News conference information
At 2:30 pm on December 19, 2012, the Shanghai-language drama "Forever Yin Xueyan" jointly created by cultural drama elites from the three places across the Taiwan Strait was held First press conference. Famous Taiwanese writer Bai Xianyong attended the press conference with the play's leading actor Hu Ge. This is the first authorized adaptation of "Forever Yin Xueyan" by Bai Xianyong. The reason why he has been "strictly guarding against it" for decades is because of the irreplaceable position of "Yin Xueyan" in Bai Xianyong's mind. Bai Xianyong said with a smile: "Yin Xueyan is like the city of Shanghai. The projection of the city will never grow old. She has Shanghai's unique exquisite restraint and low-key magnificence. Bai Xianyong said frankly that it was for the director Xu Jun's four-word "Shanghai-language drama": "It has the culture and charm of Shanghai." Only exquisiteness can give birth to a character like Yin Xueyan, and it is right for Yin Xueyan to speak Shanghainese!"
"Forever Yin Xueyan" is the first novel in the series of novels "Taipei People" by Bai Xianyong, which reflects the last century There have been many vicissitudes of life since the middle period. Since its publication, the fictional character Yin Xueyan has been established in the minds of many people with her lifelike and peerless image. It can be said that "everyone has a Yin Xueyan in their heart." Hu Ge as Xu Zhuangtu
The play was grandly performed at the Shanghai Cultural Plaza on May 4, 2013, kicking off the first round of 18 performances. Yin Xueyan has not yet shown her true face in Mount Lu, but the "Picture of Xu Zhuang", which takes up the most text in the short "Yin Xueyan Forever", makes a generous appearance. Director Xu Jun said that the reason why he chose Hu Ge was that his image and temperament fit well, but also because he had some hidden selfishness: "Hu Ge's biggest wish is to return to the stage, and the bookishness in him that never fades is just right for Xu Zhuang." , so we hit it off immediately." Hu Ge also said with a smile: "I am flattered to have such a performance opportunity after eight years of absence, especially being able to perform in my hometown dialect. It is always a test for me but it is also a reward. "The long-cherished wish of this 'little girl from Shanghai'" It is reported that for the extraordinary woman Yin Xueyan, Xu Jun also specially invited Zhang Shuping, the costume designer of "In the Mood for Love", to tailor cheongsam and other clothing for her. Zhang Shuping has completed Yin Xueyan's first look. Design and production of cheongsam. Xu Jun revealed: "The one I have completed now matches Yin Xueyan's temperament very well. It can be said to be a cheongsam from heaven."
Following the Kunqu opera "The Peony Pavilion" and "The Story of the Hosta", The famous Taiwanese writer Bai Xianyong once again takes on the role, bringing the most important woman in his heart - Yin Xueyan to the stage. On December 19, 2012, Bai Xianyong appeared at the press conference with Hu Ge, the leading actor who played Xu Zhuangtu in the Shanghainese drama "Forever Yin Xueyan". Who is the heroine in this Shanghainese drama? First of all, she must be able to speak Shanghainese, and secondly, she must look about the same age as Hu Ge. The final candidate, Mr. Bai Xianyong, is still under consideration. Director's Thoughts
Director Xu Juncheng was horrified when adapting "Forever Yin Xueyan", "I was only 3 years old when Mr. Bai wrote this novel." After directing "Sister Yu Qing", he hopes to adapt Yin Xueyan into a movie On the stage, "She is the woman hidden deep in Mr. Bai's heart. She is cold and mysterious, a symbol, as if she is in the sky, unconventional, and out of reach of all living beings."
