老舍剧作的精品意识与中国话剧事业的振兴

The Quality-oriented Spirit in Lao She's Works and the Retrieval of Chinese Drama

话剧这一外来艺术形式在中国经历了百年沧桑。百年史程,涌现出一批伟大的剧作家和杰出的剧作,老舍连同他创作的精品剧目是其中优秀的代表,曾经在世界文学艺术史上铸就过辉煌。长期以来,话剧作为“大众文化”,曾是人们“喜闻乐见”的艺术品种,却在电子信息化时代遭遇巨大冲击和挑战。一度的剧坛冷寂和缺乏精品,使已趋于“小众”的话剧,更趋“小众”。话剧危机是复杂的文化现象,话剧要走出生存的困境,根本出路在于话剧艺术自身的艺术审美之力——创作精品。重新审视和研究老舍的精品剧作创作,仍有挖掘不尽的人文内涵,老舍话剧创作的“精品意识”,对新世纪中国话剧事业的振兴仍有着十分重要的意义。

Drama, an ancient art, has undergone a long broken time during which galaxy of great dramatists and a great many outstanding works emerged. As the representative, Lao-she created the marvelous works for the art. For a long time, drama, as an art and literature for the masses, used to be a sort of art that people loved to see and hear, but met a shock and challenge in electronic times. The shortage of good plays and the no-applauding in drama drove the stage play which had become less popular to a much smaller group of people. The extinction of drama is kind of complicated culture phenomenon. However, the only way to come out of the difficult position is to find out the drama's own power of aesthetic judgement, say good-works' creation. Looking closely at and study about Lao-she's selected-plays, there's no limit for the beauty of the humanity however. The quality-oriented spirit of Lao-she is of great importance for the retrieval of Chinese drama in the new century.