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    "Ruan Lingyu" script reading meeting unveils the 70th anniversary of Beijing Renyi

    Recently, a series of activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Beijing Academy of Arts and Sciences have been launched one after another. On June 5, the script reading "Ruan Lingyu" was first staged, and the audience was gathered at the Human Arts Experimental Theater through live online live broadcast. In 1994, the drama "Ruan Lingyu" premiered at the Capital Theater, directed by Lin Zhaohua and Ren Ming, and actor Xu Fan as the famous actress Ruan Lingyu.
    The script reading was directed by Beijing Renyi young actor Han Qing, Lu Lu, Zhang Xinming, Li Jinfeng, Guo Wei, Wu Yuchenning, Guo Yijun, Kong Wei, Wang Junqi, Xie Tian, Yang Yi, Chen Hongxu, Zhou Jiayu, Zeng Yongdai, Actors such as Yuan Wei co-star. "Ruan Lingyu" is a repertoire reserved by Beijing people and arts, created by screenwriter Jin Yun. The author reproduces Ruan Lingyu's delicate heart and drama life in a freehand narrative and poetic language. The scene of the script reading session

    The scene of the script reading session, the scene of this article, photo by Li Chunguang

    The famous actor of "Iron Plum Blossom"
    As an indispensable part of Chinese film history, Ruan Lingyu is widely known for her successful performance in representative works such as "Goddess" and "New Woman", and is considered to have reached the highest level of performing arts during the Chinese silent film period. However, such an outstanding woman finally committed suicide because she could not bear the pressure of slandering public opinion, and it became a sensational headline in Shanghai for a while, causing everyone to sigh.
    Ruan Lingyu's death is not only an "entertainment lace", but also a social problem. She is a star that no one knows about, but she is also a plaything to set off herself in the eyes of wealthy businessmen and dignitaries; she is a Chinese film performance art. A benchmark, but also an actor who cannot have a commensurate social status. After Ruan Lingyu's death, Lu Xun wrote "On "People's Words Are Fearsome", and the young Cao Yu also vowed to use a pen to write the ruthlessness and filth of the times with one pen, so he has the classic masterpiece "Sunrise".
    In 1994, inspired by the movie "Ruan Lingyu", Liu Jinyun wrote the drama "Ruan Lingyu", which brought the legendary actress's life to the stage, and played the role of Ruan Lingyu by Xu Fan, successfully creating a self-proclaimed "iron plum blossom". The image of a generation of famous actors. In 2013, nineteen years later, the play was staged again. Through the interpretation of multiple aspects of Ruan Lingyu's short life at the age of 25, "Ruan Lingyu" endows the fall of an individual with a meaning that spans the ages, and has become an indispensable classic on the Beijing art stage. At the script reading meeting, young actor Lu Lu (left) played Ruan Lingyu.

    At the script reading meeting, young actor Lu Lu (left) played Ruan Lingyu.

    Leaving "Sunrise", Lu Lu interprets "Ruan Lingyu"
    When the author Liu Jinyun wrote "Ruan Lingyu", he emphasized that he was writing the soul of the character. This is also the goal of the young actors' script reading this time - to get close to the character and shape the soul of the character. As a script reading, how to use voice to shape characters is the core of this performance.
    Director Han Qing likened the language of the play to "like a stone thrown down and swaying ripples". The actors' lines should be put down, neither too lifelike nor like recitations, but to find their own. Ups and downs and rhythm. What the audience hears in the voice is not only a legendary story, but also the sincere and sincere inner world of the characters. Let the audience in front of the screen breathe with Ruan Lingyu on the stage and feel the joy and sorrow in her life. "Our young generation has enthusiasm and sincerity, and we show our style on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the institute." Han Qing introduced.
    Lu Lu, a young actor who was born in 1997, officially joined the Beijing People's Art Performance Team in 2019. Last year, she played the "socialite" Chen Bailu in the new typesetting drama "Sunrise". As a "Big Tsing Yi" actor trained by Renyi, Lu Lu once again used his voice to interpret a generation of famous actors at this reading meeting. At the end of the film, Ruan Lingyu had a large inner monologue before committing suicide: "The court will be held tomorrow, and tomorrow the strong of the strong and the weak of the weak will be tried in absentia. People listen to me with your kindness and conscience. , In this place called the human world, I have lived for 25 years, and I have checked my actions, and I have no regrets. I should be the plaintiff, the plaintiff..." She was played to the point where she made me cry.
    It is reported that although the script reading and rehearsal were once turned online due to changes in epidemic prevention and control, the young actors are still exerting their creativity and artistic pursuit. Preparing and collecting a large amount of data in the early stage, and constantly discussing and running in during rehearsal, each actor gave his own interpretation to the role. How to master the sense of proportion in language and how to communicate at critical moments, these details are accurately expressed in the way of reading aloud. At the same time, in order to highlight the theme of the academy celebration, the directors and actors also set up a ceremonial link. Before the performance begins, the script is placed in front of the stage, and the actor picks up the script from the table. After the end, everyone tidies the script to the actors. Put them all on the table, set the frame, and then walk on the stage. In this way, we pay tribute to the drama, the stage, and the human arts. Stills of the 1994 drama "Ruan Lingyu"

    Stills of the 1994 drama "Ruan Lingyu"

    "We are all people of the same fate", not only reading, but also cooperating with stage scheduling
    "This reading is the version of the 1994 theater performance, and some of our young actors are younger than the script. In view of the form of the script reading itself, we need to remove some content that must be presented through performances in the arrangement. Focus on the lines." Han Qing said that, in her opinion, the structure of the script of "Ruan Lingyu" is like a nesting doll, "The connection of each plot is very fluid, in order to enrich the live broadcast, so it is necessary to Add some staging."
    "We let everyone 'move' on the stage, not only reading, but also cooperating with the stage scheduling." Although the actors held the script, they reproduced the stage form of the work's dialogue and alternating time and space on the stage. At the same time, the director also designed the actor's dual identities—as a performer when he goes on stage, and sits in the auditorium when he ends, watching as an audience member, which highlights that everyone in the play is a passer-by and a spectator in Ruan Lingyu's life. theme.
    When it comes to how to view the drama "Ruan Lingyu", which has been in existence for nearly 30 years, Han Qing, who is "acting and directing" in Beijing Renyi, gave his personal feelings, "We are all actors, and we are in harmony with each other in terms of our professional identities. Ruan Lingyu is the same, standing on the stage, we share joys and sorrows with her, we share the same fate." In her opinion, Ruan Lingyu is an outstanding star in the history of Chinese film, indulging in people's fearful and fragrant jade die. "Nowadays, it may not only be a public figure, but every ordinary person of us may also suffer from cyber violence. The character of Ruan Lingyu, including the play itself, is of transcendent significance."
    During the 70th anniversary of the hospital, Beijing Renyi will carry out more live broadcast activities one after another, waiting for more audiences to enter the live broadcast room to celebrate Renyi's birthday together.

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