Chinanews.com, Beijing, April 25 (Reporter Ying Ni) The legendary epic drama "One Thousand Years A Dream-Emperor Wu of Han" was staged at Shanghai Majestic Theater for two consecutive nights on April 23 and 24, officially opening the play The curtain of performances across the country.
The 150-minute performance brought a spiritual cleansing and visual feast to the audience. They entered the dream of Han Wudi Liu Che and felt the war-torn and prosperous Western Han Dynasty.
The play runs through the important nodes of his life through the dreams of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It takes the empress dowager Dou, Dong Zhongshu, Zhang Qian, Chen Ajiao, Wei Zifu and other characters closely related to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as the main line. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and those princes, ministers, wives and concubines who had died in the past met in a dream, and the grievances and grievances of those souls during their lifetimes took the opportunity to show.
These moments of history outline a curve of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the peak of his life, and also depict the multiple colors of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Sometimes it is gray and negative, sometimes black is decisive, sometimes it is bright red, and sometimes it is dark blue. Melancholy.
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The screenwriter Meng Bing did not reproduce historical facts in the usual way of writing historical dramas. Instead, he wrote that an elderly emperor kept marveling, waking up, and confessing, until he finally gave himself a "sin has been imprisoned" to calm himself. The soul and comfort the dead.
Under the premise of respecting historical facts, we reshaped an ordinary person of flesh and blood, with normal spirit and secular emotions, and repositioned a unique Liu Che who is loyal to historical facts and belongs exclusively to the playwright.
The mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is located in the new city of Qin and Han Dynasties. The gift of historical and cultural resources makes the new city of Qin and Han Dynasties focus on creating masterpieces with the spirit of Qin and Han Dynasties and the blood of Qin and Han Dynasties.
The legendary epic drama "The Great Emperor of Han Wu", by telling the legendary life of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, increases people's understanding and understanding of Qin and Han culture and the new city of Qin and Han, and further arouses audiences' thinking about history, a sense of identity and yearning for Chinese civilization.
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The unique writing perspective of the playwright gave the director and the main creative team a broad space for second-degree creation, and it also refreshed the audience in terms of performance methods and stage presentation.
The stage design is conceived based on the row upon row of Wudi Liu Che’s dreams. It collects representative image modeling elements of the Western Han Dynasty, and uses dark and red to form the main color of the overall space. At the same time, it breaks the creative direction of "traditional stage space". The main device of the space-the "throne" rises or falls or tilts, during the period, it uses a flowing double-layer structure to form a close interaction with the surrounding frame. Both sides of the space are equipped with styling elements such as bamboo slips and skeletons. In order to echo the changing state of the relationship between related characters in each "dream" scene of the whole play.
In the lower part of the back area of the stage space, several retractable sliding platforms are constructed. In the scene change, the stacked shape of the dense skeletons is slowly launched on the sliding platform, which will be contrasted with the material shape of the main device-the "throne". The coexistence of multiple spaces allows The change of scene and scene has more metaphorical expressions, enhancing the audience's imagination.
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There are more than 100 sets of costumes in the whole play. Each set consists of 6 pieces from the inside to the outside, from headwear to footwear, and the most complicated one is even nine or ten pieces.
Exaggerated and freehand techniques are used to express the imprisonment and shackles of the imperial power that are both true and imaginary, and the grand and rich colors of the Chinese clothes express the desolation of human nature under the feudal imperial power and the desire of Han Wudi for the id.
Unique historical vision and dramatic attitude, supplemented by visual presentations such as exquisite and grand stage design, magnificent multimedia background, luxurious and atmospheric clothing matching, etc., the main creators strive to use a unique aesthetic perspective on the stage in all details of the play I wrote a heart-stirring epic and used a scene-oriented narrative with a strong sense of ritual to bring the audience a super-burning drama experience.
After the Shanghai performance, "The Great Emperor of Han Dynasty" will go to Beijing Tianqiao Art Center to perform three consecutive performances, and then start a national tour.
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