On July 23, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center performed a performance of the Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Choir's 2022 season "Living in Love!" ", opened the prelude to the series of re-performance activities of "Yiyou Caixia, Let Love Live Flowers". Next, Oriental Citizens Concert, Ode to Summer Joy - Double Piano and Timpani Performing "Bei Jiu", Gina Alice's Musical Fantasy World, Disney Officially Licensed "Frozen" Movie Symphony Concert, "Ice Fire" A series of performances such as Fantasia "An Tianxu's Piano Solo Concert and Huang Qishan·Qiwang Thirty 2022 Tour Concert have also been billed one after another. Among them, the theatrical version of Keigo Higashino's "Worry Relief Grocery Store" will be staged at the Opera Hall of Shanghai Oriental Art Center from August 19th to 21st. This is also the first drama performance after the restart of Dongyi's performance.

The poster of the play "Relieving the Trouble Grocery Store".

"Relief Grocery Store" is one of Keigo Higashino's representative works, and the story revolves around a magical shop called Nanya Grocery Store. Shota, Atsushi, and Yukihira accidentally bumped into the grocery store on the way to leave after stealing, and connected the present and the time 30 years ago in a letter. Although it is not a mystery novel, its storyline is not inferior at all. There is no death, no murderer, only ordinary people who work hard to live. They are redeemed here with their daily life confusion and leave happily. Their stories are like microcosms of ordinary life, allowing people to see their own shadows.

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This novel by Keigo Higashino has been adapted by different art forms many times, and has been adapted into movies in Japan and China. In 2017, drama director Liu Fangqi also tried to adapt "Saving the Worry Grocery Store" into a Chinese version of the drama, which was also the first time this novel appeared on the Chinese drama stage. This version of the play "Resolving Worry Grocery Store" takes the "secret" written by Keigo Higashino onto the stage with the dramatic technique of traveling through time and space, and tells the story in various artistic forms such as music, dance and dialogue. The plot is more than 90% restored to the original work. From the design of the characters to the performances of the actors, all efforts are made to reproduce the characters in the book. "All actors received the guidance of relevant professionals during the rehearsal process, and conveyed the tranquil atmosphere of the town described in the book to the audience as authentically as possible," said director Liu Fangqi. In terms of stage art, the performance relies on new stage installations and imaging methods, such as using a turntable to solve the space transformation, using gear projection, the LED screen above the stage, and the "moon" in the depth of the scene to solve the time transformation, and a number of small props are used to promote narrative. The Nanya Grocery Store is also an entrance to a time-space tunnel, connecting the present and the magical place of thirty years ago. At the same time, almost all the music and sound effects in the play come from the soundtrack of native Japanese live instruments. Each character has a different theme of music, and each character story is expressed with a different combination of musical instruments, including acoustic guitar, shamisen, mouth organ, harmonica, drum and other instruments. The sound texture of these instruments matches the age of the whole story, giving the audience a "soft hit".
Keigo Higashino said to "Anxiety Grocery Store" - "I like people who are confused, and I like people who are troubled." Director Liu Fangqi also said, "For the confusion, dissatisfaction, longing and hard work in life, the true story emotions that are close to life are what impresses me the most. So all the adaptation methods and presentation methods I use in this drama are actually I hope the audience can have more vision for their own life after experiencing this 2 hours and 20 minutes in the theater."