The drama "February" was created by the famous drama director Li, composer, choreographer, lighting designer and costume stylist.
Fang Lu, Huang Wei, Qu Ning, and other powerful drama actors, together with the young actors of the National Theatre Drama Team, completed the rebirth of Rou Shi classics on the stage.
When the curtain opened, the stage of freehand brushwork followed the consistent style of Li's works in recent years, and there was no straightforward sign of time and space. There are only a few Chinese armchairs and a piano on the sloping stage, but a melodious piano music brings the audience to furong town.
Next to the piano, a pool of metal texture and the metal abyss in front of the stage enrich the meaning of the whole stage with soft and hard contrast.
Li, who advocates "pure drama", abandons fancy creative techniques and is extraordinarily simple from stage to performance.
In the play, Qiu Jian Jr., who is "like a yellow leaf falling on a long cloudy autumn cloud", is slow to be melancholy, but he is "anarchist" and constantly seeks his way. His arrival is like a stone rippling in a pool of water in furong town.
Xiao longed for a quiet life in this "Utopia", but because of the emotional entanglement between his lover and his widowed classmate Wen Sao, he was pushed to the forefront of public opinion in furong town.
In the criticism and rumors of the spectators, Wen Sao chose to end her life, left this "Xanadu" and joined the tide of the times. She also decided to go to Shanghai to find her lover after giving her true love.
Rou Shi's original works are short and pithy, with profound implications, while Li's narrative pays special attention to poetry, and at the same time emphasizes alienation in performance, which makes the audience get rid of the excitement of reading stories and more directly feel the author's thinking about the times and society.
Rou Shi's Little Qiu Jian is a typical image of a generation of literati and intellectuals. Grace Wai Wong, a young actor, performed delicately and created an image full of hesitation and strength.
In contrast, it is not so easy to interpret the role of Lan Tao, which is not only a bright color in the chilly spring, but also a poetic and cold style of the whole work.
Fang Lu broke the age limit, which not only explained the passionate girlish feeling of "I want to be good with you", but also had fearless courage and determination in the face of rumors, as well as sympathy and concern for the weak.