China News Service, Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Gao Kai) The reporter learned from the National Centre for the Performing Arts on the 11th that the adaptation of Liang Xiaosheng's Mao Dun Literature Award's drama "The World" will be staged here, marking the start of the 2022 National Centre for the Performing Arts drama season. .

  The drama "The World" is directed by drama director Yang Jiayin, and performed by Miao Chi, Li Xiaomeng, etc., with three hours of full and moving performances, condensing the essence of the original work with millions of characters, restoring the real record of the people of "light-character films", and showing every aspect of the development of the times. Tribute to an ordinary and great ordinary man.

  "People are just living an idea." In 2017, Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World", which took 8 years to write, was published. It described the different fates of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family in the 1.15 million-word masterpiece. View room.

"The World" depicts the struggles and perseverance, frustration and high spirits of ordinary people's families, thus depicting a group portrait of Chinese people spanning fifty years.

In 2019, the three-volume novel "The World" won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award with the highest votes. This long volume of civilian life, which is isomorphic with the times, touched millions of readers with its epic tension.

  As Liang Xiaosheng's first literary adaptation of the drama "The World", since its creation in 2021, it has assembled a powerful domestic production team and performance lineup.

In terms of the script, screenwriter Yuan Bin constructed it in a multi-scattering, multi-space-time and multi-paragraph method, which formed a greater dramatic conflict within the limited performance time.

Yang Jiayin, winner of the National Drama Culture Gold Award, is the director of the play. He admitted that the time of the play is relatively fixed, and it is very difficult to adapt this volume of "The World" to expand infinite space within a limited time.

In the early stage of the creation, the main creators had several rounds of discussions on how to present this masterpiece in three hours.

Yang Jiayin said: "Fictions can be described in a straightforward manner, but drama works need to be simple, refined and even 'rude', and the stories and characters must be put in front of the audience quickly. The characters in the sub-plots should be simplified again, and the characters and characters should be simplified again. The interweaving is more diverse.”

The drama "The World" will kick off 2022 National Centre for the Performing Arts Drama Season Photo by Tomita

  On the stage of the drama "The World", multiple performance spaces are juxtaposed at the same time, and the flexible use of lighting and dance beauty realizes the folding of time and space, which not only makes the plot transition smoother, but also ensures the clarity of the main line of the plot.

As a witness of the times in the play, stage design Zhang Kangmei designed nearly dozens of scenes to present the span of half a century, and at the same time made comprehensive use of stage art technology to complete the visuals of "Light Character Film" and "Taiping Hutong". render.

After a year of touring and polishing, this round of drama "The World" has also been "upgraded" and adjusted, striving to use the unique expression of the stage language to make the interweaving of characters more relevant and diverse.

  The story line of the drama "The World" extends from the 1970s to the present, which embeds major events and changes that have occurred in Chinese society in the past 50 years.

The plot is based on the life trajectory of the children of the Zhou family. For half a century, the fate of the Zhou family has been ups and downs.

They both love and hate "Light Character Films", just like their bitter and happy love, no matter how the social context and fate trajectory change, the Zhou family has always struggled as ordinary Chinese people with full enthusiasm and kindness.

The drama "The World" will kick off 2022 National Centre for the Performing Arts Drama Season Photo by Tomita

  In this round of performances, Miao Chi, an actor from the Beijing People's Art Theater, will play Zhou Bingkun in the play.

He has performed works such as "Antigone" and "Hamlet" on the stage of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, and he is no stranger to many drama fans and audiences.

It is worth mentioning that he played Tang Xiangyang, one of the "Six Little Gentlemen" in the drama version of "The World".

From TV dramas to drama stages, from Tang Xiangyang to Zhou Bingkun, Miao Chi's delicate and solid acting skills also make Zhou Bingkun's stage image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In his opinion, although Zhou Bingkun is an unremarkable little person among ordinary people, he has his own firm beliefs.

The actor Li Xiaomeng, who plays Zheng Juan in the play, is also an "old friend" of the NCPA. She had unforgettable performances in the NCPA's original play "Style Lei" and the production of Shakespeare's play "The Tempest".

In the drama "The World", Li Xiaomeng will fully interpret the life of Zheng Juan, a woman who forbearance, on the stage.

In addition, national first-class actors Sun Xing and Li Zhen, also from Beijing People's Art Theater, will also affectionately perform Zhou's father and Zhou's mother in the play.

  It is reported that the drama will continue to be staged until August 14.

From August 18th to 21st, "A Dream", a trilogy of stage trilogy produced by Dao Culture and starring Chen Peisi, will be staged in succession, continuing to present the 2022 National Centre for the Performing Arts drama season.

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