Looking at the back of the president, Shen Danqing sat in his office and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

She is the performance director invited by the president with a personal relationship, and the Begonia Drama Club respects her from top to bottom, but has no decisive right to speak.

Shen Danqing's original plan was to use this time to stuff Xu Zhen into the troupe to precipitate.

On the one hand, let him be familiar with the performance atmosphere of the stage play, and on the other hand, let him feel the unique texture brought by the tempered performance up close.

On the stage of "I Am an Acting School", Shen Danqing saw with his own eyes the efficiency of Xu Zhen's rehearsals.

This kid enters the play quickly and memorizes lines faster.

The script is in his hands, and it basically meets the standard of a performance on stage in a few minutes.

The efficiency is breathtaking.

This ability to efficiently digest scripts is certainly gifted and amazing, but if it goes on like this, it is easy to develop a kind of inertia in him.

- Inertia that does not seek to be understood.

Shen Danqing guessed that Xu Zhen's efficiency would not be low when filming TV series, and he was by no means the kind of difficult person who acted many times in one shot.

This kind of actor is of course a blessing for the director, saving time, energy, and money.

However, if an actor wants to continue to elevate himself and keep moving up, he can't keep filming "fast scenes", but should calm down and shoot a "slow scene" from time to time.

This is like reading with intensive reading and extensive reading, and performance should also have intensive performance and general performance.

Read the book a hundred times, and its meaning will be revealed.

For the same play, it is necessary to hone dozens or hundreds of times on the stage, keep improving, and constantly adjust the inappropriate places, so as to change from quantitative to qualitative and cause the sublimation of acting skills.

This kind of sublimation cannot be taught, and you must rely on yourself to have an epiphany.

This is what Xu Zhen lacks the most at this stage, and it is also the right way to lead him to continuous progress.

But it's a pity that the president of the Begonia Drama Club has encountered several bad things in a row in the past few years, and in the past two years, this kind of film and television actors with the nature of playing tickets are not very welcome.

Shen Danqing can understand this.

However, the original intention of the establishment of the Begonia Drama Club is to provide a stage for young people to practice.

If I have to say it, Xu Zhen is still a student of Chinese opera, and he is the most "rooted" ticket player in the Begonia Drama Club.

Shen Danqing didn't plan to continue talking nonsense with the president, and when the foreign guests left in a while, she planned to take Xu Zhen directly to talk to the president in person.

Whether this young man is here to brush up on qualifications or to study things seriously, you can understand it with your own eyes.

……

After a while, Shen Danqing left the president's room and returned to the office where he had agreed to meet Xu Zhen.

Xu Zhen saw her coming, and hurriedly got up to greet her.

"Xiao Xu came so early, nothing happened this afternoon?"

Shen Danqing walked up to Xu Zhen and smiled at him: "Hey, the plan can't catch up with the changes, I originally wanted you to rehearse with the new drama here, but the foreign guests who were scheduled to come over tomorrow will arrive this afternoon, and the president is a little busy now, let's not make trouble for others now." ”

"Let's talk about it a little later, after the foreign guests are gone."

As she spoke, she turned her head to look around, locked her eyes on the middle-aged man who had just received Xu Zhen, and said to Xu Zhen: "Come, introduce to you." ”

"This is the deputy leader of the actor group, Hu Zhiyong, who also went out of our Chinese opera, your name is Senior Brother Hu."

Xu Zhen greeted Hu Zhiyong with a respectful smile.

Shen Danqing said to Hu Zhiyong: "Zhiyong, you can arrange something for Xiao Xu to do, don't let him be idle." ”

"I'm going to go to the stage to watch the actors rehearse in a while, and I won't be able to come here until a little later, so I'll leave it to you first."

After that, she briefly explained a few words, and then left Xu Zhen here again, and went to the stage first.

……

After Shen Danqing left, Hu Zhiyong led Xu Zhen out of the office and took him to get a brief familiarity with the environment of the troupe.

Hu Zhiyong said that he is the deputy leader of the actor group, but in fact, his daily work is mainly to receive all the young masters in the troupe, and he is familiar with the work of "taking care of children".

As the two walked, Hu Zhiyong looked at the young man beside him.

Xu Zhen......

A young actor who has just debuted is not very popular, but his acting career is very stable.

In the past two years, he has starred in several TV series with a good reputation, and has performed in the Spring Festival Gala, and even people like himself who don't watch TV series can call his name.

Among the many "masters" received by Hu Zhiyong, he is a well-known one.

But let's be honest.

With Hu Zhiyong's understanding of his own president, it may be quite difficult for Xu Zhen to come to the troupe to play a role.

The president looked at Mr. Shen's face, at most, he agreed to him to participate in the rehearsal, and then gave him a fictitious B corner, and there was a high probability that he would not agree to perform on stage.

