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The drama Romance performed by Jiangsu Huai Opera Troupe is based on Zheng's novel The Sun, directed by He Shouguang, Xu Hengbin and written by Song. It is a touching drama.

During the ten-year turmoil, a rural girl of 12 years old married an honest farmer Tian, who was 26 years older than her, in order to obtain the hukou and the right to food distribution. Eight years later, when Qiu Ping grew up, Dahan treated her like a sister and daughter. She was grateful to Dahan and had a deep friendship, but she fell in love with his nephew Tian Yuchun. The big man is full of contradictions, happy and painful. The elders in the family interfered and forced Qiu Ping to have sex with the man. Qiu Ping had to escape privately with Yuchun. ...

This is what happened, and you may see it in the countryside. Ten years of turmoil and sin, this almost child bride combination, young people's free love, the feudal thoughts and paternalistic style of the older generation, and the emotional connection between Dahan and his widowed sister-in-law that has been suppressed for many years, etc., do not have much strange flavor. However, odd marriage does have its own uniqueness. Miraculously, it has written a modern drama with mostly ordinary plots, and it is quite profound and full of social significance, especially the stirring turning point of emotional waves, which is very prominent.

Drama should be dramatic, but drama can never be simply understood as the conflict between good people and bad people, advanced and backward. In Strange Marriage, Qiu Ping, Tian Yuchun and other young people resist the "old man" similar to the patriarch in pursuit of true love, which is the essence of the anti-feudal struggle. But this is not the main factor to attract the audience. What really attracts the audience and becomes bold is the emotional contradiction between Qiu Ping and Tian Han. Two people have lived together for eight years. They are neither enemies nor infinite wealth. They are both kind and good people. However, the author writes that the contradiction between them is almost irreconcilable and natural. In the sixth scene, before they were about to break up, they both had a long solo to pour out their hearts. Really sad, expressing a very difficult, confused and painful complex mood, very touching.

The background of the profound contradiction between two kind people is the chaos of ten years' turmoil and the feudal patriarchal ideology that still exists today. This confusion caused this unreasonable engagement, and feudal thoughts (including gratitude thoughts) made it impossible to lift it. Therefore, the conflict between Qiu Ping and the big fellow, which should not exist, is essentially an indictment of ten years of turmoil and feudal thought. This is the profound strangeness of the idea of strange marriage. Finally, Qiu Ping and Yuchun were chased back. While waiting for a more severe fate, Dahan finally broke through the feudal net and joined hands with his widowed sister-in-law to recognize Qiu Ping as his daughter. The ending of the comedy is not forced at all. Because our present era is an era in which socialist ideology and morality constantly overcome feudal remnants, the ending of comedy is the true reflection of society.

Odd marriage wins by exploring and expressing emotions; It is touching because these two people have their own feelings. A play, emotion, if it only stays at the impersonal general level, it can only be an abstract emotion, which is hard to move anyway. Han's character is kind, sincere and simple, but he doesn't pay attention to learning and doesn't know what true love is. This is full. Qiu Ping's portrayal is slightly weaker than that of the big fellow, but it also shows the innocent and enterprising youth character that grew up after the downfall of the Gang of Four. It is a creative method that must be emphasized in the creation of modern drama, highlighting the characterization of characters and the carving of psychological feelings.

Of course, some parts of the play are still rough, for example, the rationalization and turning point of some plots sometimes seem simple. The words are a bit straightforward, but the implication of meaning and the aesthetic feeling of language are still lacking. The literary weakness of the play has been greatly enriched in the stage art, and the performance level of the play is quite high. Not only does it not lose the local flavor of Huai opera, but it is also good. For decades, Huai Opera has established its own tradition of directing. In this play, as well as in previous plays such as Bowling, the director's role-playing is clearly seen. In "Strange Marriage", in the third scene, Qiu Ping slapped him and kicked him out of the door. Then both of them regretted losing their voices inside and outside, singing songs of remorse. This is the turning point of the whole drama, and it is also the first big exposure of two people's hearts. If the director is bad, the next play will be even more difficult. The director is very capable. The stage scheduling, rhythm control and actors' performances of this scene are quite complete, which reminds me of the mother-daughter duet in the Shanghai opera Spark and the three knocks in the Sichuan opera Four Girls. I think it can be regarded as three legs. The scenes are similar and each has its own moving place.

The man is played by a middle-aged actor, while Liang is played by a young rookie. The scale and color of the performance are well mastered. Although Han's personality is simple, the emotional ups and downs given to him by the playwright are huge and complicated. If he is just like Qiu Ping's father and brother, he is not like a middle-aged unmarried man. If he is too eager to get close to Qiu Ping, it will weaken his quality as a sincere gentleman. When he knew that Qiu Ping had his heart set on Yuchun, he was painful but not angry, tolerant but not painful. His feelings for his widowed sister-in-law are even more subtle. The same is true of Qiu Ping: her distress is the contradiction between kindness and love, engagement and termination, and the contradiction between the habit of getting along for many years and breaking through this habit. A little relaxation will make her appear frivolous. The two actors performed very well, and their understanding and performance of the roles were relatively mature. The audience will feel very comfortable after enjoying such a performance.