Chapter 15 Lively
On November 8th, the campus of the Central Academy of Drama seemed to suddenly become lively.

The senior students who rarely stayed on campus before seemed to be called on this day and returned to school without any prior arrangement.

Because this day is the day of the annual performance of the Central Academy of Drama's acting class.

When the Central Academy of Drama was first established, it was positioned as a research-oriented institution, but as time went by, the acting major has gradually become the school's most important major.

As the school pays more and more attention to the performances of the freshmen in the acting class, it has gradually become a very lively program.

Not only will the dean come to watch in person, but senior students will generally not miss it.

The former may be to see the skills of the freshmen, while the latter may be to see the looks of the younger students.

The performance was held in the Experimental Small Theater of the Central Academy of Drama. When Liu Zhou arrived, the four or five hundred seats were almost full. Liu Zhou found a seat in the last row by the aisle and sat down.

As time passed, more and more people filled the small theater. When there were no seats left, many people stood at the back.

At this time, a tall man sitting in the front row of Liu Zhou suddenly stood up and waved to the back, shouting:
"Lao Gao, here."

Liu Zhou took a closer look and realized that this tall man was the one who contributed to the birth of the Blade-Stabbing Sect in later generations.

Of course he wasn't the one who stabbed someone in the back, he was the one who was stabbed in the back!
Yin Xiaotian's bright future was cut short by a knife. You should know that he was rated as one of the four most handsome young men in mainland China at that time.

After a while, a boy with long hair, small eyes, double eyelids that looked like single eyelids, and messy clothes like a rock star came over, followed by a tall girl.

"There are so many people today. Fortunately, you saved seats for us. This performance is much more lively than ours." said the long-haired man.

Yin Xiaotian smiled and said:

"You know that all the girls in the acting class this year are extremely pretty. It's a rare opportunity, so everyone should come and take a look. Even Duan Long, the most diligent student in the class, is here."

"I think he came here with Tao Hong, right?"

"What are you talking about? Can't I come and see my junior classmates?" Duan Long replied immediately.

Tao Hong didn't care, but smiled and said to the long-haired man:

"Gao Hu, this person next to you isn't your girlfriend, is she?"

"No, this is a friend of mine who is in the acting training class at the school next door and is in the same class as us." Gao Hu waved his hand and hurried to clarify.

"Hello, my name is Wang Tong."

"Hey, I know you. You worked with Lao Gao in "Summer in Beijing", right? You played Chen Xiner, right?" Yin Xiaotian said in surprise.

"Yes, I didn't expect that the small role I played could be remembered by people." Wang Tong was quite happy. It seemed that he was no longer an invisible person.

"Your role is not a minor one, you should be the second female lead, you have more scenes than Lao Gao."

"Don't talk yet. I'll introduce you to each other first, and then you can talk after the performance." Gao Hu interrupted them.

After Gao Hu gave a brief introduction, he sat down and considerately asked Wang Tong to sit next to him, while he sat next to Yin Xiaotian.

Liu Zhou who was sitting behind him didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that some of the most famous people from the 94 acting class of the Central Academy of Drama were actually sitting in front of him.

Before Liu Zhou was reborn, the one who had developed the best among these people was undoubtedly Duan Long, who was relatively taciturn at the time.

He is a well-known drama maniac in the industry and a representative of the acting school.

However, Liu Zhou noticed that he often stole glances at Tao Hong, so he thought that the rumor that he liked Tao Hong during college should be true, but he didn't know whether it was true that he changed her name.

Tao Hong was originally the most famous among the few. At that time, he had gained a certain fame due to his participation in Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days", and later almost won the Grand Slam of mainland film awards.

Coupled with the support of TV dramas, she became very popular among the people, and only gradually retired after she married Xu Guangtou.

Liu Zhou also had a very good impression of her, and her role as the Little Dragon Girl of the East China Sea was also a classic on the screen.

But later on, he didn't expect that she was involved in a pyramid scheme, and he also heard that she and her husband were having separate affairs, which shattered Liu Zhou's perception of her.

Yin Xiaotian originally had a bright future in the entertainment industry, but his career was ruined by the actress who played Su Meng, who was only good-looking, and he never played a leading role again.

It was more than ten years later that Liu Zhou heard from him again, when he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor, which caused some waves at the time.

As for Gao Hu, he was originally developing quite well and had good acting skills. Although he was not very handsome, he was also very distinctive. It was just that he was asking for trouble and got involved in things he shouldn't have been involved in. In the end, he hurt himself and never got back on his feet.

I have also heard of Wang Tong, Liu Zhou and other later generations. She is also very magical.

She was admitted to Beijing Dance Academy in 88, and joined Oriental Song and Dance Troupe in 92. She is an absolutely professional dancer. In 94, she enrolled in the acting training class of Beijing Film Academy. This year, she really gave up her career as a dancer and developed into the film and television industry.

In fact, the main reason she entered the acting class was because of the persuasion of her boyfriend Liu Jiang.

Her boyfriend is even more amazing than her. He is an undergraduate graduate of the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy, but he has never acted in any movie or TV series. He concentrated on photography, then screenwriting, and finally became a successful TV director. It can only be said that Beijing Film Academy is a place that produces directors.

He is also a very good director. The two dramas that made Huang Haibo popular, "The Good Times of Wife" and "Let's Get Married", were both directed by him.

After Huang Haibo got into trouble, he also spoke out publicly on his behalf.

Although Wang Tong has a husband who is a director and has good acting skills, she has never been very popular, probably because she is not pretty enough.