Hu Ge plays Xu Zhuang Picture
The classic old songs of the 1940s singer Bai Guang will be used throughout the whole drama of "Forever Yin Xueyan", and "Fire of Love", "The Soul of the Old Dream", etc. will appear one by one. Xu Jun hopes Using absurd and symbolistic techniques, Shanghainese dialect, Shanghai old songs and dances are integrated on the stage. "I want to recreate history and bring back memories of the past. Memory is very important. We often erase memories of the past, and people seem to suffer from amnesia. I think that if a person or a city erases the past, it will lose one thing. "Big chunks." Bai Xianyong said that the most attractive thing about "Forever Yin Xueyan" is the Shanghainese performance format, which retains the special memory of an era. If the language is forgotten, the city's memory will also be damaged. This play does not need to carry the heavy responsibility of inheriting Shanghai culture. This is our exploration and practice.
If the audience likes it very much, I think when they walk out of the theater, people will be deeply impressed by Shanghainese and this new stage appearance, and more people will do this in the future. In fact, nowadays, movies also attach great importance to language. If "1942" were not in Henan dialect, it would lose a lot of points. "From another perspective, he is also curious about how the symbolic role of Yin Xueyan is presented on the stage. "There are still many Yin Xueyans now, don't you think? Yin Xueyan's descendants are active again. That's why Yin Xueyan is forever, she will always be a woman's dream. "Performance Information
Performance Time
Venue
2013.05.04-05.12 (Premiere)
Shanghai Cultural Plaza
2013.10.09-10.13
Appreciation of Shanghai Cultural Square Plays
"Forever Yin Xueyan" is one of Bai Xianyong's masterpieces. Nowadays, Shanghainese have a deep understanding of the past, especially the last century. I yearn for the splendor of the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Bai Xianyong once walked on the bustling streets of Shanghai, looking at the endless flow of people and the flashing neon lights, and sighed, "Yin Xueyan will never grow old, and Shanghai will never grow old." This novel embodies a kind of "cultural nostalgia." , can evoke people's old memories of Shanghai's unprecedented prosperity.
On the one hand, the author tries his best to exaggerate her mysterious charm, but on the other hand, most of her fans always find it tragic. As the ending. The author wrote, "Yes, Yin Xueyan has snow-white skin, a slender figure, a long face and a pair of pretty and sweet eyebrows, but these are not the extraordinary things about Yin Xueyan." "She is amazing because of her "every move and every move, there is always a charm that is unparalleled by the world", because of her pleasant and thoughtful Wu Nong's soft words, and the very appropriate arrangements. The living room that makes people sit and refuse to move is even more inexplicable because she has the magic power to charm both men and women, and she is "never old"...
"Forever Yin Xueyan" is the first part of the "Taipei People" series. Through the portrayal of Yin Xueyan's image, the work also reveals the decadent life of Taiwan's upper class in the "Taipei People" collection. The works were all created by the author after he immigrated to the United States. Most of them are based on the life of the upper-class ruling class of the Kuomintang, showing the life and mental state of aristocrats, bureaucrats, wealthy businessmen and other various characters after the Kuomintang regime retreated to Taiwan. The upper-class ruling class of the Kuomintang has a deeper understanding of the lives and characters of this class. Yin Xueyan was originally a flower-like beauty in Paramount, Shanghai. She was "able to confuse all the men she came into contact with" and was an upstart in the foreign trade. After arriving in Taiwan, Yin Mansion quickly became a place of joy and nostalgia for the upper class' "old rain and new knowledge". "It seems that Yin Xueyan is the eternal symbol of Shanghai's Paramount era, Beijing (old Nanjing) and Shanghai (old Nanjing). "The evidence of the prosperity of Shanghai". Those old people and young people who lost their official titles, whose titles were invalidated more than ten years ago, regained a lot of psychological superiority after Yin Xueyan and Wu Nong called them softly. In Yin Gongguan, patients with rheumatism and Manager Wu, who has rotten eyes, never forgets to relive his golden dream in the past; the lady who is addicted to the card table fills her mental emptiness and collapse with fierce fighting, but Yin Xueyan does not bring them any hope. She is charming and cold; she looks at the fight on the card table, and she is killing people invisibly. She is like a "white evil star", "whoever gets involved will lose their family in the least case, and will be killed in the worst case." . At that time, Wang Guisheng, a Shanghai cotton yarn tycoon, was shot for it, and Director Hong of the financial industry was ruined because of it; now, Taiwan's new upstart Xu Zhuangtu was also assassinated and became a parasite for people like Yin Xueyan. The social foundation of Yin Xueyan, and the "heavy evil spirit" of Yin Xueyan also means the inevitable fate of this aristocratic society. Appreciation of the protagonist
Speaking of Yin Xueyan, Bai Xianyong said that the inspiration for this character came from his childhood memories, "I came from it. He spent his time in Shanghai from the age of 9 to 12. In 1945, I came to Shanghai from dusty Chongqing to see the colorful world.
