Introduction: This is a brand-new multi-ethnic cultural stage play, which is adapted from the life story of Pearl Buck, the first female writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize, and focuses on conveying hope, courage and understanding to the world. The play was co-produced by Chinese and American artists, and 30 dancers from different countries showed their understanding of eastern and western cultures through their unique dances.
Buck 1892 was born in the United States. She came to China with her missionary parents when she was four or five months old, and spent her childhood, adolescence and youth in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, which lasted 18 years. Having lived and worked in China for nearly 40 years, she called Chinese "the first language" and Zhenjiang "the hometown of China". I started writing at the age of 20, and used my life to describe a real China society for the western world. She created the concept of international adoption and fought for women's rights and interests, leaving an indelible legacy in both China and the United States, which is reflected in the play.
There are few lines in the performance. Occasionally put some subtitles to introduce the background and essence of the story. See with your own eyes, understand and imagine with your own brain. I think this is a great test of people's imagination and understanding, which is very different from the TV, movies and other forms of drama we usually watch.
The role played by the actors on the stage is lively. No matter the leading actor or the little actor, they are very devoted, and every scene has amazing dance and light and shadow. For the first time, I saw the actors on the stage express their stories and psychology with dance movements, which was particularly fresh and exciting. At the same time, my brain is spinning and thinking quickly, so as to keep up with the development process of the plot and story they performed. You can also see many China elements in the performance, such as Tai Chi, calligraphy, traditional dance, national music, sleeves, Jiangnan life and so on.
The protagonist in the play has been from a naive and lovely child to a weather-beaten and white-haired old man, during which his life stories are presented to us one by one. What impressed me the most was her performance when she experienced the hardships of life and felt lonely inside. I felt the despair, pain and confusion of the protagonist from her body movements.
The failure of marriage and the departure of relatives made her feel that she was suddenly left alone in the world, and the stage instantly changed from colorful to black and white, further enhancing the ups and downs of the characters' emotions. There is also a fascinating guqin dance part, in which the actors perform extremely difficult dances and acrobatics on the ancient strings made of special materials, and the real people turn into notes and dance on the high-altitude strings, playing wonderful music. The stage effect of True Guqin is refreshing.
And the river that runs through the stage is the highlight of the stage. It is designed by real water and is shaped like the Yangtze River. Dancers either dance by the river or in the water.
Pearl Buck often played by the river when she was a child. When she was young, she came to the river to seek comfort and sustenance when she experienced setbacks in life; When she returned to China to find her hometown, when she came to this haunted river again, her heart was full of memories and thoughts, and she remembered herself as a child. But now things have changed, people and things in the past have long gone, and only the river is still there, which has rekindled her new hopes and longings for life.
Although she has experienced the ups and downs of life along the way, looking back, she feels that all this happened just right. Her life is full and memorable, and she has not wasted her life!
Especially the description of life, belief, life and death mentioned in the last paragraph of the subtitle has aroused people's thinking about the meaning of life. Wonderful!
This is really a spiritual feast. At the end of the curtain call, the audience stood up and applauded. The music didn't stop when clapping, and everyone applauded with the rhythm of the music until the music was over.
After reading it, I'm still curious about the name of the play. Why is it called "moonlight on the spring river"? Where's Pearl Buck? After searching the Internet, I realized that it was because the protagonist lived in Zhenjiang for 18 years. It is said that the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang's "Moonlit Night on the Spring River" was also written in Zhenjiang. Therefore, the words "spring, river, flower, moon and night" in the poem are used to represent the different stages of Pearl Buck's life, and the five chapters of spring, river, flower, moon and night correspond to Pearl Buck's youth, travel, creation, thoughts and dreams. Through the traditional artistic conception of China's poems and the international language of dance art, the legendary life of this American woman writer is displayed.
Ezzolaro, the director and choreographer of the play, said: "Moonlit Night on the Spring River: Pearl Buck shows the globally integrated culture of our time. It shows the integration of Chinese and western culture, drama and dance, popular culture and elegant art, inspiration and expression from reality, and learning and entertainment. These different aspects did not separate us, but brought us together. "
If you are interested, you can go online and watch the promo of this play.