Chao News client reporter Li Wei editor Chen Tangtang.
This month, Tang Yibo's Wu Opera modern drama "Yiwu Gaohua" was selected for the 18th China Theatre Festival. The Chinese Theatre Festival is a grand event of theatre art in China. He was very excited, "This is the first time in the 70-year history of our Yiwu Wu Opera Troupe. ”
In March this year, Tang Yibo also won the 6th "Zhejiang Drama Award Golden Gui Performance Award" with his Wu opera "Hitting the Golden Brick", although this play is transplanted from Peking Opera, it is also a traditional drama.
Hit the Gold Bricks
Hit the Gold Bricks", perform "zombie jump".
Hit the Gold Bricks", perform "zombie jump".
New playwrights, traditional dramas, both hands are grasped, both hands are hard, this is the basic skill of an "old drama bone" - Tang Yibo, a first-class actor of Yiwu Wu Opera Protection and Inheritance Center, has played more than 40 roles on the stage since his art.
How is the old drama bone made?
Tang Yibo, who was born in the late 70s, worked hard in the drama school, practicing in the morning, in the evening, and on weekends. "It's very hard, it's tiring, it's boring, it's this gritting of teeth that makes me persevere. ”
After graduation, he entered a private theater troupe to Xi, and performed a lot, no matter what role, Xiaosheng, Laosheng, Wusheng, including Xiaohua Face, where there is a lack of top. That year, Tang Yibo didn't go home for 10 months, and he was all out playing, and it was also that year that he grew up rapidly.
Maybe it's just stepping on the stage, a little newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, there is nothing that can't be tried, even if the excavation of the characters is not necessarily very good, but it is also an accumulation. Tang Yibo, who does not set limits for himself, with his innate "Yiwu spirit", broke through on his first stage.
This year, there is a Wu opera backstage short ** who went to the countryside and became popular on the Internet, where an actor with full makeup was grabbing makeup, and the sweat on his forehead was clear - that's right, this person is Tang Yibo.
It was summer at the time, and he played Zhang Dingbian in "Trouble in Jiujiang", and this role had to wear a water coat and a fat jacket made of pure cotton to prevent sweat from seeping out and destroying the costume, and finally put on a python robe or a big back.
Jiujiang".
"Trouble in Jiujiang" as Zhang Dingbian.
In fact, we act like this every year. Tang Yibo thinks it's very ordinary, Wu Opera has a very solid mass foundation in the land of Bawu, and for several months of the year, he is sending operas to the countryside, running from village to village, and in the early years, everyone was still covered and slept in the village ancestral hall at night.
In the year with the most performances, Tang Yibo remembered that in just one New Year, he performed more than 160 performances, and spent two or three months running the village.
Such a high-intensity performance is actually a rare workout. At least two games a day, which is equivalent to practicing your voice and physical strength. And after every performance, he said, "I think about it, because the roles on stage are different, and even if the roles are the same, the performances in each show are not exactly the same." So, did my role in today's performance move the audience?Tang Yibo feels that opera is not a film and television drama, it is not a place to rest after filming, it must be performed and maintained every day, every show is from the beginning, and the better performance must be the next one.
Traditional Wu operas that have been tempered and stylized should be reflected, and the same is true for modern dramas that are more life-oriented.
Yiwu Gaohua" participated in the Chinese Theatre Festival "Yiwu Gaohua" is an original modern play, from the perspective of Xie Gaohua, secretary of the Yiwu Municipal and County Party Committee, from the first generation of Yiwu small commodity market in the early days of reform and opening up, to the current sixth generation. This play will be rehearsed in 2020, "In the past two years, I have changed several drafts, and Director Yang Xiaoqing has polished me again and again." Tang Yibo said that what supports the protagonist Secretary Xie Gaohua is not afraid of hardship, does not change his original intention, and always keeps in mind the belief of seeking happiness for the people, "My most important place lies in his emotional processing, to understand, to get close, to find one subtlety after another, and to express it in a just right degree." ”
Tang Yibo finally "lived" the good secretary in the minds of Yiwu people.
This is a new modern drama that is deeply rooted in this land. For the people of Yiwu, this drama tells their story;And young Yiwu people also like it, watch a play to understand the story of their parents, and the play is not boring at all, the stage is gorgeous, the story is cordial, "Yiwu Gaohua" is really hard to find."
After finishing the performance of the drama festival and going to the countryside every year, Tang Yibo assigned himself a very important "homework" to complete.
This year, he was selected into the "1111" talent plan of Zhejiang stage art and became one of the 22 stage elites, and his mentor was Li Shujian, a master of Henan Opera.
Linjiang Meeting" A few years ago, Tang Yibo watched Mr. Li Shujian's "Cheng Ying Saves the Orphan" at the Hangzhou Theater, and was sucked in at once. He found that "Henan opera and Wu opera are still very close." ”
I want to learn from the teacher his classic repertoire and absorb some of the essence of Henan opera into Wu opera. Tang Yibo said with a smile, "This is different from "Hitting the Gold Bricks", this time it is the master of Henan Opera who personally ordered you. ”
Back many years ago, Tang Yibo, as a young actor who had not yet won any awards, "picked" the Peking Opera "Hitting the Golden Brick" at that time, and it became a classic on the stage of Wu Opera now. Compared with "Zhegui", Tang Yibo feels that the greater significance of this play for him is that "this is the play that makes me grow the fastest".
Tang Yibo occasionally saw this play by Mr. Yu Kuizhi on TV, and after watching it, he was all over Yiwu looking for CD materials, and finally bought it in Xinhua Bookstore in Hangzhou.
Like a crazy demon, he couldn't afford to hire a teacher, so he taught himself, copied the lyrics sentence by sentence according to the video, asked the teacher Hu Qizhi in the group to arrange the music, and practiced Xi movements one by one with the video.
After more than 4 months, the self-written and directed Wu Opera "Hitting the Golden Bricks" was released, combining the singing voice of Wu Opera, and absorbing the performance essence of Peking Opera, and at the same time giving full play to the unique styles of Wu Opera singing, reading, doing, beating, turning, and falling, "Hitting the Golden Brick" won the gold medal of the Wu Opera Festival that year, and has since become a classic Wu Opera repertoire.
Tang Yibo has been following the courses arranged by the talent plan and observing and learning Xi for a period of time. His biggest impression is, "The current audience is really different from the older generation, they have a high aesthetic level and thinking ability. ”
He also experienced this on the stage of Wu Opera that he was familiar with - "Teacher Tang, I don't feel as if your emotions in this place have not changed......Tang Yibo said that the direct feedback from the audience is particularly valuable, and it is also one of the motivations for him to motivate himself.
Traditional drama is not just for the older generation, it can also keep pace with the times and keep up with the times, the key is whether you have a performance they want to see. ”
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