三江会馆梨园社大型越剧《祥林嫂》首次演出回顾

Dec 10, 2021 | 三江会馆梨园社, 精彩回顾

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越剧《祥林嫂》剧情介绍
经典越剧《祥林嫂》,根据鲁迅小说《祝福》改编。写祥林嫂年轻守寡,婆婆在重债逼迫和卫老二的怂恿下,将她卖给山里猎户贺老六为妻。祥林嫂不愿再婚,逃至鲁四老爷家帮工,数月后被卫老二发现,抢至山中与贺老六成亲,婚后生子阿毛。不久,贺贫病而亡,孩子又被狼叼走,祥林嫂只得重回鲁家帮工。但因她两次守寡,被认为不祥之物,深为主人所厌恶。祥林嫂畏惧死后受罪,遂将积蓄两年的工钱,到土地庙捐了门槛,以赎“罪孽”。然仍被鲁家撵出,沦为乞丐,终于在一个除夕之夜,倒毙在风雪之中。
《祥林嫂》以鲜明的时代风貌和浓郁的乡土气息,为越剧开辟了一条新的道路,并且赋於它以新的生命,被舆论界称为“新越剧的里程碑”。该剧越韵雅致、旋律优美、剧情紧凑、高潮迭起,运用戏曲唱、念、做的功能,把祥林嫂被神权折磨所受的内心痛苦,生动形象地体现出来。越剧袁派代表作《祥林嫂》,成为上海越剧院保留的四大优秀剧目之一,饮誉海内外。
这次为让新加坡观众感受到这出优秀经典越剧的精彩,三江会馆会长李秉蘐博士亲率三江梨园社倾情演出,由新加坡戏曲学院胡姬花奖和全球越迷嘉年华兰花奖得主李丰领衔主演。

(时长约2小时30分钟, 包括15分钟中场休息。附中英文字幕)
 
Synopsisof Yue Opera “Xianglin Sao”
A classic Yue opera revised based on Lu Xun’s novel “New Year Blessing”.  The play is about Xianglin Sao who became a widow at a young age.  Heavily in debt and incited by Wei Laoer, her mother-in-law sold her to He Laoliu, a hunter living in the mountain, as wife.  Unwilling to remarry, Xianglin Sao fled to the residence of Master Lu and worked there.  Few months later, she was discovered by Wei Laoer and was snatched to the mountain area to marry He Laoliu.  After married, she gave birth to Ah Mao.  Soon, He Laoliu died of illness and poverty, and her child was dragged off by a wolf.  Xianglin Sao can only return to Lu residence to work.  As she twice becomes a widow, her master deemed her to be ominous and despised her.  Afraid to suffer in hell after death, Xianglin Sao uses her two years of hard savings, and donates to the temple to make doorsill to redeem her “sin”.  However, she was still driven out of Lu residence and became a beggar.  Finally, she died on a windy snow on the night of New Year’s Eve.
With its distinctive style of the times and strong local flavor,《Xianglin Sao》opened up a new path for Yue Opera and endowed it with new life, and it is called “The milestone of New Yue Opera” by the media.This opera play has an elegant Yue rhyme, beautiful melody, story plot is compact with frequent upsurge scenes.  Using the functions of singing, reading, and doing in traditional opera, the inner pain suffered by Xiang Lin Sao is vividly reflected.As the representative work of Yuan school of Yue opera, 《Xianglin Sao》has become one of the four outstanding plays retained by Shanghai Yue Opera Academy and is well-known at home and abroad.
This time, to let Singapore audience feel the brilliance of this excellent classic Yue opera, Dr. Li Bingxuan, President of Sam Kiang Huay Kwan, personally led Sam Kiang Chinese Opera Troupe to put on a heartily performance, and starring Li Feng, the winner of Orchid Award of The Singapore Chinese Opera Institute and Orchid Award of Global Yue Fan Carnival.
(The duration is about 2 hours and 30 minutes, including 15 minutes of interval. With Chinese and English subtitles)