The more famous and good the image, the less the president will be to see him.

Because in recent years, his own troupe has been pitted by this kind of actor several times.

On the one hand, these people enjoy the high quality of their status as "drama actors", and on the other hand, they ignore the arrangement of the troupe.

The press release flew up, the pictures were all posed, not to mention interfering with the daily rehearsal tasks, and touching old porcelain artists everywhere.

Acting skills and artistic virtues are useless, and negative news is poured on the troupe.

If you dare to say him, it is to suppress newcomers, and people will mobilize their tens of millions of fans to scold you.

Competent actors are the same, and incompetent actors are varied.

How many times has the president been so angry with this gang that he wants to vomit blood.

However, these things have nothing to do with me.

As a qualified "nanny", Hu Zhiyong just took Xu Zhen around the troupe with a very kind attitude, and then arranged a little work for him to sort out the script according to Shen Danqing's instructions.

As for how he will be arranged in the future, it is not his own business.

……

At this time, Xu Zhen himself was completely ignorant of these situations.

Hearing that Shen Danqing wanted him to participate in the rehearsals in the troupe, he was like a child seeing the new toys in the window, and he was looking forward to it.

"It's just by repertoire and time, these documents are organized, right?"

Xu Zhen pointed to an iron filing cabinet placed in the corner of the corridor and asked.

Hu Zhiyong nodded and said, "Yes, our troupe often shoots new books, and sometimes the script often needs to be adjusted, and we pile up some discarded intermediate drafts here." ”

"Some books have been changed several times, and the cover is marked with a date."

He pulled out a box of documents from the bottom of the filing cabinet, made a demonstration and sorted out a copy for him, and said: "For example, this "Jing Ke Assassination of Qin", there are a total of six versions of waste manuscripts, you can put all six versions of the script into the same box in order from front to back, and then write the name on the side of the file box. ”

"If any staples come loose, you can re-order them."

As he spoke, he handed over the file box, stapler, rag and other items to Xu Zhen.

When Hu Zhiyong saw that he was wearing a clean off-white baseball shirt, he turned over a navy blue overalls for him to put on, so that he would not get his clothes dirty.

Xu Zhen nodded, took the thing, rolled up his sleeves and dried.

It's a job he's all too familiar with.

In the past, when he was in Ganzhou, every time after the rainy season, he would take the scriptures from his temple to the courtyard to dry, clean the scripture room, and then put the scriptures back.

He loves to do this kind of tidying thing.

Because he was not in a hurry in time, when he saw the topic he was interested in, Xu Zhen also had the time to flip through it to satisfy his curiosity about the drama script.

There are few pedestrians in the corners of the stairway.

I don't know how long it took me to get a man wearing the same style of work clothes as him and cleaning it all the way with a broom.

The cleaner was very tall, and the ordinary broom handle was too short for him, so he had to bend very low to sweep the floor, which looked a little funny.

Xu Zhen saw him sweeping to his feet, so he picked up a stack of scripts and walked to the other side, getting out of the way.

The cleaner glanced at the stacks of scripts that Xu Zhen had just sorted out, and said leisurely: ""Dust" and "Dust Settled" are the same play, but the name has been changed in the middle. ”

"The first three editions were called "Dust Settled", and from the fourth edition onwards it was changed to "Dust"."

"The plot has been adjusted greatly, and the heroine has changed, but the core content has not changed, you should put these two stacks together."

Hearing this, Xu Zhen couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at this person in some surprise.

- This is a staff member with artistic pursuits!

Is the atmosphere of the troupe so good?

Even the staff can know the evolution of the repertoire?

He opened his mouth, just about to thank the other party for the reminder, but when he looked closely, he suddenly found that this "cleaner" looked a little familiar.

"Meng Yifan?"

Xu Zhen took off the mask on his face and exclaimed in amazement.

The other party was also stunned when he heard this, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Xu Zhen, and his face turned green.

it!

How is he?

Grandma, a bear, why are you running to our theater?!

Meng Yifan thought that he could take advantage of the sweeping effort to pretend to be forced and adjust the boring life of being punished as a coolie, but he didn't expect that the person standing opposite was actually Xu Zhen......

It's embarrassing.

The two looked at each other and were speechless for a while.

After a long time, Meng Yifan finally reluctantly twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "Why are you here?" ”

As he spoke, he held the broom and tried to straighten his waist and said, "What, you also want to come to our theater to do chores?" ”

In and out of the words, he inexplicably regarded "miscellaneous" as a very high-level career.

Xu Zhen didn't know how Mr. Shen Danqing communicated with the president, so after thinking about it, he had to say vaguely: "I don't know, I just came, wait for the arrangement." ”

Of course, Meng Yifan knew that his troupe often had newcomers come to play tickets, so he naturally classified Xu Zhen as this kind of person.

