Yuan Quan coaxed his daughter, who was awakened by the phone call just now, and was quite helpless.

Before, from Xu Rong's attitude, she had vaguely confirmed that Xu Rong should not recommend herself to star in "Home".

"Before Dawn" did make her come into the public's vision again, but Gu Yejia has too few scenes, and the few scenes between her and Xu Rong can only be regarded as acquaintance.

However, the phone call from Xu Rong just now caused her to get into conflict. She is still in confinement and her child is still young and cannot participate in rehearsals or performances.

Xia Yu tried the temperature in the bottle, and after he felt it was appropriate, he handed it to Yuan Quan and asked, "Whose phone number?"

"Xu Rong."

Xia Yu said in surprise: "I'm looking for you to film again?"

He didn't feel anything about his wife working with Xu Rong. When Xu Rong intercepted "North Wind", he felt a little uncomfortable, but the producer also came to the door to apologize and explained the reason.

As for the two invitations to his wife, he was even less worried because he believed in Yuan Quan. Besides, Xu Rong's reputation has always been very good in the circle. Even during the filming of the crew, he almost never instigated various dinners and drinks.

This is quite rare in the entire industry.

Yuan Quan said while feeding milk: "No, the People's Art Theater wants to re-arrange "Home", saying that he wants to invite me to play a role."

"Isn't this what you have been looking forward to?" Xia Yu asked in surprise. He also heard about the news of the establishment of "Home". It is said that it is a luxurious masterpiece of the three generations of the Chinese Art Theater. "Do you want to go?"

Yuan Quan shook her head with a wry smile, and looked at the child in her arms, but she didn't say anything more.

It is true that "Home" is indeed an opportunity that has not been seen in ten years, but she does not want to give up the time to accompany her children to grow up.

Xia Yu hesitated for a while and said, "I will have a meal tomorrow. Your situation is special. Can you wait until the confinement period is over and join the group."

"Forget it, there are still children."

"Isn't my mother still there? Besides, I'm not going to film in the group. I can't come back after half a month when I go there, and I can run back with just one step on the accelerator."

Xu Rong, who hung up the phone, was also quite helpless. When he was promoting "Before Dawn" in November last year, he also attended a meeting with Yuan Quan, but at that time, she didn't look like she was pregnant at all.

Now that Yuan Quan can't participate, who will take over the role of Gong Lijun after he quits the role has become the most important issue.

Next year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Art Theater Academy. There are many repertoires to be staged, not only new plays such as "Our Jing Ke", but also classic plays accumulated over the past few decades, all of which will be re-arranged on stage one by one. Some actors will play five or six plays by one, and the staff in the theater are already short of their reach.

Xiao Zhang came out of the bathroom with a cup of water, watered the potted plants in the house, and watered the shelf on the side of the door. While watering the one below, she said, "Teacher Xu, please help me move a chair in the kitchen. The two pots on it are too high and I can't reach it."

Xu Rong put down her cell phone, walked to the kitchen to move a chair, saw her barefoot, and said, "Why are you not wearing shoes?"

"When I was just picking up the water, I sprinkled my shoes wet."

Xiao Zhang stepped on the stool, finished watering, pulled off a yellow leaf and asked, "Teacher Xu, why did you leave after watching it during the rehearsal today?"

"Put on your shoes, the ground is cold." Xu Rong took out a new pair from the shoe cabinet. "I can't watch it. I have flipped through the script of "Our Jing Ke" several times. The book is a good book, but the performance is too bad."

Xiao Zhang frowned and asked, "Are you not good?"

"It's almost the same. Last year, I heard Mo Yan mention that the play "Our Jing Ke" is not for you to play Jing Ke, but for "We". This is a particularly typical drama that satirizes the present, so it must be performed according to contemporary people to resonate with them."

"But our costumes are all ancient clothes, and the scale is actually very difficult to grasp." Xiao Zhang didn't care about Teacher Xu's denial. The crew had just started to synthesize them, and she had only a few lines together. The poor performance was not good, and it had little to do with her.