I was just a child at that time and had never entered Paramount. I just passed by and looked at the door. I saw a group of dancing girls stepping in gracefully. Their unparalleled grace was truly unparalleled throughout the world. You can't find them anywhere else in the world. I'm afraid only in Greater Shanghai, a land steeped in Chinese and Western culture for hundreds of years, can we absorb, integrate and cultivate such exquisite beauties. "Years later, when he was studying at the University of Iowa in the United States, he came up with the idea of ??writing "Taipei People", and "Forever Yin Xueyan" became his first book.
"Yin Xueyan is really charming. But no one could tell what was truly charming about her. Yin Xueyan never likes to wear rouge or powder, and sometimes she only puts on some indistinct bits of Max Buddha on her lips. Yin Xueyan also doesn't like to wear red and green. The weather is hot, and she has been covered in silver all summer, and she looks great... …"In the novel, Bai Xianyong uses delicate pen and ink to describe Yin Xueyan. She seems to be the product of Shanghai Zhong Ling Yuxiu. "I wrote her to be extremely graceful and exquisite. She passed by like a gust of wind. She belonged to heaven, not to earth. "Since the birth of the novel, countless people have speculated on Yin Xueyan's prototype. Bai Xianyong replied with a smile: "She is just my imagination. I pieced it together from the real behaviors and postures of the people and things I have seen." "Yin Xueyan is a Paramount woman with an illustrious history. She is beautiful, cold, and powerful. She always wears white and is stationed in the heart of the world of glamour. Her coquettishness makes people around her obsessed and crazy, and she is the pursuit target of the nouveau riche in the ten-mile foreign trade. , the three men who fell in love with her all lost their jobs and died unexpectedly. Huang Liya as Yin Xueyan
In the first issue of "Contemporary" in 1979, "Forever Yin Xueyan" became the first article published in mainland China since the reform and opening up. Taiwanese novels. To this day, Yin Xueyan is still the most worthy of analysis in Bai Xianyong's works. She always appears in a pure image of "a plain white cheongsam with organza" and "soft-soled embroidered shoes of moon-white satin", "like a common lady". The silver-white priestess "gives people a sense of desolation and sadness." She is like a god of death. Death is the most attractive because everyone must throw themselves into her arms and surrender to her. My friend Ouyangzi analyzed Yin Xueyan and Bai Bai very well. She is an elf, a person in the sky, different from the people around her. "Bai Xianyong said frankly that Yin Xueyan's ageless female image has a deified symbolic meaning. She seems to hold the power of life and death in the world. The so-called eternal age is actually a metaphor for the eternity and mystery of "death".
Yin Xueyan is always around Many men, Wang Guisheng, committed the serious crime of colluding with officials and businessmen for her, and were shot in prison. However, Director Hong brought her into the upper class, making her like a flawless jade pear flower, overwhelming the crowd in Shanghai's upper class society. In the end, Xu Zhuangtu was stabbed to death by a worker indirectly because of her evil spirit. These are the reasons why Yin Xueyan was jealous of other women, but she was able to arouse the nostalgia of the rich ladies, which is misleading. In that year, there was prosperity and wealth in Shanghai.