Actors start from the college entrance examination

Chapter 67 The Stage Play

Today is a drama class, Wang Pingfei walked up to the podium and asked the students: "Has any of you seen a real stage play?"

"Or know how to appreciate a stage play?"

Hu Lei looked at Su Ze, saw that he didn't speak, and she was also silent. Instead, Zhao Yuncheng raised her hand and said, "We went to see Renyi on Saturday."

"Oh?" Wang Pingfei smiled and said, "Tell me about your feelings."

Zhao Yuncheng stood up, coughed lightly on purpose, and said with some pride: "I feel very deeply, especially the lines and acting skills of the veteran actors. They didn't wear a microphone during the whole process, and they could hear every word clearly."

Then he scribbled a few hundred words eloquently, acting as if I was awesome.

"That's right." Wang Pingfei encouraged: "Renyi can be said to represent the highest level of domestic dramas. You should go and watch them when you have time."

He also named several other students, and each talked about their experience in stage plays, and finally walked up to the podium and said, "Today I will tell you how to appreciate a play from a professional perspective."

"The three major hazards of theater: mobile phones, children, and plastic bags."

"The premise of viewing is respect, respect for theater regulations, respect for actors' performances, and respect for the audience themselves."

Wang Pingfei said seriously: "If you ask me what is the most important homework for appreciating drama?"

"Empty!"

"Especially for acting students, because they have watched a lot of plays or read books on drama theory, it is easy to go to the theater with a fixed mindset, right?"

"I just entered school as a freshman, and I don't understand anything. What the teacher says is what, and I haven't learned to think independently. Every time I watch a play, I instinctively use the exam-oriented education thinking to match what I see with what the teacher said?"

"If it matches, it's right, if it doesn't match, it's wrong?"

Seeing many students nodding, they said loudly, "Childish!"

Su Ze recalled the last experience of Renyi, and had to say that Mr. Wang hit the nail on the head. In other words, it was difficult for him to fully participate in the plot.

Observing the details of the actors...commenting on the rhythm of the lines...even looking for their shortcomings?

"You must learn to feel the relationship between yourself and the audience around you." Wang Pingfei explained while writing on the blackboard: "Usually I like to watch a show alone, and most of the time the people sitting next to me are strangers."

"I like to observe their state before and after entering the arena, feel their subtle reactions when watching the show, and even experience the smells from different audiences."

"Don't laugh!" Seeing a few girls wanting to laugh, he scolded, "This is observing life."

"For example, when I watched Jiao Yuan's "The Golden Lock" last month, it rained heavily that day, and all the audience who entered the venue felt sticky and wet. Sitting next to me was an old man who was nearly seventy years old, coughing all the time. Cough, accompanied by a faint and indescribable old man's smell."

"Last month, I went to see "A Lecture on Nothing". There was a beautiful girl sitting next to me. As time went by, she fell asleep and woke up with sleepy eyes until the end."

"Remember that you are actors, you must learn to open all your senses, to experience, to feel, to appreciate everything around you!"

Su Ze wrote it down carefully, and suddenly found a door to a new world opened?

"It's not just the audience, it's even more interesting to feel the state of the actors at the curtain call. There are those who are passionate about the curtain call several times, some who are in a hurry and want to go backstage quickly, and some who bow to the audience with tears in their eyes. Exhausted like the one who accomplished something big..."

"Many times in just one minute, or even tens of seconds, what you see is more and more real than what you see in the play."

"Especially when the actor just jumped out of the role and returned to the instant transformation of himself, the sense of blur is very subtle!"

Wang Pingfei patrolled the audience, and his eyes fell on Su Ze involuntarily. This sentence may be very profound to others, but this kid should understand it, right?

Su Ze and Teacher Wang looked at each other, as if they understood something.I never thought that after reading a few professional theoretical books, memorizing a few concepts about drama, and listening to many experts' talks, I would suddenly understand how to appreciate two words?

In other words, there is no fixed experience to learn from when crossing the threshold of drama, because everyone accepts things in different ways and speeds.

Maybe you didn't understand a certain line in this play at this moment. After a long time, when you meet a certain moment in your life, you suddenly realize the true meaning of this line. This is appreciation.

Maybe I didn't understand anything in these two hours, but the warm and concentrated atmosphere in the theater makes you very comfortable, which is also appreciation.

What Wang Pingfei meant should be to stop focusing on the plot itself, learn to let go, and feel at ease to feel everything that belongs to the theater, just like feeling life. This is the best way to appreciate drama.

"Did you pay attention to a variety show recently?" Wang Pingfei turned on the big screen and said, "Mr. Huang Lei from Beijing Film Academy made it."

"A new life for drama!" Someone rushed to answer.

Wang Pingfei nodded, opened the first photo, and introduced: "Needless to say, Huang Lei, you should all know. The director is Yan Min, the one who challenges the limit."

"The key point is the seven guests, all of whom are excellent Mesozoic actors in domestic stage plays. His name is Liu Xiaoye, an in-service teacher of Beiwu, and his masterpieces are "Rhinoceros in Love" and "Hitler's Belly". "Opinion" toured the country with more than [-] performances."

"Wu Bi, who participated in "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" and "Four Generations Under One Roof", can be regarded as an experienced drama predecessor."

"His name is Liu Tianqi. Last year, "Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage" won the Wuzhen Drama Festival Youth Competition Award. He is not a few years older than you."

"This is Zhao Xiaosu. He played the sinister and cunning PUA leader Yin Shengchao in "Ordinary Glory" this year. I personally like it very much."

"Liu Xiaoyi, the director of "War Horse" and my friend for many years, I have a chance to let him come to teach you."

"Ding Yiteng, known by Shi Hang as the golden boy of stage play, went to Odin Theater Troupe to study, and won the Yi Drama Award at the age of 27. He is the child of someone else's family in the legend."

"Wu Haochen, some of you may have seen him. He has acted in "Ode to Joy" and "Nirvana in Fire: Long Forest". He is actually a drama actor."

"As for the last one, he should be known by many people, right?"

Su Ze looked at the bearded man on the screen, isn't this Xiu Rui?

Wang Pingfei played the first episode of the program, and Su Ze found that the core of the program at the beginning, whether it was Huang Lei's opening monologue or the first agenda of the seven dramatists, they all repeatedly emphasized one thing.

They are poor?

Seeing this, Wang Pingfei pressed the pause button and explained: "The current market situation is that the rehearsal fee for state-owned theater troupes is 50-100/day, and the rehearsal fee for market troupes is 150-200/day."

"Usually the normal rehearsal period for a play is 30-50 days, and the first round of performances ranges from three to ten performances. If the box office is not good, there will be no follow-up performances."

"So rehearsal fees + performance fees constitute the entire income of a stage actor. Guess how much a fledgling drama actor earns in a year?"

"20?"

"Too little, I guess 50!"

"At least [-] to [-] a month, right?"

After listening to various answers, Wang Pingfei said helplessly, "Fifty thousand!"

(End of this chapter)