Lai Shengchuan directed Huang Shengyi and Zhao Xiaosu to present the drama “Let Me Hold Your Hand…” staged in Hangzhou_Hangzhou Net

Photography: Wang Kai

From November 18 to 19, “Let Me Hold Your Hand…” directed by Shengchuan Lai and starring Huang Shengyi and Zhao Xiaosu was staged at the Hangzhou Grand Theater.

The play uses more than 800 love letters between Chekhov and his wife Olga over six years as creative material, allowing the audience to enter the world of letters between Chekhov and Olga from each letter.

In 2014, Lai Shengchuan translated “Let Me Hold Your Hand…” into Chinese and performed it on stage. This year, the theater has resumed production of this play.

In “Director’s Life Notes”, Lai Shengchuan wrote: “”Let Me Hold Your Hand…” has so many lines that I, as a director, can hardly bear to marvel! Each of them plays seven roles. There are are four different characters, including Zhao Xiaosu’s Chekhov himself and Huang Shengyi’s Oujia. I am very happy in the rehearsal and production process. I feel that I can use language, letters, literature, drama, visual choreography, music, etc. to construct such a character. A theatrical poem is very satisfying, and I hope the public will like it.”

“Let Me Hold Your Hand…” is Huang Shengyi’s first drama in his acting career. Huang Shengyi has played multiple roles in the play, vividly portraying Chekhov’s multiple female characters with different personalities. Since December of last year, she has been training basic theater skills for several months of training in voice, stage, action and appearance. But the large number of lines still made her say it was a big challenge, “Oujia is an actress, and I still have a certain resonance with me. The amount of lines in this play is also very large, and the challenges in terms of the lines are still quite large, including me and Between Xiaosu, you and I play together, and you still play different roles. The range of roles is still very wide. From all walks of life, age groups of different personalities, I’m still working hard to check every role I hope to present the best state to the public.

Photography: Wang Kai

Playwright Zhao Xiaosu, who is known to most people for “Drama New Life”, this time played the lead role in the drama “Let Me Hold Your Hand…”. He has profound stage skills and rich stage experience. He Appeared in the musical drama “Jack the Ripper”, “Don Quixote”, “Murder in the Hanging Garden”, “Amber” and other works.

to existZhao XiaosuIt seems that Lai Shengchuan is the director closest to Chekhov himself. “I am also willing to follow him to play every role well. Although the director is very kind, he has his own unique requirements. Sometimes one of his requirements still makes us think a lot, including the dramatic tension of some actors and so on. The director Some of the requirements are actually very useful for the actors, and it’s also a direction I want to improve. After this collaboration, I love Master Lai and Chekhov even more.”