Today is a drama class. Wang Pingfei walked up to the podium and asked the students: "Have any of you ever seen a real stage play?"
"Or do you know how to appreciate a stage play?"
Hu Lei looked at Su Ze and saw that he didn't say anything, so she herself was silent. Instead, Zhao Yuncheng raised his hand and said, "We will go to Renyi on Saturday."
"Oh?" Wang Pingfei smiled and said, "Tell me how you feel."
Zhao Yuncheng stood up, coughed deliberately, and said with some pride: "I feel very deeply, especially the lines and acting skills of the veteran actors. They didn't wear microphones during the whole process, and I could hear every word clearly."
Then he spouted a few hundred words eloquently, and looked like I was awesome.
"That's right." Wang Pingfei encouraged: "People's Art can be said to represent the highest level of domestic drama. You can go and see more when you have time."
He also called on several other students and talked about their experience of stage plays. Finally, he 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 prerequisite for viewing is respect, respect for theater rules, respect for actors' performances, and respect for the audience themselves."
Wang Pingfei said seriously: "If you ask me what is the most important lesson in appreciating drama?"
"Go short!"
"Especially for acting students, many times because they have watched a lot of plays or read books on drama theory, they tend to go to the theater with a fixed mindset, right?"
"I just entered the school as a freshman and I don't understand anything. What the teacher says is what it is. I haven't learned to think independently yet. Every time I watch a play, I have to think about exam-oriented education and match what I see with what the teacher said?"
“If it corresponds, it’s right; if it doesn’t, it means it’s wrong?”
I saw many students nodding and saying loudly: "Childish!"
Su Ze recalled his last experience in the entertainment industry and had to say that Teacher Wang hit the nail on the head. In other words, it was difficult for him to fully engage in the plot.
Observe the details of the actors...comment on the rhythm of the lines...or even look 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 theater 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 theater, feel their subtle reactions while watching the show, and even experience the smells emanating from different audiences."
"Don't laugh!" Seeing a few girls wanting to laugh, he scolded them, "This is observing life."
"For example, when I watched Jiao Yuan's "The Story of the Golden Lock" last month, it rained heavily that day, and all the audience members who entered the venue felt a sticky dampness. Sitting next to me was an old man who was nearly 70 years old and kept coughing.
Cough, accompanied by a faint, indescribable smell of old people."
"Last month I went to see "Lectures on Nothing", and the person sitting next to me was a beautiful girl. As time went by, she fell asleep and didn't wake up drowsily until the end."
"Remember that you are actors, you must learn to open all your senses, experience, feel, and appreciate everything around you!"
Su Ze wrote it down carefully, and suddenly found that a door to a new world had opened?
“It’s not just the audience, it’s also interesting to feel the state of the actors when they take the curtain call. Some of them went back and forth for several curtain calls with great passion, some of them were in a hurry and wanted to go back to the backstage quickly, some of them bowed to the audience with tears in their eyes, and some of them bowed to the audience with tears in their eyes.
Being exhausted is like finishing something big..."
"Many times in just one minute, or even dozens of seconds, you can see more and more reality than what is in the play."
"Especially when an actor breaks out of his role and returns to his true self, the sense of confusion is very subtle!"
Wang Pingfei inspected the whole place 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. Never thought that by reading a few professional theory books, memorizing a few concepts about drama, or listening to many experts talk, you would suddenly know how to appreciate the word?
In other words, there is no fixed experience to draw from when crossing the threshold of drama, because everyone accepts things in different ways and at different speeds.
Maybe you didn't understand a certain line in this play at this moment. After a long time, you encountered a certain moment in life and suddenly realized the true meaning of this line. This is appreciation.
Maybe you didn't understand anything in the past two hours, but the warm and concentrated atmosphere in the theater makes you feel comfortable, which is also appreciation.
What Wang Pingfei means is not to focus on the plot itself, but to learn to let go and feel everything about the theater with ease, just like experiencing life. This is the best way to appreciate drama.
"Have you been paying attention to a variety show recently?" Wang Pingfei turned on the big screen and said, "It was created by Mr. Huang Lei from Beijing Film Academy."
"New life in drama!" someone rushed to answer.
Wang Pingfei nodded, opened the first photo, and introduced: "Needless to say, you all know Huang Lei. The director is Yan Min, the one who took on the ultimate challenge."
"The key point is the seven guests. They are all Mesozoic actors who are excellent in domestic stage dramas. His name is Liu Xiaoye, a working teacher of Beijing Dance. His masterpieces are "Rhinoceros in Love" and "Hitler's Belly". He once collaborated with Chen Minghao in "The Life of Two Dogs"
Opinions" toured more than 2,000 shows nationwide."
"Wu Bi, who participated in "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" and "Four Generations Under One Roof", is considered a senior drama senior."
"His name is Liu Tianqi. Last year, his film "Chicken and Rabbit in the Cage" won the Youth Competition Award at the Wuzhen Theater Festival. He is not much older than you."
"This is Zhao Xiaosu. He played the sinister and cunning PUA leader Yin Shengchao in this year's "Ordinary Glory". I personally like it very much."
"Liu Xiaoyi, the director of "War Horse" is also a friend of mine for many years. If you have the opportunity, let him come and teach you."
"Ding Yiteng was called the golden boy of stage drama by Shi Hang. He went to study at the Odin Theater Company and won the One Drama Award at the age of 27. He is the legendary child of someone else's family."
"Wu Haochen, some of you may have seen him. He has acted in "Ode to Joy" and "Nirvana in Fire". He is actually also a drama actor."
"As for the last one, many people should know him, 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 discovered 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, was emphasizing one thing.
Are they poor?
Seeing this, Wang Pingfei pressed pause and explained: "The current market situation is that the rehearsal fee of the state-owned theater troupe is 50-100/day, and the rehearsal fee of the market theater troupe 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. If the box office is not good, there will be no subsequent performances."
"So rehearsal fees and performance fees constitute the entire income of a stage actor. Guess how much a fledgling actor earns in a year?"
"Two hundred thousand?"
"Too little, I guess half a million!"
"At least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan per month, right?"
Listening to various answers, Wang Pingfei said helplessly: "Fifty thousand!"