How many versions of The Peach Blossom Spring directed by Lai Shengchuan have been released?

There are four versions of Peach Blossom Spring in the past twenty years.

First edition: shelved

"The group of people who participated in the creation in those years felt that the works at that time were like the mood and joy of pregnancy, like love. I threw a seed to the actor, and the actor devoted himself to incubating eggs. "

1983165438+1On October 30th, Lai Shengchuan, a young drama director, announced the establishment of the drama Peach Blossom Garden in Secret Love in his living room. This is the second performance workshop created by Lai Shengchuan, and it is also his first performance workshop with Li Liqun and Hugh Lee. The cross talk drama "We Crosstalk That Night" became popular all over Taiwan almost overnight, which made a good start for the development of performance. However, Lai Shengchuan was more nervous about his previous success, so all the pressure and burden were put on "unrequited love".

When Lai Shengchuan first created "Peach Blossom Garden Secret Love", he framed it as a theme of "two troupes contending for a play" and two performances of "a play in a play". Recalling the original source of inspiration, Lai Shengchuan said that it all originated from the chaotic environment in Taiwan Province Province.

Once, Lai Shengchuan listened to the accidental experience of Hugh Lee watching the rehearsal of "Thank Smile" directed by Chen Yuyan in the Art Museum: At that time, "Thank Smile" was rehearsed in the afternoon and premiered in the evening, and a primary school graduation ceremony was arranged in the middle of two hours. Before the rehearsal of the play was finished, the pupils were already sitting under the stage, and the piano and lecture table on the other side were waiting to go on stage. So he designed a lot of interference on the stage to push the drama forward. There are all kinds of interferences, including tragedies and comedies, actors and actresses, directors and actors, bystanders and actors, and so on. When Secret Love and Peach Blossom Spring were performed on the same stage, it was a classic moment of that era: the service staff at the front desk of the theater counted the time and returned to the theater again and again; Actors Li Liqun and Gu Baoming saw the audience sitting in the front row with their own eyes, and some people fell off their chairs laughing on the spot.

For the "grand occasion" caused by the performance of "Secret Love of Peach Blossom Garden" at that time, Lai Shengchuan felt that it was not surprising: life in Taiwan Province Province was too chaotic, which was the experience of people in Taiwan Province Province; However, in it, people can also maintain a chaotic order.

"The official rehearsal began at1985165438+1October 30th. At first, it was three days a week, and it began to be intensive in mid-February from 65438 until it premiered in Taipei in March of the following year. At that time, the "performance workshop" had no formal office and rehearsal space. The rehearsal places are Liu Jingmin's home and my home, as well as the rehearsal venues of Lanling (Theater) and Yunmen (Experimental Theater). " When talking about the first rehearsal, Lai Shengchuan said: When he proposed to start with two troupes competing for a stage, everyone immediately had a heated discussion. What kind of troupes were competing for the theater? In numerous arguments, a third-rate troupe featuring the tragedy Unrequited Love and a Jianghu troupe featuring the third-rate comedy Peach Blossom Garden were born. Actors also choose their roles according to their own characteristics: Li Liqun, Gu Baoming and Liu Jingmin, who are good at comedy, naturally become actors in Peach Blossom Garden, while Hehe's wife, Jin and Guan Guan become actors in Unrequited Love.

It was winter at that time, and Yangmingshan in the suburb of Taipei was getting colder every day, but Lai Shengchuan and Naizhu Ding's families were getting busier every day. Every evening, Li Liqun, Jin Shijie, Gu Baoming, Liu Jingmin and other actors set out from Taipei to explore Yangmingshan. When entering the door, they have been tacitly separating rice, vegetables, cooking and baking bread. After a hearty meal, they chatted for a while with their favorite drinks. Seemingly idle, in fact, a happy and serious job will begin soon.

"The group of people who participated in the creation in those years felt that the works at that time were like the mood and joy of pregnancy, like love. I threw a seed to the actor, and the actor devoted himself to incubating the eggs. Slowly, you can see that if you are pregnant with soybeans, you may give birth to soybeans, mung beans and even melons. Rehearsal is like a game. Actors become bosom friends from birth. It seems that a group of adults are playing children's games and making childhood memories. Very fun. " Lai Shengchuan recalled.

