"I have done something I liked in the past six months, fulfilling a dream I have had for 20 years. The national tour of "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" kicked off, the first stop at the Guangzhou Women's Theater Festival, see you at the theater..." Actor Zhang Xinyi recently said in a Several messages posted on social platforms seem to revolve around one topic, and that is the performance of the drama "I am not Pan Jinlian".

As the only female starring in the play, she devoted more than half a year of hard work and energy to the play.

More importantly, there is also the "drama dream" of an actor who has been in the performance industry for nearly 20 years. When standing in the center of the drama stage, facing thousands of live audiences, he will be happy and angry. It became Zhang Xinyi's "dream fulfillment" time.

　　"I Am Not Pan Jinlian" has been presented to readers and audiences in different forms time and time again, making people wonder how the story of the rural woman "Li Xuelian" can be written in contemporary times.

　　In the gap between the national tour of the play "I'm not Pan Jinlian", the cover reporter had an exclusive dialogue with Zhang Xinyi, the star of the play.

When it comes to the bits and pieces in the play, she has her lines at her fingertips, and she is full of praise for the director Ding Yiteng and the screenwriter Chaplin. It is not difficult to hear the seriousness and dedication to the work.

Break the "Li Xuelian" image"

A tragedy from start to finish"

　　"From the feedback from the performance site, we should completely shatter the image of 'Li Xuelian' in the audience's mind. After watching it, everyone felt that this was not the 'Li Xuelian' they imagined."

　　As long as the audience knows a little about the work "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", this is the first work by Liu Zhenyun, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, with a female protagonist.

The novel focuses on the complaints of rural woman Li Xuelian over the past 20 years, and focuses on the survival dilemma of women's family affection, traditional morality and power struggle. With humorous and ironic literary language, it profoundly reflects the absurd reality, metaphors of the times and cultural connotations. It was made into a movie and moved to the big screen.

　　If it is just "old wine in new bottles", it will undoubtedly face doubts from readers and audiences.

The first step to change, naturally, begins with text mining.

　　"When I first got the script, I told the screenwriter, director and producer that if you want to dig deeper into the character from a female perspective, it's better to dig deeper from a mother's perspective, so the story has a certain place to go. Change." Who is Li Xuelian?

What has she been through?

Why did she file for a fake divorce?

After being betrayed by her ex-husband, why did she want to sue... In Zhang Xinyi's constant questioning, Li Xuelian's storyline emerged with a fuller and more complete context.

The screenwriter dug up the "past life" of Li Xuelian and her husband Qin Yuhe, and continued to write the emotional story of her and her son, so that Li Xuelian's "origin" has a clear footprint and imprint.

　　Of course, not only the innovation and in-depth exploration of the text, but also the work of director Ding Yiteng, who is known as "the leader of the new generation of young theater directors", the stage presentation of the play "I am not Pan Jinlian" is bold and avant-garde.

For example, in this drama, you can see the "mixture" of art forms such as opera, face-changing, acrobatics, RAP, etc., and feel the collision and exchange of art from the East and the West, as well as the connection and blending of traditional and contemporary time and space, but there is no trace of it. A sense of incongruity.

　　"When the show officially started, the audience under the stage laughed for 3 minutes, laughed for 5 minutes, and applauded and applauded in one bar. But when we put our feelings into earnest, the audience cried louder than me. I think we do Here comes the so-called 'a tragedy that makes people laugh from beginning to end'." Zhang Xinyi said.

Inquiring about the fate of "Pan Jinlian"

"Unlocking the shackles imposed on women"

　　In the original work, the "tragic" life of the protagonist Li Xuelian began with the reputation of "Pan Jinlian".

She was betrayed after her "fake divorce" with her husband, and was slandered as "Pan Jinlian".

So, she used her life to correct a mistake of people, just to wash away the grievances known as Pan Jinlian.

Subsequent remakes of the film work continued this narrative thread.

However, when it came to the drama "I'm not Pan Jinlian", they began to think about the dimension of a woman like "Pan Jinlian" in history, whether she was also like Li Xuelian, a woman who was "trampled", a woman who was "trampled" in the long river of history stigmatized" women.

So, when "Pan Jinlian" dressed in Peking Opera came across time and space on the stage of the drama and looked at each other with "Li Xuelian" played by Zhang Xinyi, the sentence "I was once Li Xuelian, and the world called us 'Pan Jinlian'" , so that the whole story's reflection on the fate of women has a deeper expression.

　　"This is our core. All stories are for expression. We hope that there will never be a woman called Pan Jinlian again in this world." Zhang Xinyi said, the name "Pan Jinlian" seems to be added to a certain The "shackles" on some women, and when this "shackles" are shown naked and cruel in the play, the audience can feel the shock even more.

"When Li Xuelian said 'I hope there will never be another woman called Pan Jinlian in this world', all the audience stood up and applauded."

　　In fact, such a bold and innovative story adaptation and a more diverse core expression once made the main creative team uneasy.

In previous media reports, Zhang Xinyi's anxiety continued until the synthesis rehearsal of Beijing Daxing Theater, and even the praise of the original author Liu Zhenyun did not completely relax her.

　　In the end, when this story was presented on the stage of the Guangzhou premiere, Zhang Xinyi's two-hour shouting and roaring, the audience's full of laughter, and the standing ovation when Li Xuelian shouted, all confirmed this. The subversive success of the work.

As Liu Zhenyun commented, "the weather is extraordinary and the talent is compelling".

Adhere to "be yourself"

"Show the attitude and style of women"

　　For Zhang Xinyi, taking over such a large-scale drama creation, abandoning all the work, and spending more than half a year to concentrate on research and rehearsal, this experience is more like a "dream trip", or a love of drama art for many years. The "answer sheet" handed over by himself.

　　"I think women are very great. They are biologically beautiful, because the reproduction of human beings depends on women." Zhang Xinyi said that in recent years, she has felt that women's role in society has become more and more important. It is because society has higher requirements for women, which causes them to be under great pressure.

"So I hope that women can be themselves, and I hope that when women have to do something, they will do it without hesitation and show their posture and style."

　　After the premiere of the play "I'm not Pan Jinlian", Zhang Xinyi quietly asked director Ding Yiteng: "Are we successful?" Ding Yiteng said: "The premiere is like this, can't it be considered successful? There will be more in the future. Okay!"

Cover reporter Li Yuxin