《联合早报》报道
经典剧目的本土演绎 ——观越剧《祥林嫂》

文 / 傅翀
发布 / 2021年10月21日 5:00 AM

自从上个世纪中叶,鲁迅的短篇小说《祝福》搬上越剧舞台后,不仅剧中的祥林嫂成了中国越剧名伶袁雪芬的代表角色,这部现代戏也成了久演不衰的剧目。由于时代背景和观众偏好等缘故,这出戏在本地上演应该是第一次。
生逢其时与生不逢时
今年恰逢鲁迅诞辰140周年,本地不见特别的纪念活动,即使在文化圈内也仿佛疏于关照。三江会馆属下三江梨园社新排的经典越剧《祥林嫂》,不妨被视为是对这位在现代文学史上影响深远的文豪的一种怀念。
虽说本地观众对现代戏接触不多所以接纳度有限,越剧在本地也不是有广泛群众基础的剧种,但由于人们对中华戏曲表演形式的喜爱,加上越来越多江浙一代新移民的支持,当天剧场演出的效果整体看还是令人振奋的。台上台下共度三个小时,一起重温鲁迅笔下的故事。

《祥》的公演,对纪念鲁迅诞辰来说生逢其时,可对于变幻莫测的疫情来说,这个戏又有些生不逢时了。
疫情暴发后,海外剧团无法来新献艺,正好给了本地剧团展现魅力的时机。但是,从去年提议到今年演出,排练时须要面对各种严格的防疫措施,还得随时根据疫情做出调整,甚至暂时中断排练。这对任何剧团来说,都并非易事,何况还是由来自各行各业兼职演员组成的戏曲团体呢?
冠病确诊人数陡然上升之时,总理发表电视讲话之日,《祥》的大幕如约开启。这场在大疫之中的现场演出,对观众也是一种考验。剧场外致贺的礼篮不少,剧场内观剧的来宾更多。难怪身旁有人戏称“今晚来看戏的对越剧绝对都是真爱”。

忠于经典,谨慎创新
袁雪芬的越剧电影与其爱徒方亚芬的越剧《祥》早已珠玉在前,从舞美到表演,想要有所突破恐怕空间不大,挑战不小。剧组选择的是一条比较安全而讨喜的道路——尽量忠于经典,全体演员都以谦虚谨慎的态度向名作致敬。
作为主角,祥林嫂每一场戏都有重要唱段,这很考演员的功力。这一次祥林嫂的扮演者李丰,除了在唱上下功夫,在表演上也仔细揣摩了人物情绪。扮演贺老六的男演员虽然看得出舞台经验还不丰富,但是越剧男小生本身就值得鼓励,也难为他尽心塑造出淳朴善良的猎户。配角戏份不多,唱念和表演却毫不含糊,卫老二的市侩奸猾,祥林娘的可怜可恶,都惟妙惟肖。作为没有唱段的小角色比如老孔、阿花等串演多人,那份为全剧奉献的热忱更令人钦敬。
在演员的人数、行当和基本功等方面都有不同程度限制的情况下,《祥》保留了剧中所有的经典唱段,对剧组来说是一项艰巨任务,对越剧迷来说是一种享受,对普通观众来说故事也更完整。
比如第三场《抢亲》很短,本来可以用过场戏表现,节约篇幅也节省置景费用,但依然保留下来了。其中《青青柳叶蓝蓝天》是全剧中祥林嫂最开心活泼的一唱段,与后面礼教对她的摧残形成鲜明对比,更突出了人物的悲剧命运。
第九场《问天》之后,祥林嫂含冤死在风雪中。剧院内却没有如期亮灯散场,幕布升起后是阿毛与贺老六、祥林嫂在另一个世界的相遇。现代的配乐和浪漫的色彩,用一种非传统戏曲的方式演绎了祥林嫂《问天》中“死去的一家人还能见面吗”的疑问。这慰藉了祥林嫂的灵魂,也让观众瞥见了编导的人文关怀。至于这种创新能否被戏曲观众接受,恐怕就见仁见智了。
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