"The value of this play lies in its truthfulness and empathy. The daily life of ordinary high school students is very substituting. The class teacher, nagging parents, and funny tablemates. Many characters in the play can make people understand My heart smiled." The 2020 web drama "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" was commented and liked by the "People's Daily" in June of that year. From October 14th to 24th this year, the first work of the "Comedian League" label "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" will premiere at the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. During the media exploration activity on the 8th afternoon, the director He Nian revealed that compared to the TV series "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" on the stage, "the time is more condensed and the stage hypothesis is fully utilized."
Don't be friends with you" tells the story of Li Chengcheng, a high school student who has depended on his mother since childhood. Because of a fantasy trip 20 years ago, he met Li Qingtong, his mother in school days, and became friends with her. Because of the differences in times and personalities, the two made all kinds of jokes and joined hands to walk through the age of youth where sweetness and bitterness coexist. "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" delicately restores the common youth memories of the post-80s and post-90s generations. The actor Qian Fang was deeply moved by it, so he bought the IP of the work, and joined the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center and Joy Media, which has produced many comedy works, and invited many years of partner and friend He Nian to jointly plan the stage play " I don't want to be friends with you." This is the second collaboration between Qian Fang and He Nian after many years after the comedy "The Deer Ding Ji", "The Legend of Wu Lin", " Romeo and Zhu Yingtai " and " 21 Carats " which have been popular all over the country.
""I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" tells about the family relationship of children and adolescence. It is a hot topic in the current society. It can be linked with the experiences and memories of many audiences. The atmosphere of laughter and tears in the whole play is also related to me and He. I read the work I’ve worked with before.” Qian Fang said, “This drama is very special. The daughter is like a mother, and the mother is like a daughter. The daughter has a lot of incomprehensions about her mother. It’s not as bad as she thought.” She admitted that after she became a mother, she had a new understanding of parent-child issues."I am watching "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" now, and it feels completely different from when I didn't have children. The stage play has strengthened the relationship between mother and daughter."
"The stage play version has just been finalized. We screen the plot. , To make it more suitable for theater presentation.” In He Nian’s view, the heroine returned to 1999 with the idea of “I don’t want to be my mother’s daughter” because she didn’t understand her past mother, “Many people Other people’s parents get along well, but they don’t have a relationship with their own parents. "I Don’t Want to Be Friends with You" explores the parent-child relationship through a comedy plot." He Nian has a third-year son who said, "We don’t Too much like a father and son in the traditional sense, and more like a friend. I have always shown weakness to him and told him about my difficulties." Many years later, with my old partner Qian Fang, I tried comedy themes again. He Nian felt, "When I was young, I cared about the theater effect. , I like to see the audience laugh, and now I care more about passing on more cognition to the audience, hoping that they will still remember after watching the play one day, two days, or three days, and have some small impact on their lives."
At the beginning of 2021, Shanghai Drama Art Center and Joy Media have joined forces to create a brand-new creative "Comedian Alliance": with localized original comedy works as the core, it will provide a quality and character comedy experience for theater audiences across the country. The "Comedians Alliance" recruits talents and cultivates tomorrow's stars through the mature and systematic actor training system of the Shanghai Drama Art Center, combined with the career-up channels of Joy Media's full platform. The comedy label has He Nian as the artistic director. As the pioneering work of the "Comedians League", He Nian directed this original fantasy campus romance comedy "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" also attracted much attention.
Qian Fang, Zhou Ye, Liu Xuanrui and Wang Jiabao lead the starring roles. Most of the teams of "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" come from the Northeast, and there are many well-known comedians among them. Everyone said: The stage play version is not a copy of the TV play version, but through the professional stage play main creative team, using innovative ideas and techniques to condense the essence of the original play, while ensuring excellent quality content, it will bring the audience brand new Experience.
As the dark horse of the domestic youth drama, after the broadcast of "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You", many people sigh with emotion "the funny and teary Northeast flavor" and "that is our youth"."People's Daily" also commented, "The well-designed service channel creates a breath of real life, making the audience feel like they have come to a small town in the northeast of the 1990s to relive youth and growth." And most of the past are based on "love" as the main line. The intergenerational relationship between mother and daughter is the core of "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You". The friendship and love are the icing on the cake, which makes this drama richer and fuller. Li Chengcheng, who has traveled through the past, became classmates with his 17-year-old mother, and moved into her home as Faxiao, meeting her long-lost grandma and a grandfather she had never seen before. During the days with Li Qingtong's family, she understood the difficulty of her mother. Not only did she find the source of real-life problems, she also embarked on a road to self-healing.
Column editor: Shi Chenlu Text editor: Shi Chenlu
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Source: Author: Zhugeyi
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