October 7, 2019
VHO - There is a panel of stage researchers and critics presiding over 3 seminars to exchange between play creators and colleagues at the 4th International Experimental Theater Festival in Hanoi brought the art-makers many useful issues.
Right at the first seminar on 5 plays at the first stage of the Festival, the theatrical artists had a lively exchange, even arguing and straightforward opinion for each work.
Bpolar of Israel
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Pham Duy Khue, who chaired workshop shared his emotion when watching the first half of the 4th International Experimental Theater Festival: “The stage makers have really enjoyed a Art party which filled with two words "experiment", there are plays that have completely conquered colleagues from the script, the form of expression to the acting art of the artist. And I'm sure, with the successful test works of this festival, the audience will not be indifferent to the stage ".
The stage that depicts sensitive scenes like making love, even delicate human activities about going to the toilet ... but still finds it attractive; Watching Mr. Vanya of Youth Theater, the audience could hardly stand out with the characters on stage, we were drawn to live by the artists to live with the character's mood; It is hard to believe how to describe a mentally ill person without using verbal language, but the character's "madness" is portrayed to the bottom of the heart in Bpolar of Israel ... Those are the words to share from it was the "insiders" artist who went to see your colleague's work at the International Experimental Theater Festival.
Vanya of Youth Theater
In the five plays at the first stage of the Festival, colleagues and audience especially have a lot of love for two plays: Vanya of Youth Theater and Bpola of Israel. An artist of the Indian delegation shared: “The Indian theater has had many delegations building Vanya by author Anton Chekhov but indeed my country colleagues and I saw the direction of Vanya by director Sugiyama Tsuyoshi choreographing for Youth Theater of Vietnam is the best. The show cleverly combines classical theater and realism”. Refreshing a world classic script with modern theatrical staging thinking and with talented performers, Vanya has truly conquered the most demanding audience who are the artists. of Vietnam and the world. Director Sugiyama Tsuyoshi: “I do not want to address everything directly, but use the method of spacing, giving situations and through the effects techniques of sound, light, and images to lead the audience to feel, mingle with the character's mood and circumstances ”.
Korea's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Thai highly appreciated Vanya, she said that the show is global and touches the hearts of the audience when the author, director and artist force perform culture differently in each country to thinking to do art. “I especially liked the sex scene on the chair of two characters in the drama, Dr. Astrov and Ms. Elena. The scene was beautifully presented and below me and viewers could only shed tears of emotion… ”.
Director, People's Artist Giang Manh Ha expressed his admiration for Israel's Bpolar work, saying that the show showed the trend of making modern theater using 4.0 technology without using voice language but using body language with subtle processing from light, music, rhythm ...
More controversial than that, it was The Eclipse of the Young World Theater - Viet Lotus Theater. While Vietnamese artists think that this is a play that lacks experimentation, the directing is too old-fashion, the structure is not tight, making the string to express the character's psychology unreasonable, some foreign artists like India India, Greece proved to be interested in the combination of many art forms, especially the music of this play. Another show that also made waves because of its poor quality and lack of professionalism was Singapore's Temple of the Devil. Director, People's Artist Giang Manh Ha said that this was a play that the Festival's art board did not choose out of the 53 works registered to participate due to lack of experimentation, but because the last minute was probably due to the lack of Foreigners registered but did not attend, so the organizers decided to still let this show participate.
It is very effective to organize seminars to let creative stakeholders share ideas and exchange ideas from colleagues.
Between the successful trials and the unsuccessful trials, and even the works when viewed, there is no experiment ... Obviously, the most beneficiary is not the audience, but rather theater artists in general, Vietnamese artists in particular. The report of the Cultural Newspaper reporter at the first stage of this festival is that the International Experimental Theater Festival this time has not really attracted theatrical activists, especially the directors of Vietnam is very unfortunate. Hopefully, the next competition of the Festival will attract more creative resources of the stage. "You learn from friends rather than from teachers", the organizers have worked very hard to mobilize 22 works to participate in the Festival with the aim of motivating efforts, discovering new breakthrough styles of expression for the home theater, that is why the presence of creative stage actors is extremely important and practical even for the artist himself.
THUY HIEN - Culture Newspaper