He looked at the filing cabinet in the corner, pouted, and said, "I just came to arrange for you to sort out the documents, and it seems that Brother Yong is not very optimistic about you." ”

"If he thinks you can go on stage, he will arrange for you to bring water to the actors, and by the way, you will be familiar;"

"If I don't think you're optimistic, I'll let you sort out the papers."

Xu Zhen smiled indifferently and did not comment.

When Meng Yifan saw him, he remembered his own bad things, didn't say anything more, swept the garbage under his feet and left silently.

However, not long after sweeping out, he walked back with a broom, and said menacingly: "Xu Zhen, there is a question I have always wanted to ask you!" ”

Xu Zhen turned around, put down the document in his hand, and said, "What's the problem?" ”

Meng Yifan seemed to have made up a lot of determination, and said: "I later compared the original version of "Ten Thousand Lights" with the part you performed in the table director's building, which is exactly the same. ”

"How the hell did you do that? Teacher Shen taught him by hand? ”

Xu Zhen was a little reluctant to deal with him, turned around and continued to sort out the documents, and said in a flat tone: "It's just acting as it is, just watch it a few more times, why don't you need to guide by hand." ”

Meng Yifan was choked half to death by these words.

This!

Obviously, I don't have to work hard behind my back, but I want to say that it looks like a light breeze and easy to get at my fingertips, why can't I get used to it!

Meng Yifan said disdainfully: "You can get it." ”

"You really have this ability, then I'll play a part, and you can give me a try!"

How could Xu Zhen be afraid of this kind of provocation, he turned his head again, looked at Meng Yifan, and said without timidity: "Okay, you come, which part to play?" ”

Meng Yifan thought for a while, then grabbed the broom in his hand casually, and made a sword drawing movement with the broom handle, saying: "To be, or not to be, that is the question." ”

"Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, English Original, Will I memorize it?"

Xu Zhen nodded and smiled, "Of course." ”

……

Just when the two were about to improvise a play, on the corridor on the second floor, the president of the Begonia Drama Club was leading more than a dozen foreign friends to visit nearby.

"The annex building here is where we store our props and materials," the president said with a smile, pointing to the rooms in front of him, "The scripts of the plays that were in the front row and the props used at the time are stored here. ”

"The materials of the youth version of "Hamlet" and the Chinese version of "The Quiet Don" are also here."

"If you're interested, I can take a few of them."

As he finished speaking, the interpreter relayed the contents to the guests.

Several people glanced at each other, all of them lacking interest.

The troupe to which these people work, like the Begonia Theatre Society, is a participant in the Baltic Theatre Festival.

However, among the many participating theaters, the Haitang Drama Club obviously belongs to a relatively low-level group, and has never won any high-value awards for many years.

This time, they came with the mentality of inspecting the Chinese market, and they didn't think that the Haitang Opera Club really had any value worth exchanging.

The leader was just about to say that he would not read it, but before he could speak, he suddenly heard a loud and generous statement from downstairs:

“…… The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles......"

The attention of the group was suddenly drawn to it.

This line is so classic that no matter what nationality or English is present, they can hear it at once:

This is Shakespeare's Hamlet.

It is also the most classic "Hamlet's Monologues".

Memorizing this fragment can be said to be the basic skill of all theater practitioners.

If someone performs this clip in the theater, sometimes even the audience recites it along with it.

However, it is one thing to be able to memorize, and it is another thing to memorize well.

Some people chant like chewing wax, and some people are so excited that they don't pay attention to it.

And the line that just came from downstairs, the level of emotion and rhythm is quite high.

It's almost enough to be a leading actor in a mid-range theatre company and perform at the Baltic Theatre Festival.

The guests who had come from afar were immediately intrigued, and they walked to the edge of the corridor and looked down.

But the next second.

When they saw what kind of person was reciting this wonderful monologue, they couldn't help but look at each other.

- I saw that standing downstairs was a young man in a navy blue overalls and carrying a broom as a sword.

There were piles of garbage at his feet, his gloves were dirty, and his face was dirty, and he looked like he had really done a lot of work.

It's a ...... Janitor?

How can a cleaner pronounce Hamlet's monologue so well??

But that's not all.

After a while, the worker finished his line and handed the broom to a "worker" beside him, who also recited the "Hamlet's monologue" with a broom as a sword.

The level is not inferior to the person just now.

On the corridor on the second floor, a group of foreign friends were stunned by these two people's performance.

- Is the artistic atmosphere in China so strong?

Even a cleaner can have such a high level of theatrical attainment?

At this moment, a thought arose in everyone's hearts at the same time:

Is the industry seriously underestimating the strength of the Begonia Drama Society? ?