Dai Nghia creates a strong attraction with the villain role of Huynh Cong Ly

Artist Dai Nghia performed brilliantly in the role of villain Huynh Cong Ly

The Vietnamese historical play "The Great General Le Van Duyet - The Man with 9 Death Sentences" (author Pham Van Quy, script editor: Vo Tu Uyen, director Hoang Duan) is causing a fever for tickets for two shows on April 21 and 28 at the Youth Cultural House.

In particular, if Dinh Toan's role as Le Van Duyet creates attraction under the brilliant transformation of an artist who has a heart that loves Vietnamese history, Dai Nghia's villain role as Huynh Cong Ly is no less attractive.

The very real and topical exchanges between Huynh Cong Ly (Dai Nghia) and Le Van Duyet (Dinh Toan) received much applause from the audience.

What the audience and experts highly appreciate about Dai Nghia's extremely serious work capacity is that he concentrates highly to deeply express the character's personality. Originally a charming MC, a comedian with the ability to improvise and create lively laughter, but when playing the role of Huynh Cong Ly, he does not make people laugh indiscriminately. He is serious with each line, even though there are many layers of acting, he can freely express himself because of the character's greedy and brutal personality in front of the personal benefits achieved.

However, Dai Nghia had restraint, not showing "naturalism" to make the role beautiful in the eyes of the audience and worthy of applause after each action, gesture, and line.

Artists Dai Nghia and Thanh Anh in the play "Duke Le Van Duyet - The man with 9 death sentences"

The main character's charm lies in the very real dialogues between two characters at two extremes: good and evil. Dai Nghia's Huynh Cong Ly is therefore a necessary addition to the climax, where the character Le Van Duyet condemns tyranny, corruption, and injustice, winning the people's trust to a convincing level.

In terms of character art, Dai Nghia has reached a new level, reigning in hatred when he played the villain but was praised. Viewers were excited because they knew the fate of Huynh Cong Ly would be judged by Le Van Duyet, but they waited to predict and ponder Dai Nghia's performance. From there, they admired the intelligence in the way he handled the dialogue, the emphasis, and the emotional levels of the character who was the father-in-law of King Minh Mang, unable to believe that one day he would be judged by the Left Army Le Van Duyet.

Huynh Cong Ly's oppression of innocent people and embezzlement of public property, portrayed very well by Dai Nghia, partly summarizes the degradation of a group of corrupt officials in contemporary society that need to be punished.

In the journey of more than 100 years of formation and development of Vietnamese drama, many villain roles have become trademarks and this has also helped artists gain prestige when receiving roles from directors. For Dai Nghia and Dinh Toan, this Vietnamese historical play by IDECAF Drama Theater is an opportunity to shine.

Huynh Cong Ly was sentenced to death by General Le Van Duyet.

Villains are often the fates that create conflicts. They are the opposite of the protagonists, representing the problems of betrayal, injustice and evil.

"I understand that playing a villain is not easy, it requires me to have a certain understanding of the character's life and society to be able to transform well. I want to reflect the hidden corners, the deep darkness in Huynh Cong Ly's heart. Through that, bring warning lessons to today's viewers, to have a clearer, deeper view of history. And the positive thing is to aim at the community's life with good things, to love Vietnamese history and the work that we have worked hard to practice" - artist Dai Nghia expressed.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/dai-nghia-tao-suc-hut-manh-liet-voi-vai-phan-dien-huynh-cong-ly-196240412102440252.htm