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Even people who are not familiar with drama should be familiar with "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" and "Dream Like a Dream".
Jin Shijie, Li Liqun, Brigitte Lin, Huang Lei, Yuan Quan, He Jiong, Xu Qing, Tan Zhuo, and Hu Ge were all actors in these two plays.
Hu Ge plays the youth patient No. 5 in "A Dream Like A Dream", and Xu Qing plays Gu Xianglan C.
Photo courtesy of Yanghua Drama
Their screenwriter and director are the same person-Lai Shengchuan.
From the first stage play in 1984 to the present, Lai Shengchuan has maintained a stable creative output.
Recently, "Yaoyao Dongba" starring Ni Ni and "Treasure Island and One Village" and "Millennium Night: Let's Talk Crosstalk" have been staged in various places.
But his biggest attempt was to record the reality show "Drama New Life".
Can variety shows make drama out of the circle?
As a director, what does he think of the actors' acting and the audience?
Chinanews interviewed Lai Shengchuan.
"Drama New Life" stills
This is a way to quickly approach young people
Lai Shengchuan once shared three reasons for participating in "Drama New Life" on Weibo. One is that Huang Lei promised that he "can be a real person without any false feelings" in this reality show; the other is that he can go to Wuzhen to rehabilitate. Tour and plan this year's Wuzhen Drama Festival.
There is another important reason, he hopes to make people in the theater industry shine.
In recent years, variety shows have brought a lot of niche cultures, and rap, band, street dance, and musicals have come out of the circle.
"Drama New Life" is the first time to focus on drama. With limited funds, a group of dramatists cooperated in rehearsal for a certain period of time to make money and run a troupe.
In the show, Lai Shengchuan’s title is the director of the Art Committee, and his duty is to give professional advice and permission to perform after the 8 dramatists arrange a play.
"Yaoyao Dongba" poster
In the pan-entertainment ecosystem, this is a relatively serious and difficult attempt.
Lai Shengchuan also admitted that, indeed, in this era, there are many things that everyone can see.
As he wrote in "Yaoyaodonglu", with the Internet, everything becomes "equal." Great things and violent things can be seen at the same time, and the elegant and the vulgar can be obtained in the same way.
"But this is another way to get close to young people quickly." Lai Shengchuan said that he saw that the show "New Life in Drama" might help the whole drama ecology. He felt that this motivation was good, so he joined.
"Drama New Life" poster
"A person's good acting skills are a kind of derogatory meaning, which means his acting is fake"
In the show, the 8 dramatists are Liu Xiaoye, Xiu Rui, Wu Bi, Zhao Xiaosu, Liu Xiaoyi, Ding Yiteng, Liu Tianqi, and Wu Haochen.
Unlike many variety shows that are all celebrities, these theater people are not well-known.
In the introduction of the program, it is also prominently written "'Anonymous' Drama People Live and Produce Reality Show".
This is the embarrassment that many niche cultures encounter when they first enter a variety show.
Although from the drama industry, many of them are outstanding.
Ding Yiteng won the "New Director of the Year" at the Next Drama Awards, and Liu Tianqi's "Chicken and Rabbit in a Cage" won the Best Drama Award in the Youth Competition of Wuzhen Drama Festival...
"Drama New Life" stills
Some people also classified "Drama New Life" into the acting variety show, thinking that 8 dramatists should compete on the same stage and show "burst-like" acting skills.
At this point, Lai Shengchuan couldn't help but argue.
He said that in fact, he has always had a lot of opinions on the term "acting."
"I always think that in our industry, the whole world is the same. To say that a person's acting skills are good is a derogatory meaning, and it means that his acting is fake. If it is used technique, the result is of course fake. Performance is natural, and naturally blends into the role. Express the character naturally. Is there any skill in it? Of course there is, but it is not the so-called skill, which can be furious or roar at any time. Of course, if the character really needs it, it should be."
"Drama New Life" stills
Lai Shengchuan also stated that the purpose of "Drama New Life" is not to let the contestants compete or fight each other, but to see how the eight people cooperate to make some good works with different creative concepts and performance training systems.
He hopes that this show will really let the audience, let the audience who don't know drama, approach the real situation of the drama industry.
