The drama "The Crossroads" produced by the National Grand Theatre is about to usher in the fifth round of performance. Huang Ying, the young drama director who directed the play, said in the dialogue with the leading actors held on the 15th, "The stage itself has unlimited possibilities. Here, it will become a editing platform. Between light and shadow, our actors will have a dialogue with the former screen classics." The drama "The Crossroads" is another work tailored by the National Grand Theater for its theatrical actors in the small theater after "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Birds" and "Looking West at Chang'an". Dong Wenliang, who has just won the 2022 "Honorary Artist of the National Grand Theater", will play the leading actor "Lao Zhao" in the play, and Xu Zixuan, Li Zhaoyang, Fengyang, Yu Mengchao, Liu Beibei, Wang Wenjie and other original people will also reunite on the stage to retell the classic film story with a full and solid performance. In the activity on the afternoon of February 15, the main creators concentrated on displaying the highlights of the play. The melody of "In Spring" reverberated in the rehearsal hall, and four unemployed young people appeared one by one. In the low ebb of life, everyone had different choices. In Huang Ying's view, the loss of the future and the confusion of life are the common distress of urban youth, and the answer given by the film "Crossroads" is: do something meaningful and move forward! Huang Ying has done a lot of preliminary work and deeply studied the background story and social situation of the film "Crossroads". Among them, the life trend of each creator in the old film deeply touched him. "Why write about the creator's past life and present life? Because I found that there is a reason for the greatness of this film. The real life of all the main creators who participated in the film in front of and behind the scenes is to practice the theme that the film itself wants to convey: no matter what kind of hesitation and confusion at that time, they will move forward firmly, live in accordance with their ideals, and maintain youthful vitality, which is also my" Crossroads " To express. " Drama is the art of time and space. How to link classic old movies and drama art, the drama "Crossroads" gives a very new answer. The drama "The Crossroads" breaks down the narrative logic of the film, and the bottom screen of the stage plays the role of projection screen. The image of the old film is projected on it, either on the bank of the Huangpu River or on the street scene of the Republic of China, and the actors can even wear in and out. On the stage, the actors will take part in the camera work and shoot the segments being performed in real time, including facial features and action details. "I have made several plans and attempts, and finally think that we need to change our thinking when making the adaptation of old films, that is, we should not only perform in a space by real people, but also take this space and all the content of the performance as material, and take the stage as a editing platform." Huang Ying said. This is not the first time that the drama director has used the "montage" on the stage in his works. As early as 2011, this creative technique has taken shape. Later, such attempts can be seen in "Flower as scheduled" and "Dreamwalker". In addition, the important props of the drama "The Crossroads", the clang car, also impressed many audiences. In the gray and white old image of old Shanghai, people of all kinds got on and off the car, and the "green" became full of