Meng Jinghui's new drama "Seventh Day" was staged in Avignon

On July 18, local time in France, Chinese director Meng Jinghui's drama "Seventh Day" welcomed the world's premiere in Avignon Cloître Des Carmes, and performed 7 consecutive games on July 18th to 25th. This is the first official Chinese drama work in the Avignon In drama festival for 76 years. "Seventh Day" has gained nearly 500 dramatic audiences and expert media from all over the world, and once again let the world see the exploration and leap of Chinese contemporary drama.

Avignon's drama director Aiez Tyli came to the premiere scene, and made a high degree of affirmation of "Day Seventh Day" after the performance, thinking that this was an incredible and beyond imagination work. He also said that being able to commit to Meng Jinghui to participate in this Avignon drama festival is of great significance to the drama festival itself.

The drama "Seventh Day" is both a metaphor from the Bible and a journey of "Divine Comedy". It tells the seven days after an ordinary person's death. Based on his social relationship and yin and yang realm as the context, a world full of sorrow, memories and dreams.

The fog birds happened to his father, wife, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances; ashamed blood flowing in the virtuous city he lived in his lives; the reasonable heart, blooming in the senses of the misty sorrow. As the truth continues, he examines the cause and find freedom with the ghost's eyes. The world of life was rough, but the beautiful land after the death was tender and tender, and the beating heart was hanging on the tree.

Starting from the body of the novel, the deceased let the deceased come and go in both realms of life and death. Putting sadness and joy, warmth and warmth, cruel reality and romantic poetry on the stage. Restarting the door of life from a dead perspective. Taking the deceased Yang Fei as the heart, the radius of gradually expanding the life and death: the end of life is also the beginning of death.

After the death, Yang Fei met more dead people, and they explored the meaning of life together in the most good world after death. After the death of people's death, in the empty and chaotic city, in the bizarre and tender and beautiful grief clutches in a pile of absurdity and tenderness, they explored their inner coordinates and opened a wonderful journey of pursuing themselves and re -building after death. Essence

Yu Hua, a well -known contemporary writer, is also one of the most popular Chinese writers in the international literary world. As the "Representative of Mainland Pioneer Novels", he has authored "Alive", "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", "Screaming in Droms", "Brothers", "Seventh Day" and "Wencheng". His novel "Seventh Day" is undoubtedly his most disruptive adventure and exploration:

"In" Seventh Day ", I described the real world from the perspective of a dead. This is my narrative distance." Day Seventh Day "is a recent writing of my closest to reality, and it may not be so close in the future. "

Yu Hua's brutal and tender splitting, fiction and real interoperability were opened by Meng Jinghui in a "near and far" way. On the basis of loyalty to the original work, Meng Jinghui draws inspiration from Homer epic and ancient Greek mythology. It uses his vanguard to sculpt the absurdity, stare at the perspective of compassion. Sample world.

"Seventh Day" was starred by Chinese drama strength actors Chen Minghao, Mei Ting, Huang Xiangli, Sun Yucheng, Wang Zixing, Han Shuo, and Xiao Dingchen.

On the stage, the familiar pioneer drama face interprets absurdity and truth. Sun Yucheng, Wang Zixing, Han Shuo, Xiao Dingchen, they changed different identities: they were all aggrieved rats and ants, victims who were deeply trapped in human abyss ... Some people had been in the past and lost their expressions; some people As soon as he entered the dead, he was still charging with unlike and regrets during his lifetime. They unveiled the illusion of the noodles, opened the sunroofs that focused on the current sunroof, and led the audience to find the exit to the light between the loud complaints and silence.

The stage of "Seventh Day" is located in the open -air theater, Les Cloître Des Carmes built in the 13th century. Visual artist Zhang Wulang's magnificent arched arch builds a visual imagination of overlapping extension. The giant crushing machine is placed on the stage, surrounded by refrigerators, tables and chairs, sofas ... These real symbols are put together to make up the dying and chaotic real world; Turning the entire theater into an unprepared space.

The different game of love and hate, life and death is torn under the sky. Ebvirus live bands composed of musicians Huashan and Wang Chuang also changed the accompaniment of different emotions with the narrative of different deceased. The notes penetrate in the air, and gradually weaker in the building structure unique to the ancient practice courtyard, and it is fleeting but cannot be ignored.

The intervention of the light cleverly balances this soul journey that is also true, life and death. Lighting designer Wang Qi let the light and shadow symbolizing different inner emotions permeated all corners of the stage. Weird, strong, extinguishing regrets, lighting of gentleness ... Whether it is a clear and cold face, or a sad and melancholy reflection, they are full of the entire theater as the lights are filled.

The theme of this year's drama festival is "Originally" («Il était UNE FOIS ...»), as Olivier Py mentioned at the beginning of the current Avignon drama festival: "'from the previous', not far from the end, because everything is far away, because everything is far away, because everything is far away because everythingI always end with "former", but because of this, we have the possibility of telling it again. "They are also the rhythm of heart beating when they shake. "Under Yu Hua's strokes, the beauty of the world is like a mirror flower and a dream.

Meng Jinghui used his pioneer aesthetic system to shape the various social landscapes and merged the current thinking.Create the best of life and death in the strange space -time framework, and give the "Seventh Day" a long -term and eternal vitality.

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