"Drama New Life" also invited many stars such as Huang Lei, He Jiong, Qiao Shan, Mei Ting, etc., but the show was not satisfied with using them to attract traffic, but by showing the birth of the drama and the talents of the dramatists. Audience.
Currently, "Drama New Life" has a score of 9.3 on Douban, which is another word-of-mouth variety show by director Yan Min after "Extreme Challenge" and "Rap New Generation".
Douban screenshot
If you want to follow the taste of the audience, you will never catch it
The first drama co-produced by the eight dramatists is "The Story of the Chicken Farm", which tells the story of a chicken in the chicken farm who is unwilling to lay eggs and wants to see the sea.
A children's drama touched many adults, and some netizens commented that they hoped to become the Xiaolan who bravely stepped out of the chicken shed to chase her dream.
"Drama New Life" stills
During the acceptance of the program, Lai Shengchuan said something impressive. He said: "Don't be afraid of depth. Children have depth."
For all creators, the attitude towards the audience is always an inevitable topic.
In the more market-oriented film and television field, a large number of creators use big data to speculate on the preferences of the current audience, but in many cases, the audience does not buy it.
How does Lai Shengchuan deal with the relationship with the audience?
There is a special feature about "Dream Like a Dream" directed by him. The theater is in a surrounding form. There is a lotus pond in the center of the stage. The audience can sit in the middle and watch the performance.
Lai Shengchuan said that the inspiration for the lotus pond came from the believers he saw in India.
"Everyone goes clockwise around the pagoda and around the sacred object. In this play, I thought, isn't the sacred object the audience? Let's go around the audience. So the lotus pond was born. I respect the views of every audience very much, but I do not rely on such views."
"Drama New Life" stills
Lai Shengchuan had a conversation with drama master Tadashi Suzuki in Wuzhen. An audience member asked a similar question, and Tadashi Suzuki said something. He said, "You want to show it to the audience, don't you?" "Yes." "Then you are a business man." Lai Shengchuan felt that this was right.
"As a creator, do you want to do a play that you think the audience will want to watch? Or do you think about how the audience will watch it. My own answer is the latter. I don't care about the audience because I am very happy to have a good team. , If I have an idea, what kind of play I want to do, they are evaluating whether or not anyone will watch this work. Share a truth I think, if you want to follow the taste of the audience, you will never be able to follow it . That’s a big trap. You think you know what the audience wants to see, but it’s not."
"Drama New Life" stills
Drama will always be a minority
At the beginning of "A New Life in Drama", Huang Lei said that he hoped that drama would become a crack in the high wall of life, allowing light to shine through.
"I hope everyone lost, missed, regretted in life, and the drama can be returned to you."
A passage written by Lai Shengchuan on the outer wall of "Shanghai Theater" has also been recognized by many theater fans-"The absolute charm of theater lies in its on-site nature. Its romance is that it is the epitome of the shortness and impermanence of life." What I don’t admit is that there are still many people standing outside the theater’s gates.
Is the drama niche?
Lai Shengchuan bluntly said that drama will always be a minority.
"But many people think that the influence of the'niche' is greater than mass entertainment, because mass entertainment is fast food and is quickly forgotten, and even the purpose is to be forgotten. It is reduced to a tool to pass the time, while drama is Record a socially important story."
"Drama New Life" stills
For example, Lai Shengchuan shared that in human activities, the epidemic has always been closely related to theater, and "The King of Oedipus" reflects the plague in Athens at that time.
A few years ago, they had been to Yushu, hoping to do a play for the earthquake victims, relatives, family and friends who died.
Later, it became the prototype of a performance by Lai Shengchuan, which was "It Was Once" starring Hao Lei and Zhang Jie.
He also said that more than 30 years ago, feeling the decline of cross talk art, the performance workshop launched a new form of "cross talk drama"...
In Lai Shengchuan's view, for drama to be out of the circle, more people must be more interested in serious topics and in life itself, and be more willing to discuss many important life-related issues.
"I don't expect real drama to become popular culture, but through the show "Drama New Life", I hope that more people will have a wonderful experience of stage drama in their lives." (End)