Chapter 115 expensive pause

It was reported that several performing groups in Beijing and Shanghai will perform Anton Chekhov's plays.I think it's a gospel.The impetuous world needs fresh art to help clear it up.All of Chekhov's works, including novels and plays, run through an eternal theme, that is, anti-vulgarity.At the moment when vulgarity is ostentatious and inflated, Chekhov's works are definitely precious spiritual resources. Chekhov's works generally belong to the category of realism. The stage rhythm set by his plays is the natural rhythm of life itself, but his realism surpasses classical realism. Taking the set rhythm of his plays To me, it is a bit like the later modernist artists who moved the toilet into the exhibition hall, which has actually subverted the traditional drama, and is quite avant-garde in its bones.

Chekhov's scripts are beautifully written, like prose poems, and are very readable; as for their playability, those who know a little bit about the drama history of his time will remember it, because they lack the "dramatic conflicts" that were usual in his previous stage performances. ", and there are no weird scenes or characters, but the most normal life and characters are shown. Therefore, the first performances of his plays are often big failures.Like the premiere of "The Seagull", the audience booed impatiently before the performance was over. Chekhov, who was watching in the corner of the theater, slipped out of the theater and walked along the river bank in the cold wind for a long time. exacerbated lung disease.Some historians say that his untimely death was directly related to the blow of this failure.

In fact, the rehearsals of his plays are all the most outstanding artists, such as Danchenko, Stanislavsky, etc., but after one or even two or three failures, the audience can finally accept his plays.But once it is successful, it is not an ordinary success. The audience will stand up and applaud after feeling refreshed and refreshed. There is often such a stage cue in Chekhov's plays: pause.Mostly this pause is placed in the middle or at the end of the lines of a character with a rich heart and a noble personality.Both Danchenko and Stanislavsky once said that the key to the success or failure of director Chekhov's play is to handle the pause well; The process, with a natural pause, is the highest state of acting; and for the audience, feeling an unspeakable poetic rhyme in such a pause is the enjoyment of ecstasy.

To say that the boundary between vulgarity and elegance lies in whether they understand it or not, and whether they can enter the realm of poetry. This is relatively easy for people to accept, but there is nobility beyond elegance. This nobility does not refer to material wealth, but what we often say In a sense, whether the spiritual aristocrat’s nobility has entered the category of nobility, and the boundary, in a sense, is to see whether the soul will have a life rhythm that stops consciously—this point, I’m afraid not everyone can understand it that's it. The conscious pause of the mind will result in a temporary suspension of language and a temporary cut off of communication.During that pause, not only chewing on the poetry in nature and life, but also thinking deeply about the tragic injustice in society and life, being deeply wary of vulgar devouring people, and sinking into the "almost nothing tragedy" for the beautiful yearning The grief and indignation in the heart, the horror and sigh of the unfathomable human nature, and the persistent questioning of the ultimate meaning of existence...

García Márquez, a Colombian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, spent several years on a "literary strike". In order to express political protest, then, is it not in the hands of your enemies that you stop writing?But I later understood that this strike was actually his noble pause. In such a conscious spiritual adjustment, he raised his cognition of society, life, the universe, and truth to a more poetic state. Restarting the cardinal of language and behavior, then the text and state presented will definitely make people admire and respect. People my age rarely go to bars.That day a pair of young friends mobilized me to go to a bar with them. They have small cars, which are easy to move around. Broaden my horizons.Later they took me to three places and entered seven or eight bars.Everywhere I went, they enthusiastically reminded me to pay attention to the decoration features and the general atmosphere. Of course, I followed their instructions to appreciate them one by one, but they always felt that I was a little absent-minded.After we got into the car again, they said that there are so many houses, but there is no one where you would like to sit for a while?I said that after comparing, I think there is a good one, so I might as well go and sit more.Which one they asked?Why do I like it?

When I mentioned the name, they were puzzled, saying that the decoration of the house was very ordinary, and the atmosphere was not so elegant.I told them that every time I go to a house, the most careful observation is the guests inside, some of them are full of rich people, laughing and joking; Most of them were discussing deals in groups; some only saw depressed people drinking alone... and the one I liked, although I only sat there for about 20 minutes at the time, I found that there were mostly two or three people chatting at small tables nearby.And the most wonderful thing is that I found that several groups of interlocutors had a natural pause. The pause may only be a minute or two, but their faces looked very peaceful, and there was an indescribable charm in their tranquility. He is a frequent visitor to that bar, and he can attract customers who know how to pause for a long time. It can be seen that his taste is above average... Later, the pair of young friends went back and forth without hesitation, and drove to find the bar. Talking with pauses, during that time, unknowingly, they all became characters in Chekhov's plays.