Seeing Xiao Zhang's relaxed appearance, Xu Rong guessed what she thought roughly. She took the dead leaves she handed over, walked over and threw them into the trash can, looked at Xiao Zhang who ran into the bathroom again, and asked with a smile: "By the way, Xiao Zhang, Feng Yuanzheng said when did you let you play the role?"

Xiao Zhang's voice came: "No, he said, let me calm down and polish it slowly. When the time comes, he will arrange it."

Xiao Zhang was still a little emotional in his heart, because Song Yi was in the theater at the same time as her. In terms of performance experience, she was more, but now she is co-starring in a play, and Song Yi is the starring actor, and she is just a maid with few lines.

But today, after witnessing the torture of the Ren Yuan torture of Song Yi with her own eyes, she was no longer so looking forward to acting because if she didn't act well and was so tortured back and forth, she didn't know how to face it.

She suddenly poked her head out and said, "Teacher Xu, I let the institute mention it today. Our institute lost a lot last year. The review of the plays will be stricter in the future. Are they real or not?"

Xu Rong nodded and said, "What he said should be a small theater. Now there are basically few dramas in the theater that are playing in the experimental theater. They all rely on other dramas to supplement them."

The problem of small theater losses has become increasingly prominent since the performance subsidy adjustment last year.

Since 2008, with the increase in housing prices and prices, the cost of living in the capital has also increased rapidly. Although some actors are still in the yard, they cannot see people all year round. Some, although they are still in the yard and participate in the performance, they do not focus on the play.

As an actor, the production of TV shows and movies is not comparable at all.

If the film and television work is put into the same time, the profits the actors can get ten, hundred or even thousand times that of dramas.

In order to solve this real problem, after he proposed the "annual assessment system" last year, the theater increased performance allowances in order to make young actors focus on the play.

The appearance fee for the starring actors in the Grand Theater has increased to 1,500, and the small Theater has also mentioned 1,200, which means that even if the main actors in the theater have only one play, the basic salary and various subsidies can almost reach an income of more than 20,000 yuan in the month of the performance.

If you participate in more repertoires and the number of performances can be achieved, theoretically, there is a monthly income of 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. At present, this income is not small.

However, the increase in expenditure has brought new problems. As long as the attendance rate of the Grand Theater performs is careless, there is a very high profit margin. After all, even if the attendance rate of fifty is 50, you can still sell 500 tickets.

However, if the attendance rate of small theaters is not high, it will inevitably lead to losses.

Xiao Zhang walked over, sat on the sofa, and asked in confusion: "Then why did Happy Mahua and Meng Jinghui not lose? I heard that the pay they paid for actors is better than ours."

Xu Rong smiled and said, "Let me say that if the average ticket price is 500 yuan, one show can be sold for 25,000 yuan, and the actors' subsidy is only 10,000 yuan. In fact, one show will be profitable by 15,000 yuan. But after all, we are public institutions, and the subsidy for the difference in financial allocations has been a long time ago. When the director rehearsed, he would have to use more people, and the setting is exquisite and gorgeous, so he would never be simple. Even in a small theater, a small number of people would have to invest a show of about a million yuan, but more than a hundred shows can be performed and profitable are the few."

"Mahua and Meng Jinghui have put in this regard. I heard that their investment in small theaters is less than 150,000 yuan, which can basically ensure that every play can be made profitable."

"Then we can do it too?"

Xu Rong shook his head gently and said, "You said it's light, just say that the show you are currently performing is cut by half. If you don't talk about others, Ren Ming is the first to jump out to oppose it. It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it's difficult to go from extravagance to frugality."

He hesitated for a moment, thinking that it is not a solution to keep going like this, because if you lose money every year, the review standards are stricter or a trivial matter. What he is afraid of is blind compression for profit. Performances in small theaters test the actors' skills in comparison, because during performances, the distance between the actors and the audience is calculated in centimeters. Any subtle expressions and actions of the actors will fall into the audience's eyes in no way, which will have a great effect on improving the actors' professional level.

