How to perform a double act

The double reed must have a scene table and chairs, its props in addition to the wake wood, handkerchiefs, folding fans used in comedy, there is a special headdress for the double reed: set on the head of the pigtails, usually with a rope loop tied to a small round bracket, with a single braid of a pestle, but there are also other styles of. Zhao Yiru played a double act with two small sheep horns braids made of green silk strips on the head and two braids on the ears. This may have been designed to suit different face shapes.

Double reed actor A (performer) make-up, first sitting on a chair behind the table, by actor B (rapper) will be nestled in the collar of his coat, revealing the neck, and then their own use of a large white block will be two eyes and mouth smeared with three large white, in order to see the head movements, facial expressions and language mouth type. While putting on his make-up, A took B for a hairdresser and said, "Just one man? I'll shave my face!" When he started to put on the big white color, he said, "Man is the clothes, horse is the saddle; West Lake scenery, with foreign films. It's not good if you don't clean up your face, but if you do--" B: "It looks good!" A: "Shabbier!" After smearing the white, put on pigtails and start performing.

There are different ways to put on makeup. For example, if Zhao Yiru performs double reed makeup, he presses the dabai into powder and rubs it into his face with his hands. This may be his face thin, deep eye sockets, with flat large white block there are places to wipe not on.

The performance of the double reed

The double reed in Chinese opera, mostly performed by comedians. Performed by two people, A and B. A make-up in front, simulating the movement of the mouth, called "front face". B raps in the back, called the "back". Traditional comedy is A wise and B stupid, double reed acting is the opposite, the loss is more A. Double reed actors on the stage, the first with the comic pad words paved the scene, A looking for baggage, B to support the comic. Sometimes the introduction of the founder of the double reed Huang Fuchen, said that the father in front of the performance, the son in the back of the rap, with which to find B cheap. Acting double reed began, the front face sitting on a chair behind the table, first to the audience grinning and squinting without a sound laughter, and then urgently convergence of the smile, a serious face, patting the wake up wood to the signal, the back of the rap, the front face to learn the movements of its mouth, the term is called "Fat Tuo Sell like". And then a small performance, deliberately reveal the cracks to find a joke to catch the baggage, A stand up from the table to reveal B. The two say a few lines to each other. The two say a few words to each other, and then learn the double reed.