China News Service, Beijing, April 14 (Reporter Ying Ni) After three years of preparations, the famous screenwriter Meng Bing's new work "One Thousand Years A Dream-Emperor Wu of Han" will premiere at Shanghai Majestic Theater from April 23 to 24. Performed, and then landed in Beijing Tianqiao Art Center from June 11th to 13th.

  The "Qin Emperor and Han Wu" may be the two emperors with the highest merits and achievements in history. Qin Shihuang has more controversies.

There are also many film and television dramas and storytelling dramas written by Han Wudi Liu Che, so Han Wudi is no stranger to the audience.

The play written by Meng Bing does not retell these stories.

On the stage of the drama, the audience will see a novel "Han Wu Dadi" that is different from the previous stories, and this work also breaks away from the clichés of "returning the case".

  In Meng Bing’s view, when he created "A Dream of a Thousand Years-Emperor Han Wu", he did not want to deny Emperor Wu’s great achievements. He just returned Emperor Wu’s old age to normal people’s ordinary emotions, describing when he remembered those who were killed by himself. When she lost her wronged soul, she felt a little guilty and frightened.

After consulting a large amount of information, through several fragments of sleepwalking, Meng Bing allowed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to meet in dreams with those princes, wives and concubines who had died in the past, and the grievances and grievances of those souls during their lifetime could be revealed.

These moments of history sketched out a curve of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the peak of his life, and also depicted the colorful life of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: sometimes gray negative, sometimes black decisiveness, sometimes bright red fierce, sometimes dark blue hesitation... …

From left to right are the makeup photos of Wei Zifu, Liu Che, and Chen Ajiao.

Photo courtesy of the crew

  For a long time, there have been two creative directions for historical dramas. One is to tell historical stories in flat and straightforward and stacked historical materials. At the same time, there are many different angles of storytelling, which are called "returning scenes."

The other direction is to fall into another vicious circle in addition to the simple expression of historical stories, that is, to insinuate reality.

However, "A Dream of a Thousand Years—The Great Emperor of Han Wu" did not create the so-called "taking history as a mirror" and "borrowing the past to illustrate the present". These are not the original intentions of the playwright Meng Bing. Constantly waking up, constantly repenting, until the end gave himself a "sin has been edict" to calm his soul, but also to explain to the ancestors and ancestors.

This mentality seems to be different from his mind, ambition and strategy before his lifetime, but it tears open a gap in the human nature, so as to observe a hidden corner of his heart.

It also shows the creator’s continuous reflection on his mentality: “Many emperors in history are extremely afraid of death, why are they afraid of death? It is nothing more than greed for the glory and wealth of life, and fear of entanglement after death. If human life can have it. The opportunity to re-choose, there may be many things we will deal with in different ways. This kind of regret and regret is the perspective and mentality of re-examining history today."

  At the beginning and the end, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a person living in reality. In the middle part, he invited people to do things, transforming into a "soul" to talk to the wrong soul, and examining himself in a man-made "dream".

At this time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed his attitude towards these characters. Not only did he tell the truth that has happened in history, but he also allowed him to repent of his previous actions, and even allowed him to immediately correct the past at this moment. Fault, to rehabilitate the souls who were killed by mistake by him.

In the final stage of his life, the emperor reverted to a normal person, with a normal spirit and ordinary emotions.

The changes in the character's psychology and personality, as well as the versatility of human nature are vividly expressed.

  Similarly, in this drama, what is about to bring some freshness is the presentation of "A Thousand Years A Dream-Emperor Wu of Han". When the actors read the lines, they are both ancient and today, both poetic and living. , Will present a kind of virtual and real space for the audience and bring more thoughts.

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