Cheng Yanqiu is one of the giants filmed in "A Hundred Years of Great Masters and Peking Opera".
"100 Years of Masters and Peking Opera" was launched on July 13, 2015 at the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall. Guangming Network, People's Network, CCTV Network, Xinmin Network and others reported on the launching ceremony.
I am a person who is engaged in musical theatre, but instead of saying that acting and singing make me feel interested, I also like ordinary audiences, who like to see with my eyes and listen with my ears— to say the least, my interest in watching plays and listening to plays is much stronger than when I sing myself.
When I watch or listen to a play, I appreciate two things: one is the description of the script, and the other is the technique of the actors. The latter, in particular, I think is the final deciding point of a play's success or failure. Therefore, the gestures of the people in the play, the tone of their voices, and the expressions of joy and sorrow all attracted my deep attention. As long as the actor's skills are good and he can achieve the mission of the specific role he plays, even if the script is slightly poor, I am quite satisfied. The reason why I often walk to the flyover, the Seongnam Amusement Park, and the acrobatic field of Xidan Mall, and always return with considerable satisfaction, is precisely because of this reason.
Cheng Yanqiu youth photo
Human life is getting higher and higher day by day, and human desires are becoming more and more complicated day by day. The mere attempt to take an old form of musical drama to satisfy the desires of all audiences in society, or to supply whatever one audience demands, is not only delusional, but simply self-destructive. Therefore, those of us who are engaged in the old musical drama should wholeheartedly welcome the emerging drama form and faithfully contribute to its development according to our past experience.
These two forms coexist at the same time. Not only are the audience's various desires satisfied; but also they themselves, by contrasting with each other, suggesting each other, and completing each other, have reached the highest peak and the most ideal effect of theatrical education.
Moreover, the more multifaceted the artistic form of a society, the more it is enough to indicate the splendid cultural diversity of this society; if we blindly cling to the barriers of old dramas, we can do our best to reject the new dramas, which is actually more severe than the dramas in the old days, thinking that there are dramas, they hate not to announce the death penalty for old dramas, and their measurement is even narrower! His behavior is ridiculously stupid!
I personally consider myself an enthusiastic spectator and have an eclectic interest, so with the rise and fall of the drama movement in recent years, my footprints have been everywhere in various theaters and cinemas.
The above shows my attitude towards drama.
Cheng Yanqiu's "Suolin Capsule"
As a result of the experience of watching the play, I think that the greatest advantage of the drama is that it can use modern facts, modern language, modern thoughts and feelings to compile its script; and when performing, it is not like the old drama, every move is based on the program, only the actor imagines the realm in which the person in the play is, all the thoughts and emotions that occur in that realm, and freely shows various actions of different natures. In the process of this free performance, the genius of the actor can be played as much as possible, and the emotions of the people in the play can also be fully expressed.
This method of performance, if compared with the old drama, can be "non-procedural" purpose. People engaged in old dramas, because they are accustomed to the actions of the program, often ignore the inner expressions of the people in the play, for this kind of person, I advise him to watch the drama or movie several times, because those can help him understand: active in the program, and can abandon the program, the flower of the soul is the ultimate purpose of the art of the program!
Because we are often close, we have a sense of love, and because we have a sense of love, we cause inadequacies. It's almost a law of feelings. Mortals cannot escape its regulations for everything. I can't be an exception to dramas. The fact that drama has not yet established a solid foundation in our country is beyond reproach. As far as I know, the Chinese Travel Theater Troupe is the only professional drama group in China, and they rehearse famous plays in a grand city like Peiping, which are staged in the Concord Auditorium and in the old theaters, and the life of all their members is said to be often two meals and one meal, and sometimes they perform on stage hungry. (This spirit is indeed admirable) Which of the other beauty-loving troupes did not lose money? Although the YMCA Troupe had plans to develop the second performance with a surplus, it rehearsed Mr. Wang Wenxian's three-act play, "Seeking Perfection for The Ququ", which was staged five times in the Concordia Auditorium and Tsinghua University, and the ticket price collected could only be offset by consumption. The reason for this is that nine out of ten belong to the intellectual class and school students because of the audience of the play. They all came to watch the show consciously. As for most of the other people, they have never had any spiritual proximity to drama. If we do not try to break into the folk and make drama an art supported by the majority of the people, can there be a solid hope for the foundation of drama?