The TV series "Summer in Beijing" they mentioned just now is her debut work. She is the second female lead and Gao Hu is the fourth male lead.

This TV series still has good ratings within a certain range, and Gao Hu and Wang Tong have also retained some popularity among the audience.

But to be honest, this drama is used to promote the heroine. Even the male lead can't stand out too much, let alone them. But it is a good exposure opportunity for them at that time. If this drama was released in the early 21st century, it would be quite famous. Not to mention the female lead, she later switched to become a host. The male lead Huang Haibin, a male god in ancient costume, plus Gao Hu.

Even the husband of the heroine of "Love Is Not Blind" made a cameo appearance in the film and composed all the music, but at this time Chen did not appear as a member of a group.

This TV series can be regarded as an exploration of mainland youth dramas. Its techniques are not very mature. The more mature "Vacuum Love Record" to be broadcast next year will have a greater influence.

By the way, the second female lead in this drama is the wife of the male lead in “Love Is Not Blind”, and the second male lead is one of the four guardians of the “Stabbing Cult”.

At this time, TV dramas in mainland China are still in the exploratory stage and their production capacity is seriously insufficient. The next ten years will also be the fastest decade for TV drama development.

Liu Zhou was still silently wondering about the future lives of the people in the front row. The originally noisy small theater suddenly became quiet.

It turned out that the person sitting in the front row had arrived.

Liu Zhou saw the dean of the Central Academy of Drama, Xu Xiaozhong, the director of the teaching and research section, Bao Guoan, the head teacher of the acting class, Chang Li, and even Pu Cunxinxi and Song Dandan from the Beijing People's Art Theatre.

What surprised Liu Zhou even more was that his class teacher Huang Weiruo could actually sit in the first row. It seemed that he had underestimated Huang's status!

Liu Zhou knew that someone from the Beijing People's Art Theatre was coming, but he didn't expect that the people who came this time were these two current top figures of the People's Art Theatre.

Many people may not know that Song Dandan is also from the Beijing People's Art Theatre, and she is a direct descendant of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, having graduated from the theatre's own training class.

After the retirement of the older generation of artists at the People's Art Theatre, these two have become the backbone of the theatre.

With the arrival of important figures, the performance officially began.

The first program was a Peking Opera performance by Zeng Li and Yuan Quan.

Liu Zhou didn't know much about Peking Opera, but Peking Opera is the profound quintessence of Chinese culture. Although both of them had learned Peking Opera since childhood, their level was definitely not very high.

It seems that the two of them are still as Buddhist as they were in later generations, and don't know how to seize every opportunity to show their faces.

The next performer to come on stage was Zhang Ziyi, who performed a classical dance.

Without exaggeration or understatement, Zhang Ziyi is quite talented in dancing.

In addition, she was very beautiful when she was young, so Liu Zhou could clearly see some commotion in the audience from the last row.

When Zhang Ziyi finished her performance and was about to leave the stage, the boys in the audience clapped particularly enthusiastically.

The third program was the skit performed by Liu Ye and his friends. Liu Zhou was also watching the stage intently. As they walked onto the stage, Liu Zhou also felt a sense of nervousness as if he was being tested.

However, with the occasional laughter from the audience, Liu Zhou's heart was relieved. Now it seems that this skit should be a success.

At this time, Dean Xu Xiaozhong, who was in the front row, said to Chang Li:
“This skit is good.”

"It's really good. The three young people on the stage can perform like this, which is already very outstanding. What surprised me even more is that the script is very good. I wonder who among them wrote it." Song Dandan on the side continued.

When Chang Li heard the compliments from the two, he couldn't help but smile from his usually serious face.

"They really put a lot of effort into this skit, but the script was not written by them, but by Mr. Huang's students."

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Huang Weiruo was a little surprised and asked:
"I'm not sure, who wrote it?"

"It's Liu Zhou from your class!"

"Liu Zhou?"

"Yes, strictly speaking, he is the director of this skit. He has been staying in the rehearsal room of the acting class to instruct them on how to perform."

Of course Chang Li knew that Liu Zhou accompanied Liu Ye and the other two to complete this skit, and he was also deeply impressed by Liu Zhou, who majored in drama.

"I thought it was someone from level nine-three, but I didn't expect it to be this guy."

"From Teacher Huang's tone, it seems that he is very optimistic about this student?" Song Dandan asked.

"Indeed, he is also a freshman this year. He has written a short film script before and it was also very amazing. I think he is a very talented seedling."

"If he is a freshman, he is indeed very talented. We can let him take the entrance exam for Beijing People's Art Theatre. We are also very short of screenwriters now, especially talented young screenwriters." Pu Cunxi interrupted.

Unlike the film and television industry, where the status of screenwriters is very low, in Beijing People's Art Theatre, the status of screenwriters is very high, even higher than that of directors.

They have a screenwriting studio, which was founded by Mr. Shi Yizhi, a veteran artist of the People's Art Theatre. Although he is retired now, he still serves as the head of the screenwriting studio.

Beijing People's Art Theatre truly puts the script first!

Huang Weiruo was very happy to see that others were also optimistic about his students, and said with a smile:

"He still has a lot to learn, but I've talked to him before and he hopes to become a director in the future."

"I have also observed Liu Zhou. He is a man with many ideas. With his talent, I think he has a good chance of being successful as a director," Chang Li continued.

"Since you all think he is promising, then train him well and don't waste his spiritual energy," said Dean Xu.

After that, the few of them didn't communicate with each other anymore, but just focused on watching the performance on the stage.

Liu Zhou, who was sitting in the last row, didn't know that his name had already been registered in some people's minds.

(End of this chapter)