The Wave of Capital Coming to the Land "Beautiful Little Paris"

Drama 2015–04–28 Stealing Fire Troupe

Performance of the robbery troupe time 2015/04/25 19:30
Venue Tainan Cultural Center Original Theater

Text - Luo Qian

The play is intertwined with three stories. People from different social classes meet because of the construction of the small Paris community, young couples with beautiful imaginations about living, farmers who do not want to be expropriated and protesting loudly, and those who want to live Workers who work on construction sites, college students who want to be architects but truant to build houses on construction sites, and ladies and mistresses who live in luxury houses but live next to homeless people. Stories of community building projects. The directors and screenwriters tried to use their founding ideas to convert the issues that are taking place in contemporary times into scripts and stage them. How do ordinary people face and adapt to these changes under the continuous and rapid development of capitalism in modern society, trying to ease the absurd and miserable basis. , and witty performances are connected to the most basic living space issues of today's people, such as urbanization and housing justice.

The structure is divided into five parts: the beginning, the middle three and the epilogue. The set has the theatrical style of the German Expressionist films of the 1920s[1], and as soon as you enter the seat, you can feel the dark and grotesque atmosphere in the film "Dr. Caligari's Cabin" (1919). The stage layout is quite simple. The floor is covered with wooden laminates and painted in red, white and blue, which symbolize French nationality. The live musicians are placed on the left of the stage, and the "Paris" hanging above is decorated with light bulbs. The signboard represents the stage position of the Paris nightclub. Two red wooden box chairs are placed on the middle layer of the stage, and two white curtains are hung on the right side. Laminate, which is the visual presentation of the whole on the stage.

All five acts were staged in this space, which kicked off with the singing of the nightclub female singer, and the female singer announced that the sales slump of "Beautiful Little Paris" would soon be replaced by the sales of "Little Roman Community". Actress Tang Xuanrou led the audience briefly into the country of French and Italian music with her original singing ability training. This is actually a story in the eastern land of Asia, bringing out the critical strength that leads the audience to think and the expectation of living Do we have too much expectation and imagination for the West in our imagination? Aside from these advertisements and commercial marketing projects, what is the architectural imagination that belongs to the land, culture and climate of Taiwan?

The performance of the four actors can be said to be quite dedicated to the performance. In the Chinese actors Zhang Bo and Zhou Peikun, they saw a rare martial arts style in the theater, and they have lively limbs in the sections of the two chasing, chasing, fighting and running. flavor. It is a little regrettable that in the main scenes of the Chinese actors in the first and second acts, there are a lot of accents and accents, and it is almost impossible to hear their meanings, resulting in the important first two acts, unable to devote themselves to the plot. A bit alienated from the story that the actors are rehearsing. The language alienation of the previous episode made Miss Li cry out of guilt in Acts 4 and 5, and she couldn't empathize with her. Although actress Tang Xuanrou brilliantly interprets many different women The characters are laudable, but overall the tone makes for an unaccustomed experience.

The fly in the ointment is that the transitions and sound processing are too simple, resulting in a few blank pauses between the transitions between the scenes, as if once again temporarily jumping out of the theater, and realizing that the scene is being performed. Outrageous feeling. The background music or sound effects are slightly less. In the case that the overall set props are not moved and changed, more attention should be paid to the sound processing of transitions and cutscenes, so as to reduce the audience's keen attention to the transition moment without causing too much sense of off-screen.

The paragraphs of the shadow play are the most childish and humorous techniques. It really creates a number of different time and space replacement attempts that the director wants to present in the theater. From the stage of the Paris bistro on the left, The shadow play projection on the white curtain, the stage before the expropriation of the countryside, the costume change of the director and the college students, the construction site on the stage, the interior space after the construction, the return to the shadow play, the final attempt of the tavern space, in the play The boundaries between off-screen, real life, and the stage are also blurred, and finally "Beautiful Little Paris" is no longer just a black humor comedy. It does not make people laugh, but tastes a little bitter. "Beautiful Little Paris" reflects various projections of real life, always taking the bitterness and bitterness of life as a way of speaking with tsk tsk mocking and witty, and perhaps it is also a corresponding gesture for us to face life under the tide of capitalism.

Notes

1. Expressionism was originally a term used in art history and criticism, which means that it no longer regards nature as the primary purpose of art, and expresses emotions and feelings with lines, shapes and colors as the sole purpose of art. Quoted from "Chinese Encyclopedia Online" http://www.zwbk.org/MyLemmaShow.aspx?zh=zh-tw&lid=105988">http://www.zwbk.org/MyLemmaShow.aspx?zh=zh-tw&lid= 105988 (retrieved date 2015/4/26)

2015–04–28 First published on Performing Arts Critic