya saw this data, she felt suffocated.
That's just a week's worth of sales!
What a week!
According to the usual practice, in a month, more than five or six million copies are properly produced, and in a whole year, ten million is also possible!
10 million sales, for those great writers who have become famous. Maybe they can reach it in a week. However, for most writers, this is a high bar -
A work can only be said to be a bestseller if it sells more than 10 million.
The threshold of best-selling authors is not so easy to cross. Once it is crossed, it is a recognition and praise of strength. From then on, the road of the literary world will be much looser, and he will be allowed to gallop.
Tang Ya asked Su Wen to cooperate, just to see that he was famous in Dongguang Province, young and had great potential, she never expected Su Wen to give her such a big surprise!
"This is only Su Wen's second published work...... Tang Ya can't imagine Su Wen's future.
Who will he use as his reference?
Xie Kun?
The early works of this great playwright back then, it is already very good that one can sell two or three million copies. He stayed up for many years, slowly accumulated fame, and finally became an instant hit. Of course, there are also his limitations in the company of fresh culture.
Let's compare it with Wang Wang-he is the representative of the playwrights in the north of the Matrix Company, and he has the background of the Matrix Group from the beginning, with his back to the big tree, and everything is extremely smooth.
So, is his first work comparable to Romeo and Juliet?
Tang Ya shook her head. In her impression, Wang Wang's drama sales at the beginning can only be said to be average. There is no such thing as Rojou's momentum now.
What about the second work, how does it compare to "A Doll's House"?
Tang Ya still shook her head, the sales of Wang Wang's early works were much higher than Xie Kun's, but the two of them were mainly commercial writers, and they wrote for decades before they were recognized by the mainstream of the literary world. What is the idea and connotation of the work? It has always been criticized.
Su Wen is different, "A Doll's House" is only his second work, and it has won a double harvest of word-of-mouth and market!
"In this way, Su Wen's future is more brilliant than that of Wang Wang and Xie Kun?" Thinking of this speculation, Tang Ya herself was startled. Don't dare to fantasize anymore. Although it may not be good to say that it is a little older, the road of genius is always getting wider and wider, and some things are traceable and can be speculated.
Now it seems that Su Wen's future is limitless!
"Su Wen, I still underestimate you, it seems that ...... I'm going to work on you a little more. Tang Ya was firm in her thoughts, she was only the director of a branch, and there was still room for improvement. Su Wen is now one of her great achievements, if she can get more support from him, it will definitely not be difficult to be promoted to the head office in the future.
Not to mention Tang Ya's attempts at Su Wen, let's just say that Li Xiuying, as a colleague, got the weekly sales data of the physical book of "A Doll's House", in addition to envy, she smiled bitterly.
Their sales in one week are equal to the sales of their company's previous "Romeo and Juliet" in one month!
This is definitely not a problem with the work, then again, "Romeo and Juliet" is much more popular than "A Doll's House", and the romance theme has a wider audience and is more popular with readers.
The reason for such a huge sales gap is completely the company's strength, the gap between channels and operations, which leads to this situation.
It's really frustrating.
"If I were a writer, under similar conditions, I would definitely choose to cooperate with a company like Matrix or Fangyuan," Li Xiuying now understands Su Wen'......s choice more and more.
This is also the reason why the two giants of Matrix and Fang Yuan have always remained strong, they have taken the lead, and they have various resources to ensure the income of writers, and of course they are favored by writers.
"Fortunately, they are large companies, with a lot of high-quality resources, and they can leak some resources to meet our small companies." Li Xiuying couldn't help sighing, if it were usual, a company like Matrix Culture would definitely not offer conditions with their fresh culture company to attract Su Wen.
However, Tang Ya was full of courage, and when Su Wen had not yet made a fortune, she snatched resources, and did not hesitate to break some rules to give Su Wen, a literary newcomer, some superior conditions, so as to match the conditions offered by Fresh Culture Company and gain Su Wen's favor.
"No way!" Li Xiuying has a full sense of crisis, and she must not let it go, Su Wen is a high-quality potential stock, and now anyone with eyes can see it.
They Qingxin Culture Company was originally the first person to eat crabs, and they took the lead, and they couldn't do nothing, causing this piece of fat to be snatched away by others!
"It doesn't seem like it is possible to contact Su Wen directly, so ...... Take Fang Chengshi's route? As soon as Li Xiuying thought about it, she immediately began to contact Fang Chengshi.
Before Fang Chengshi hid from her and jumped to the Spring and Autumn Publishing House, and also pulled the copyright of Su Wen's poetry collection over, Li Xiuying was not very happy, she felt that Fang Chengshi did not respect her, and he didn't leak any news to her, didn't she treat her as an outsider to prevent it!
She is cold to Fang Chengshi these days, even if the other party calls to explain something, she is not lukewarm to deal with it, and she has been drying him for a while!
Now, for the sake of their company's future, she can only put down her body and take the initiative to contact Fang Chengshi.
Putting aside the communication between the two for the time being, the weekly sales of "A Doll's House" were announced, and the market was lively for a while. In particular, the media and readers of Dongguang Province are proud and happy from the bottom of their hearts - who made Su Wen their local and won glory for them!
Nowadays, the world is peaceful and the culture is prosperous, and in addition to economic data, the number and quality of literati are compared in various places.
The honors and achievements of the literati are also the honors and achievements of a place!
Now Su Wen represents Dongguang Province, and his achievements make the people of this province proud.
The better "A Doll's House" sells, the happier they become. The more people praised the work, the more they were excited.
Among them, one person's comment on "A Doll's House" finally stirred up waves on the lake of literature:
"When I first watched "A Doll's House", I just thought it was simple. Cover the volume and ponder, this is what I feel amazing: only when it is simple can it be moved. This is a masterpiece on women's issues, a work of high condensation of thought and art!
Through Nala's awakening and exodus, the hypocrisy and irrationality of marriage in society were profoundly exposed. Nala became a symbol and a classic of women's emancipation. Women's emancipation is now a major issue for mankind, and "A Doll's House" combines social ills to pursue a spiritual liberation by portraying Nala. This is a victory for women, a victory for humanity, and a victory for culture!
"Now I only believe, first of all, I am a human being, a human being like you - at least I want to learn to be a human being! This is Nala's manifesto, and it's a woman's manifesto, but it's also a human manifesto.
"A Doll's House shows us the dignity of the human being, the right to be a human being. Standing up to the sky is a human being! Independence is human! Working with both hands and walking with both feet is human! Only after stepping out of a doll-like family can he get rid of the status of a doll and be a real person!
"Big love for A Doll's House! Love Nala! Big love Su Wen! I think "A Doll's House" can be immortal, Nala immortal, Su Wen immortal, and literature immortal! The sky has eyes, and Su Wen, an amazing writer, was born! We are fortunate enough to be able to read A Doll's House in my lifetime! ”
As soon as these words full of emotion came out, they shook the world and shocked the literary world. This person brought Su Wen and "A Doll's House" to a supreme position!
This man's surname is forgotten by the king's name.
One of the two great contemporary Chinese playwrights, Wang Wang! (To be continued......)