The large-scale drama “Heroes and Daughters” created by the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center tells the story of the brothers and sisters of Shanghai volunteer soldiers, Wang Cheng and Wang Fang who went to the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea. reunion and reunion.Photo by reporter Ye Chenliang
Reporter Wang Xiaoli
“Singing heroes in the wind and smoke, listening to the green hills around…” The familiar melody of “Heroes Hymn” was played again last night at the Shanghai Drama Arts Center Art Theatre. After the first round of performances in October this year received good responses from all walks of life, the large-scale drama “Heroes and Daughters” created and organized by the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center began its second round of performances yesterday. After combining the professional opinions of all parties, the main creator digs and polishes the work further, perfects and improves the stage presentation effect, and finds this magnificent story with the audience in the theater in a more complete form .
The large-scale drama “Heroes and Daughters” is based on Ba Jin’s novel “Reunion” and the film of the same name shot by Changchun Film Studio. The story of Wang Fang’s reunion and reunion with her adoptive father Wang Fubiao and Wang Wenqing’s biological father on the battlefield. Under the circumstances of tight time and heavy tasks, Shanghai Drama Art Center carefully prepared and promoted the creation and performance of the play “Heroes and Daughters”, striving to create a classic that promotes the great spirit of resisting US aggression States and aid Korea. , embodies the characteristics of the heroic city of Shanghai, and can stand the test of Red theme Repertoire history.
“This round of performance has enhanced the authenticity and sense of stage presence.” Yu Rongjun, the screenwriter of “Heroes and Daughters”, told reporters that in order to make the plot closer to the prescribed situation on the battlefield, he made minor adjustments to some scenes, such as recreating the The line of “signing a life-and-death agreement” in one of the highlights makes it more reasonable and warmer, and adjusts the time when Wang Fang sympathizes with the sentry only from standing guard during the changing of the guard. .. At the same time, Yu Rongjun is also the role of the group portrait in the drama. The biographies of the characters have been rewritten to make the story clearer.
“In the play “Heroes and Daughters”, I saw the longing and persecution of the youth of that era. The purity of their emotions and their desires, and the simplicity of the spiritual world, have a kind of healing for the soul for us today.” Literary critic Li Shoucheng said. Wu Xiaoming, deputy head of the leading group of Shanghai’s major literary and artistic creations, believes that the theme of heroism is the humanistic feeling that literary and art workers have always adhered to. The play allowed to people saw the vitality of art and touched audiences of all ages. After watching “Heroes and Daughters”, some people were surprised by Wang Cheng’s loudest voice of Chinese soldiers – “For victory, fire on me”, some people were moved by people’s justice common, and some people were moved by the power of literature during the war Greatly inspired, some people remember their ancestors and pay tribute to heroes…
Mengjie, the actor of “Wang Fang” in the drama, cannot forget the special audience welcomed at the end of the first round of “Heroes and Women” – 15 veterans of the Chinese People’s Volunteers with an average age of 87.8 years old, “By look at the old people in the audience, when the curtain calls the actors can’t hold back their tears.” Decades apart, only real heroic deeds and an immortal heroic spirit can span time and space, allowing generations of people to have this unforgettable viewing experience in the same space.
Next year, the large-scale drama “Heroes and Daughters” plans to go to Beijing and other places for a national tour.
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责编：张晓荣 ]
