pursue pleasure

pursue pleasure

Seeking pleasure is Meng Jinghui's dramatic work in 2014, which is adapted from Bertrand Russell's classic the conquest of happiness. The drama is starred by "Erding Yixiao drama men's group". The group is Meng Jinghui's drama studio, which is the first diversified art group spanning drama, music and performance art.

The play premiered in Beijing honeycomb theater in April 2014.

brief introduction

Directed by Meng Jinghui, Erding Yixiao men's drama troupe's first drama "seeking pleasure" is based on Russell's classic philosophical works. While absorbing nutrients from the original works, Erding Yixiao men's drama troupe also refocuses its eyes on daily life, and grabs 26 strange, weird and interesting things from life, but it is still a success Words that have no obvious connection with each other. In the performance, they deconstructed 26 words, integrated philosophical concepts into them, dramatized them, and made each word an extension of "happiness philosophy".

Content introduction

We are people who stand on tiptoe; we feel the speed, light and power of lightning; we also see the firmness and stubbornness of tall buildings. burst can only produce burst, now is the mirror covered by dust; as long as you wipe the dust, life can return to light. adapted from the classic works of Russell, the Nobel Prize winner in literature directed by Meng Jinghui stage design by Zhang Wu lighting design by Wang Qi Starring: Erding Yixiao men's Drama Troupe (Ding Yiteng / Ding Boxuan / Guan Xiaotian)

Main role

Ding Yiteng, a child, went to school in the slums of Philadelphia, America. He mixed up with black people and tramps. He was obsessed with black American culture and had a great interest in rap. After returning to China, he devoted himself to psychology and pedagogy, but inadvertently stepped on the stage of drama. He is keen on performance, and writes songs for every friend. His explosive creative enthusiasm attracts people's attention, and he has a unique personal performance style. Ding Boxuan, Haidian eccentric, graduated from high school, with language disorder. Seemingly dull and honest, but actually honest and dull, crazy love performance, and take this as a lifelong goal. His performance is rough and unconstrained, with Stanislavsky's magma jet performance style. He is a pure and extreme actor. Guan Xiaotian, super fat man. Since childhood malnutrition, frail and sickly, after the body rebound, out of control. He is studious and versatile. He has learned bel canto, played broadcasting and performed. He can master all kinds of musical instruments. He is also a senior carpenter, a certified chef and a third-class electrician. His rich experience endows him with inner calm on the stage.

Appreciative Remarks

From philosophy to dixie'er (excerpt) Author: beixiaojing the three of them have completely different temperament, showing the ambiguous educational background of Mo Ling. However, in less than ten minutes, I was attracted by their performance, and their breath was extraordinary fit, unified and fluent! Their appearance, tearing our suits and pretending, turned the show into a scene of mice watching cockroaches. there's no trace of performance on them. If the actors from the performance departments and classes of various colleges come to perform. The same story, there will be many tricks, but it will lose the present from the street, from the gutter, from the lack of confidence, from the panic caused by too much effort, from the pause caused by too much tension The temperament of a woman. It can be seen that the drama on the stage grew out of the bodies of the three of them! It was this groundless, fresh, passionate performance that dragged me from the audience into the gutter and let me see the dust of life. I guess it's director Meng Jinghui's new experiment that the three actors come together to form a smooth performance. It's not easy to experiment with actors. Some schools encounter no schools, and some experience encounters experience beyond experience. How to bring them into a unified way of performance, how to maximize the strengths of each of them, we can imagine that this process will be full of difficulties. I admire the director's boldness.

Performance status

From April 10 to 27, 2014, Beijing honeycomb theater premiered. from May 3 to 8, 2014, Shenzhen Children's Palace Theater performed. from July 30 to August 17, 2014, the pioneer theater of Shanghai Yihai theater performed. from September 30 to October 19, 2014, Beijing honeycomb theater.