Cheng Yanqiu's visit to Europe
But until it was improved, the majority of the people still unanimously supported it. The reason for its support is not to think that the old play itself is well-organized, nor is it to find the story of the script interesting. The reason why they spend money to enter the theater is mostly to listen to the tone, watch the martial arts, and see the pie.
It is also ridiculous to say that in the past, the play of "Thief Scrolls" was not much ignored, because since the story was boring and the scene was very dull, it could not arouse the audience's interest. However, after Mr. Tan Xinpei sang several times, he actually invited the audience's appreciation, and became active in the dramas of each family, and to this day, it has become an old drama that insiders must learn!
Other uninteresting plays, and the famous actors sang red, there are really too many to list. Many people compliment the old play, calling it "pure art". To me, this statement contains two meanings: first, the script of the old drama is very rare; second, the singing, doing, and expression of the old drama have indeed become specialized techniques, and it is worth appreciating alone. Its disadvantages, needless to say, in terms of technology alone, many of the old predecessors of the old drama, the reason why they are famous, there are several who have not spent their lives on this, in exchange. Just because Mr. Tan's performance skills are good, even if "Pirate Scrolls" is no longer interesting, the audience will still fill the theater.
It can be inferred from this that the audience has no opinions; they are their only opinions except to spend money to appreciate masterpieces. Comrades engaged in drama, if they can grasp this weakness of the audience, first exercise themselves from the performance technology, and then use a good script to stage in front of them, I can guarantee that the audience's eyes are not shining for the sake of looking at the face alone.
The China Traveling Theater Troupe performed, and I was present several times. I think there are two actresses with posture expressions, both of which have some artistic meaning. The reason why the troupe has been standing in Beiping for a long time, although it is due to the great appeal of dramas such as "La Traviata", the skills of the actresses are also a reason for the popularity. When the YMCA troupe performed, I was also full of second eyes.
Later, Mr. Jin Zhongsun told me that after watching "Seeking Perfection in The Ququ", he felt that the future of China's drama was very promising; because the roles such as the principal in the play were all performed very well, and they were no longer performed like the dramas of a few years ago. It can be seen that china's professional and beauty-loving drama groups also have talented actors.
However, in this case, I cannot think that I am satisfied. Why? Because genius is only created by chance. I think that the technique of performance is not regarded as an independent learning, but until it is specially proposed for the study of drama comrades in general, the drama of our country will not be universally and soundly successful.
Some people think that drama is extremely easy to perform, as long as you read the script well, everything is easy to do. Anyone who loves drama, I don't think I can agree with it! Because in this way, what the actor can do, the audience may not be able to do. There is no technical relationship between the actor and the audience, and as a maintenance between the two, the latter is bound to be far away from the former due to contempt. Since the audience has stayed away, precisely because the drama is non-programmed, its performance technology has no specific scope, and precisely because it is freely expressed, it will fall into various mistakes if it is not careful.
If the actor of the drama cannot convey an emotion with every glance of his eyeballs; if every indication of the fingers represents a meaning; every step of the feet implies a law; every turn of the waist forms a beautiful posture; then such an actor cannot be regarded as the ideal actor. Because he lacked basic training. In Europe and the United States, every artist on the stage or screen must undergo a considerable period of training, after the director deems qualified, and then assign his role to participate in rehearsals.
This reminds me of the situation in which the actors of the old play were tortured by the teachers every day when they sat in the department, and compared with them, it was only a difference in method. The technical training of the old drama is based on various martial arts. Even if you play "Fenhe Bay", when you enter the kiln door, if you do not have basic training, the figure you make is not good. The technical training of the drama also begins with soft gymnastics, and the expression of the face and body parts is secondary. When we watch foreign movies, we don't often see it: the male actor rolls his eyes. Can the whites of the eyes be completely exposed; the actress's two elbows and one clamp can rotate the waist and limbs more flexibly than the spiral? If you are not well trained, can you have such an effect?
Art is technology: maybe I'm arbitrary.
August 15, 1935
(Cheng Yanqiu Drama Anthology)
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