Over the years, the stage, actors, and audience of "A Dream Like a Dream" have been constantly updated and iterated, including the eternal Yang Hua and Xu Qing's version of Gu Xianglan, as well as the "No. 5 Patient" who has been changing, from Hu Ge to Xiao Zhan to Zhang Han, and the emotions expressed by the audience are also flowing. The Yanghua version of the drama "Dream Like a Dream" tells a stage story full of fantasy. The drama depicts the complexity and contradictions of human nature with a unique perspective and delicate emotions, and also reveals the helplessness and struggle, exploration and longing in life.
I was fortunate to be invited to Hangzhou Linping Grand Theatre**, a seven-and-a-half-hour stage performance, and the audience followed the actors into a dream. The story revolves around the fate of the protagonist, revealing the protagonist's deep emotional entanglements and human struggles through a series of seemingly accidental events. It can be said that watching this drama is like traveling through a huge and long journey, from the end of the protagonist's life to the 20th century, from Asia to Europe, from life to death, from pain to relief. Layer after layer, a story contains a story, intersecting in time and space, the beginning of the story is told by the mouth of "Patient Five", and the end of the story is also the end of two generations.
The choreography and storytelling complement each other and are immersive**
If the theme and tone of the film are profound and thought-provoking, it makes people constantly reflect on the meaning and value of life in the process. The first thing that attracts the audience is the unique wrap-around stage performance, especially the audience sitting in the lotus pond, which is completely immersive, and the chairs can follow the actors' rotation, presenting a multi-dimensional space of immediacy. This will give the audience a sense of immersion in a dream, especially when the actor passes through the middle of the lotus pond, the audience is suddenly transported to that time era, and the stories of multiple time and space are connected, and it is difficult to dream without dreaming.
I remember a particularly impressive clip, about the Earl Train**, the deafening roar, lights and shadows, and the deafening ** crashing sound, the blessing of sound effects makes the picture and the stage more vivid and realistic, creating an immersive feeling for the audience, as if they are in it.
The soundtrack on the stage is easy for the audience to ignore, and the match with the picture is just right, which adds a lot of color to the stage and creates a different emotional atmosphere for the audience. The audience seems to be listening to the transformation of **, and looking at the changes of the stage, they can distinguish the emotional changes of the characters and the transformation of the scene, so that the audience can understand the storyline more deeply.
There are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand spectatorsThere were a thousand fragments of dreams
What impressed the audience the most was the performance of the actors and the portrayal of the characters. Zhang Han and Xu Qing's outstanding performance and partnership allowed the audience to see the unusual feeling of Patient No. 5 and Gu Xianglan, their emotional expression and character shaping are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Zhang Liang's Earl performance also gives people a refreshing feeling, his character image is distinct, and the emotional level is rich. The different scenes and plots show the multifaceted nature of humanity and the characters.
Xu Qing's Gu Xianglan has been the same existence for decades, and Xu Qing has already labeled Gu Xianglan with her unique label, with a smile, every action and every look is unique. Whether it is the top prostitute who is tied up in Tianxiang Pavilion, or the countess who releases her nature in the West, they are actually in a cage, but they go from one cage to another.
Gu Xianglan and Xu Qing, these two completely different temperaments are intertwined, forming a unique charm. Xu Qing's temperament has both an innocent side and a charming style, and she brings people a strong visual impact. Gu Xianglan, on the other hand, has endless fantasies about fate, but the cruelty of reality hits her mercilessly, and the interweaving of these two emotions makes her character image more three-dimensional and rich. This emotional conflict reaches its peak after she discovers that she is still the plaything in the earl's heart, and that anger and determination will make the understanding of her deeper and more unique. Even on the stage, there are multiple actors playing "Gu Xianglan", but each actor will present a different "Gu Xianglan" because of his own unique understanding and interpretation.
Patient No. 5 is an important clue in the script, and the conflict between him and other characters is not violent except for Gu Xianglan. His character setting is more like a gentle narrative force that brings the audience into the world of the story. The difference between his and Gu Xianglan's roles is like two different rivers, although they flow separately, they form a different scenery at the confluence. For the status requirements of actors, and even for Zhang Han, this is a new challenge. Because this drama role is completely different from his previous role as a boss who has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but his performance did not disappoint or even surprise the audience, the biggest difficulty of Patient No. 5 is that the creation of this character needs to go deep into the core of the story and reveal the inner world of the character.
Many people will feel sorry for the impermanence of the fate of Patient No. 5, and the various regrets expressed with him, his wife and Jiang Hong, which are the kind with a touch of sadness, but isn't this also the impermanence of fate? In life, everyone encounters various desires and desires to get certain people or things.
In this layered story, we may get confused and have trouble understanding the gist of the whole story. In everyone's story, we can find our own part of the shadow, but in the end, we often find that we can really get very little. What we can't get often becomes the most difficult part of our hearts to let go. Just like Wang Debao's obsession with Gu Xianglan, so is Patient No. 5's obsession with his wife, and so is the earl's possession of Gu Xianglan.
In and out of dreams, in and out of plays, when we perceive the fragility and impermanence of life, we may be able to better understand the suffering and hope of life. If you are confused and confused, you must not miss "Dream Like a Dream", I believe you will gain a lot after watching it.