This presentation method should not be gradually reduced due to profit and loss issues.

After slid out with Xiao Zhang for a day, he fell and felt pain. After Xu Rong didn't rest much and came to the yard, he had to tell Zhang Heping about Yuan Quan.

Zhang Heping had no objection to this, but it was just a few days later, and there were objective reasons for it.

During a chat with Zhang Heping, Xu Rong raised the issue of the loss of the small theater and said, "Dean, I heard that our small theater has been losing money. If you want me to watch it, why don't we also play producers?"

The drama producer system is no longer a new thing in the domestic drama industry. It has been in the Chinese dialect for more than ten years. Specifically, a dedicated person is responsible for his own profits and losses.

Once you make money, the big-headed producer can distribute it at will. If you lose money, the producer will also bear the losses.

Zhang Heping's smile gradually faded, and he sighed, "I haven't considered this matter. It's hard to do it. Everyone will be happy if you make money. If you don't make money, you'll be fooled. But don't forget that producers can do everything to make money. Just like Meng Jinghui's drama, it mainly takes funny as a selling point. Mahua can't say anything. If we do that, we are smashing our own signature."

Xu Rong said: "Then we can do a pilot project, requiring our producers to be the ones who are more familiar with tradition and have the ability to distinguish the plays. They generally know which plays can be played and which ones cannot be played, such as vulgar content, inadequate artistic quality, politically out of the circle, or those who are completely funny and far from our basic artistic style will definitely not be mentioned. Of course, the review process of the art committee must not be missing, otherwise some people can do anything to make money."

Zhang Heping lit a cigarette and said, "What you said is not without drawbacks. What if they look for idle stars to act? You must know that the cost of drama is actually very low, but the profit rate is not low at all. Even in a small theater, as long as the actors participating in the show are strong enough, our own actors may not be able to act in the show at that time."

"Then our pilot will only target small theaters, and we can set a limit. For example, for a crew, half of the actors must be ours."

"I'll consider it." Zhang Heping did not make a decision immediately, but said slowly.

"By the way, your office is ready. Do you want to go and have a look?"

Xu Rong knew that Zhang Heping was sending an order to expel guests and said, "Okay, thank you, the dean for being worried. I'll go over and take a look."

"Haha, go and go."

At noon, Xu Rong didn't solve the problem in the cafeteria. Xiao Zhang recently discovered several restaurants near the theater that were delicious, and she had already yelled to take him to try it.

After waiting at the door for two or three minutes, Xu Rong saw Xiao Zhang leading Song Yi over and asked, "Is Xiao Song with us?"

Song Yi was quite surprised when he saw Xu Rong waiting at the door. Zhang Xiaofei just said to take her to eat, but did not say he wanted to be with Xu Rong at all.

In her sense, Xu Rong is not a person who is easy to get along with. From the time she entered the hospital, she has had a few fights, but she has been trained three times.

But I have come here, so it is hard to find excuses to leave at this time.

"I tell you that the noodle shop is very side by side, the store is also very small and old, but it tastes delicious. Anyway, you will know when you go later."

Xu Rong looked at her in surprise and asked, "Then how did you find out?"

Xiao Zhang smiled and said, "I can hear it from afar."

Xu Rong was speechless about the natural reasons that Xiao Zhang had. Her talent was really unparalleled.

"Catch thieves, catch thieves."

I followed Xiao Zhang into the same room. As soon as I turned a corner, I heard two sharp shouts.

The two women in their twenties were shouting, and in front of them, two young men wearing baseball caps were each carrying bags and running towards the three of them.

Xu Rong and Xiao Zhang took a look and immediately made way and stood close to the wall, because the two thieves also noticed them. While running over, the first one took out a bright dagger from their waists.

Xiao Zhang looked at Song Yi who seemed to be frightened and hurriedly pulled him over.
Chapter completed!