Second Edition: Warm-up

After a lapse of four years, many actors were replaced, among which Yun was replaced by movie stars and actors who were already very popular. This is also the first and only time that Brigitte Lin appeared in a stage play. "

Unrequited love 1986 was a great success, and soon became the iconic repertoire of Biaofang. So in 199 1, Lai Shengchuan rearranged the script. When talking about the reasons for the recurrence, Lai Shengchuan said it was to prepare for the upcoming film. During the five years from 1986 to 199 1, the situation has changed greatly. After the mainland is open to visiting relatives, darkness can go deep into the theme without hindrance. On the one hand, it is developing towards the personal spiritual world, on the other hand, it is developing towards a broader vision and a more eternal universal meaning of life. The premiere version of the popular drama mode, relying on the emotion of real events, ran successfully. Now this popular drama combines a larger structure and radiates a bigger proposition, which is no longer limited to cross-strait relations.

After a lapse of four years, many actors were changed during the remake, among which Yun was replaced by a movie star and actor who had already become a smash hit. This is also the first and only time that Brigitte Lin appeared in a stage play.

For the actors in the second edition, the arrangement of Darkness is more like rehearsing with a written book, which has little to do with improvisation. When an actor gets a script, he is faced with a strong personality created by another person, and he will try to figure it out. What Lai Shengchuan had to do at that time was to let them get out of their feelings regardless of their original roles. In the same year, the play toured the United States and Hong Kong, causing a sensation in the Chinese world, and the performance was even more brilliant because the movie star Brigitte Lin participated in the performance of "The Mystery of the Cloud". For the performance in 199 1, Taiwan Province rated it as "Peach Blossom Garden has a secret love, washing three warm feelings".

Film version: laying the foundation stone

After winning the prize, Brigitte Lin received a congratulatory phone call from Xing Li, who had been pursuing her for a long time. He lived opposite her and arranged a celebration party without her knowledge. It was also this opportunity that Brigitte Lin began to accept this businessman who loved her deeply. "

1992, Lai Shengchuan made The Peach Blossom Garden into a movie, with the original actors, Du Kefeng photography and Zhang Shuping production. After the film was released in Taiwan Province Province and achieved a good box office, it shined brilliantly at international film festivals and won many awards. Since then, Brigitte Lin's The Mystery of the Cloud has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

"The role of cloud is the purest symbol of peach blossom in Peach Blossom Spring; Brigitte Lin is an unshakable star in the film history of China. People generally expect Brigitte Lin to play Yun Fan Zhi, but it also caused some controversy at the beginning. " Lai Shengchuan recalled the reason why he chose Brigitte Lin.

It turns out that before joining Peach Blossom Spring, Brigitte Lin had long been interested in cooperating with Lai Shengchuan in stage play, and declared that "to play a stage play, the director must be Lai Shengchuan". But by chance, it didn't work out. Before 199 1 starred in Darkness, Brigitte Lin was negatively evaluated by public opinion and the public for refusing to attend the Golden Horse Award, and his mood was at a low ebb. After Tsui Hark's strong recommendation to Lai Shengchuan, Brigitte Lin decided to join the stage performance and film performance of Peach Blossom Garden. At that time, public opinion and some stage audience also had some doubts about this. They thought that she had never acted in a stage play and suspected that she was not qualified to play the role of Yun.

When Naizhu Ding recalled the cooperation in those years, he often lamented that although Brigitte Lin was famous all over the world, he was no different from the ordinary actors in the crew, and he didn't play the spleen at all. Later, he became good friends with Lai Shengchuan and Naizhu Ding. When Dreaming Like a Dream was staged in Hongkong, Brigitte Lin and Tsui Hark made a special trip to watch it and enjoyed the theater time for 8 hours in a row.

1At the end of 992, the 5th Tokyo International Film Festival opened. Secret Love of Peach Blossom Garden participated in this film festival and won the Young Director Silver Cherry Blossom Award, and Brigitte Lin won the Best Actress Award. After winning the prize, she returned to the hotel. Brigitte Lin received a phone call from Xing Li, who had been pursuing her for a long time, congratulating her on winning the prize. He lived opposite her and arranged a celebration party without her knowledge. It was also by taking this opportunity that Li Xing made Brigitte Lin owe "an irreparable favor", and Brigitte Lin began to accept this businessman who loved her deeply.

During the period of 1993, in the Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy, "darkness" passed silently at an extremely fast speed. Ironically, however, compared with the performance of Taiwan Province Province, the popular atmosphere in Beijing circulates in a small circle. More tacit understanding comes from a surprise between creators-a surprise for the theater, a surprise for the movie-so you can. ...

