Redefine “Cherry Orchard” with limbs
Hangzhou Daily News “Cut down this cherry orchard, this is the only way out.” When life has to change, what choices will you make? In The Cherry Orchard, people decide to cut down the trees in the entire garden.
From December 6 to 7, the popular drama “Cherry Orchard” at the Wuzhen Theater Festival, directed by Wang Yuanyuan and Jin Dong as artistic director, is coming to the Hangzhou Grand Theater. Sun Li, Wu Bi and Liu Xiaoye performed together, presenting a different “Cherry Orchard” to the Hangzhou audience.
“The Cherry Orchard”, a new physical theater work, is adapted from Chekhov’s play of the same name. In 1904, Stanislavsky first staged The Cherry Orchard at the Moscow Art Theater. Being a world classic drama, “The Cherry Orchard” has been continuously staged by top-tier directors at home and abroad for over 100 years. British director Peter Brook, Italian director Strel, Chinese Xu Xiaozhong and Lin Zhaohua all directed the show. Each performance by each director is a unique artistic presentation and sentiment.
This is also the Beijing Contemporary Repertory Troupe, the producer of the play, which once again challenges the world classics after works such as “Madame on the Sea”, “Macbeth” and “The Elephant Man”. For the leading creators of the Beijing Contemporary Repertory Theater, the adaptation of the text alone is not enough to support their endless reverie of the drama. This time around, they will give a unique interpretation of this world-famous classic in the form of cross-border physical performance.
Director Wang Yuanyuan, who was born as a dancer, has extraordinary control and a unique understanding of the limbs. “My new physical theater work recreates the protagonist Liu Baofu in the original” Cherry Orchard. “When businessman Robasin became the new hero here, Liu Baofu, who was risking bankruptcy, was still indulging in the his own narrative. Between them. “Wang Yuanyuan wanted to express himself physically, when the cherry trees fell one by one, everyone said goodbye to the old life in their own way.
In the comedy, the director enlarges the emotional space of the characters, leaving more room for the audience’s imagination, and makes full use of physical and visual vocabulary, as well as expressions close to expressionism to integrate actions, lines, music and emotions to form tension. Full of general expression.
In the dramatic world, being able to play the heroine of “The Cherry Orchard” means that the actress’s acting skills have been highly recognized. Sun Li, who this time plays Liu Baofu, has been active on the stage of drama over the years, from “Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land”, “Requiem”, “The Earl of Monte Cristo” to “The Cherry Orchard”. The other two main actors, Wu Bi and Liu Xiaoye, were loved by many viewers for their “breaking the circle” performances in the “Drama New Life” variety show. In fact, they are all experienced playwrights with thousands of plays. What kind of discoveries will they bring to “The Cherry Orchard”?
It is worth mentioning that in addition to “Cherry Orchard”, which was announced yesterday, three other performances of the Wuzhen Drama Festival will be staged one after the other at the Grand Theater in Hangzhou, creating a splendid theatrical party. From 10 to 11 November, “Thirteen Angles of Relationship” with Lai Shengchuan, Xie Na, and the article will be the first to appear in Hangzhou before the Wuzhen Drama Festival; from January 13-14 next year, Wuzhen’s opening drama “The Seventh Day” will be staged at the Hangzhou Grand Theater and tickets will be issued today; Wang Yabin’s dance drama “Tsing Yi” will also arrive in Hangzhou in early summer next year.
