Our reporter Wang Run

　　"My family lives in Beijing City, inside the second ring road, on the central axis of Gulou Street, and a bend to the east..." Last night, the moving singing of Beijing tune and Beijing rhyme accompanied by bursts of sanxian sounds, from the Beijing Renyi Capital Theater. out.

The Beijing-style drama "Guijie" produced by Beijing Performing Arts Group was staged here as an invitational performance for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, showing the audience the fireworks life and social changes in the Beijing food landmark.

　　The stage has become a "catering street"

　　Speaking of "Guijie", Beijingers are well-known.

This one-kilometer-long street starts from the west section of the Dongzhimen Overpass of the Second Ring Road in the east and reaches the east end of Jiaodaokou East Street in the west. There are more than 100 restaurants. After more than 30 years of development, it has become the most famous restaurant in Beijing. street.

This legendary street in history has entered the vision of Beijing Performing Arts Group's art production in 2020, and has been adapted into a drama and put on the stage.

　　The Beijing-style drama "Guijie" is written by Wang Zhili, a famous Beijing-style playwright. It brings together director Zhong Hao, screenwriter Yang Shuo, composer Dai Jinsong, stage and lighting designer Ren Dongsheng, costume styling designer Jaina, Wen Ge and other domestic first-line creators.

Famous actor and Plum Blossom Award winner Hou Yansong starred in the leading role, and many powerful actors starred.

In order to present a more real life on the stage, the crew went to Guijie for many times during the creation and rehearsal.

The actors also put on chef clothes and walked into the back kitchen of the Guijie Restaurant, where they cut meat, stir-fried vegetables, and stewed crayfish to experience the real life and working conditions of the characters.

　　The lives of three generations show three decades of urban change

　　The story of old Beijing on the stage unfolds slowly from the ordinary fireworks life of the three generations of the Li family and the Jin family living in Guijie.

　　Li Zecheng, who grew up in the south, returned to Beijing with a "special" mission.

Grandpa Li Yidao's restaurant "Jiu Ying Zun" in Guijie is facing an unprecedented crisis.

Due to operational difficulties, this once brilliant "First Guijie Store" is now deserted.

But although Li Yidao's son, Li Guohua, has done a great job of catering in the south, he has not returned to his hometown for many years because of the conflict with his father.

In the more than 30 years of changes in this street, everyone's life has changed...

　　From the perspective of the protagonist Li Yidao, "Guijie" cleverly connects several groups of characters, such as "father and son", "the way of family" and "neighborhood". "Yingzun" went from ups and downs to ups and downs and from down to prosperous. At the same time, it restored the different appearances of Guijie for more than 30 years on the stage.

　　The three time points flashed back in the play also have unique significance for Beijing and Guijie: 1988 was the tenth year of reform and opening up, when the first restaurant in Guijie opened; in the 1998 World Cup, Beijing had its first food stall in Guijie. , the supper culture began to rise; Beijing held the Olympic Games in 2008, which marked the year that Beijing became an international metropolis.

Viewers can find their own memories of Beijing in these pictures that resonate with the times.

　　Beijing-flavored culture presents a new expression on the stage

　　In terms of character creation, the play presents the character traits that are unique to Beijingers. It is sincere and moving and has great affinity, making the characters vivid and down-to-earth, which has aroused the resonance of many old and new Beijingers.

　　In terms of stage design, the play abandons the traditional realistic stage design, gives the stage space a more varied functionality and an aesthetic design that is more in line with modern aesthetics, fully amplifies Beijing elements and symbols of the times under the background of different eras, and through attentive The details are arranged in a freehand manner to present every grass and tree in Beijing's secular life, so that the audience can feel the unique temperament and charm of the city of Beijing.

　　In terms of music creation, it closely follows the theme of the repertoire, and especially uses the traditional northern musical instrument with a strong "Beijing flavor" - sanxian, accompanied by several singing sections with Beijing accent, leading the audience to immersely experience the vicissitudes of Beijing for 30 years. The changes are narrated in the melody to express the contradictions and entanglements and simple emotions between father and son and neighbors in different eras.

　　The Beijing-flavored drama "Guijie" can be said to dig into the Beijing-flavored culture from different angles to illustrate the relationship between people and the city, showing the audience the spiritual outlook and urban character of the city from Guijie to Beijing. It is a Beijing-flavored drama. He also interprets and expresses the new Beijing-style drama works from a new perspective.