Third Edition: Remodeling

"In the interview, Lai Shengchuan seems to remember the rehearsal process of each version vividly, and this version is no exception. He said that the performance was held at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taiwan Province Province, which was a theater he didn't like, with 2,500 seats, which was too big and the sound was not very good ... "

1September, 1999, Peach Blossom Garden Secret Love was revised three times in Taiwan Province Province. In this performance, Mesozoic actors began to replace the original actors, Yun You played, Lao Tao and Boss Yuan played by Zhao Ziqiang and Feng Yikang. The island tour that started on September 4th was interrupted by the 92 1 earthquake, and many tours were forced to be cancelled.

Talking about the feelings of three adaptations, Lai Shengchuan said: "I was moved by rediscovering some of the spirit of creation. I rediscovered that "Secret Love of Peach Blossom Garden" is actually the same as "That night, we talked about cross talk", and it can be performed without any special stage conditions or huge backstage support or technical cooperation. Everyone and everything must play a role on the stage. Most scenes are changed by actors in front of the audience, and these factors should also be considered in the arrangement of screenwriters and all the stage scheduling of directors. When we were traveling in America, we checked all our luggage except the swing and peach trees, which were made by the American set factory. We don't have a good theater, and we don't have a generous budget to invite a lot of backstage staff ... Thinking of this, we also think of the original Taiwan Province Provincial Theater and the way we have come. Then everything is so natural, and restrictions and obstacles have become such big incentives. "

In the interview, Lai Shengchuan seems to remember the rehearsal process of each version vividly, and this version is no exception. He said that the performance was held at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taiwan Province Province, which was a theater he didn't like, with 2,500 seats. It was too big and the sound was not very good. As a result, he made a brick wall for performance alone, which turned into a ward without a door in the play, and the cloud came directly from the entrance of the theater. At that time, the pressure on actors was also great. It is conceivable that Feng Yikang and Zhao Ziqiang had to meet Gu Baoming and Li Liqun. And Xiao Ai has no problem, because she has played the role of cloud in the tour of 199 1 year. However, everyone received it smoothly and the audience liked it very much.

06 Edition: Commemoration

"Some actors from film, television and variety shows have different yearning for the stage and great passion and investment in rehearsal, which makes him feel very satisfied because not every actor can do this."

After 20 years of re-performance and re-arrangement, Darkness ushered in its commemorative performance this year. Taiwan Province province and the mainland rehearsed at the same time. Although this year's Taiwan Province edition, Lai Shengchuan made a great breakthrough in form, cooperated with Taiwan Province Gezi Troupe Yuan Minghua, and even hung a tightrope on the stage. However, since the mainland edition was first published, Lai Shengchuan chose to restore the original edition 20 years ago.

"I've been secretly in love for 20 years, and I've always wanted to do something different, so I chose to cooperate with Chinese opera this time because the stage environment in Taiwan Province Province is mature enough for everyone to understand what I'm playing, and it's not necessarily appropriate to put it on the mainland. In addition, the head of Chen Ye is very interesting. After he agreed to cooperate, he suddenly had no news for three months and finally said OK. When he comes to my house for dinner, he always apologizes and explains why he is so hesitant, because he is really stressed. He thinks such a classic as Peach Blossom Spring is so classic that he is very worried that it will be destroyed by himself. And he is a person who has done things very simply all his life and has only hesitated for a long time in this matter. " Lai Shengchuan said.

The mainland version of Dark consists of Yolanda (Yolanda News, Yolanda Music, Yolanda Speak), Huang Lei, Nana (Nana blog, Nana News, Nana Music, Nana Speak) (blog) and He Wei (He Wei News, He Wei Music, He Wei Speak) (blog). He said that mainland drama actors may now be more interested in film and television dramas and less interested in stage plays. On the contrary, some actors from movies, TV shows and variety shows have different yearning for the stage and great passion and devotion to rehearsal, which makes him feel very satisfied, because not every actor can do this.

"When the producers and I identified these actors, we also took into account possible doubts from the outside world. But I think everyone will know after watching the play. I won't make fun of my works, especially the classic works like Darkness, and I won't treat them casually. There are some things that you don't know until you try. When Brigitte Lin played the role of Fan of Clouds, there was a lot of criticism, saying that she had never acted in a stage play. How did she come to power? As a result, she acted very well later. There are also Li Liqun, Little Swallow, Aya and Bo Xueliang, all of whom have cooperated with me and have performed well on the stage. " Finally, Lai Shengchuan said that he thinks that the quality of an actor depends on how the director mobilizes his own energy and advantages, and on the other hand, he should convince the audience that these artists who have made achievements in the variety industry have actually accumulated a lot of energy and just need to find a suitable way to release it.