Chinanews.com, Xiamen, November 11 (Yang Fushan, Liu Hui) A vast long song of filial piety, benevolence and righteousness sounded in Xiamen on the evening of the 23nd: The musical "Nankong" created by the Propaganda Department of the Quzhou Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and Zhejiang Performing Arts Group (Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater Co., Ltd.) was staged in the theater of Xiamen Minnan Grand Theater from the evening of the 22st to the 21nd.
Stills from the musical "Nankong". Courtesy of Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater
The musical "Southern Confucius" focuses on the special historical period of the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, telling the audience the story of the descendants of Confucius, who are not familiar to many people, who left their hometowns and moved south for the sake of their family and country, and rebuilt the order of "rites" in the south of the Yangtze River.
What is the "light of the heart"? How could the ideas of Confucius become a model for the people of that era? This is exactly what the protagonist Kong Su, the fifty-third grandson of Confucius, is looking for on the spiritual path of the whole play.
Xia Zhenkai, who plays Kong Zhu, vividly reproduces Kong Zhu's literati temperament, the world's style, and the image of the rise and fall of the cultural context and the responsibility of the husband.
Fang Shujian and Chen Zhen played Zhenjin - the first crown prince of the Yuan Dynasty, Ming Jiaxin played Kong Liu - the daughter of Yan Shenggong Kong Zhu, Zhang Xiaomin and Huang Shuang played Xiuniang - the wife of Yan Shenggong Kong Zhu, and Zhang Dianyu played Kong Duanyou - the eldest grandson of Confucius in the 48th generation, also had excellent performances.
Stills from the musical "Nankong". Courtesy of Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater
In addition to the excellent leading actors, the high-quality and meticulous creation of the main creative team of the excellent musical "Nankong" also made the audience enter the play and their hearts.
Screenwriters Liu Chun and Li Jingrong in the musical "Nankong" - with Confucius's 53rd grandson Kong Zhu as the main story line, tells the story of his choice in his ideals and hometown in order to realize the "ceremony" in his heart.
The whole play is divided into two scenes, the first half is "crossing", which tells the story of Kong Zhu who took root in Jiangnan, is over half a hundred years old but still cherishes the ideal of helping the country and the world, and in the face of the changes of the times, he makes a choice in the dialogue with the ancestor Kong Duanyou across time and space;
In the second half, the "ceremony" tells the story of Kong Zhu, who re-walked the road to the south for the protection of the world and the family temple in his heart, and returned to Quzhou Yansheng Hongdao after giving up the title of "Yansheng Gong" to the younger brother of Qufu.
The chief director, Zhong Hao, allows the audience to appreciate all the expressions on the stage - they are all new national styles, all spaces are scenes that can be moved, they are all times that can be cut, and the time and space transformation on the stage are used to describe the continuation of different eras, different auras, and different textures, spanning hundreds of years of history, and a Chinese-style blank expression came into being.
Composer Lu Liang allows the audience to appreciate his classical instruments in the whole musical, which are constantly intersecting and blending - the new national style music color and the strong Mongolian style form a unique musical vocabulary of the musical.
Visual director Ren Dongsheng let the audience appreciate that he had made a game of space - the stage curtain opened, a book called "Nankong" slowly opened, the texture of rice paper, the fragrance of text and ink, he used the Western musical form to inject the soul of the East, the visual presentation, but everywhere is the expression of words.
The audience watched the story of "Kong Zhu Rangjue" with the heart of Yan Shenggong, igniting the inner emotions and the light of the soul.
The transfer of the title embodies the idea of valuing harmony, and also embodies the high style and brightness of Kong Zhu, and embodies the spirit of true Confucianism,—— the gift of the family allows the people's livelihood to be rich and continued, the gift of people makes the world kind to every behavior, and the gift of the heart allows people to face their true self.
Think, say, do - this is the most important value of the protagonist, and this is also the noble character of the musical "Nankong" in the new era. (ENDS)