Tran Luc re-enacts the play 'Tomorrow the sky will be bright again'

The work Tomorrow the Sky Will Shine Again - a script by the late author Dinh Xuan Hoa, published in 1957, has just been re-produced by People's Artist Tran Luc and LucTeam stage.

LucTeam's play Tomorrow the Sky Will Shine Again participates in the 2025 International Experimental Theatre Festival - Photo: LucTeam

The play will premiere on November 21 at the Ninh Binh Provincial Convention Center, during the 2025 International Experimental Theatre Festival.

LucTeam brings into this classic work the breath of the times, turning it into an experiment in the intersection between psychological reality and the Conventional - Expressionist technique that has become LucTeam's trademark.

Bringing Dinh Xuan Hoa back to his hometown Hanoi

Tran Luc said he decided to "rediscover" Tomorrow the Sky Will Rise Again because of his strong belief in the script's intrinsic value and eternal timeliness.

According to LucTeam's research, Tomorrow the Sky Will Rise Again is a famous play by Dinh Xuan Hoa. The play was first performed in 1959 and immediately received high praise for its content and form, creating much excitement and novelty for the public and critics at that time.

Tran Luc re-enacts a play by Dinh Xuan Hoa written in 1957.

Tran Luc found the script not at all outdated, but on the contrary, very modern because it touches on universal human issues that never go out of style: love, marriage, differences in life perspectives and family tragedies swept away by a money-driven society.

The story revolves around the dramatic marriage of a young couple who love each other dearly but are completely opposite in their views and ways of life.

Personal degeneration and social pressure turned the beginning of love into sin, broken and separated. Loc - the intellectual husband, and Van - the strong, playboy wife. They represent two opposite entities, tolerating each other until they explode.

The non-linear structure of the script, with the present (the daughter learning about the family tragedy through the lawyer's narration) and the past taking place in parallel, is a very modern structural element, far surpassing the popular "three-only" style of playwriting at the same time.

Because of the values ​​of the script, Tran Luc was determined to “bring Dinh Xuan Hoa back to his hometown – Hanoi”. Previously, his plays and films had never been released in his birthplace.

Tomorrow the sky will be bright again is a story for all time - Photo: LucTeam

When Tran Luc restrained his conventional techniques

With the play Tomorrow the sky will shine again , for the first time, director Tran Luc deliberately refrained from using conventional techniques. He chose a staging style that mixed realistic and conventional acting. The stage was minimalist and conventional. The only highlight was a wooden platform placed in the middle of the stage, assembled from simple planks.

This platform is a multi-meaning symbolic device: it is both a living space, a timeline (changing between the present and the past), and especially, a materialized image of the character Loc's inner world .

The podium became a symbol of home, dreams, impasse, and ultimately, brokenness.

When the conflict between the characters reached a climax, the wife decided to leave, Loc overturned each plank of the wooden platform, creating a pile of rubble on the stage.

Despite its highly experimental nature, Tomorrow the Sky Will Rise Again possesses the core elements to win over the mass audience. People's Artist Tran Luc and LucTeam have skillfully turned philosophical issues into an engaging story.

Scene from the play Tomorrow Will Be Bright Again - Photo: LucTeam

Author Dinh Xuan Hoa (1917-1983) was one of the few Vietnamese people to receive formal training in drama and cinema in France.

In 1937 he went to Saigon and founded the Nam Viet Publishing House in Saigon. In 1950 he went to France to study cinema and drama.

He wrote many scripts, many of which were adapted into plays and films. After 1975, Mr. Dinh Xuan Hoa continued to teach stage and film acting classes at the Ho Chi Minh City School of Theatre and Cinema.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tran-luc-dung-lai-vo-ngay-mai-troi-lai-sang-cua-san-khau-mien-nam-truoc-1975-20251116073734648.htm