西方现代派戏剧在中国之命运

The Fate of Western Modernist Drama in China

西方现代派戏剧在中国经历了两起两落的过程。五四前后导入、传播和兴起 ,到30年代衰落 ;80年代再度传播和复振 ,到 90年代式微 ,其中历史经验和教训十分深刻。选择、过滤和消化之后 ,才会形成特色。田汉、曹禺等人为代表的诗化现实主义流派 ,代表中国话剧的优秀传统。改革开放后 ,西方现代派戏剧再次涌入 ,导致“探索戏剧”兴起 ,中国话剧舞台发生巨大变化。

Western modernist drama has fallen twice and risen twice since its introduction to China. It was introduced and spread around the May Fourth Movement, and fell in the 1930s. It spread and rose for the second time in the Eighties, and finally declined in the Nineties. A profound lesson can be learned from the ups and downs. Special features come only after careful choices, filtration and digestion. In China, the poetic realist genre, headed by Tian Han and Cao Yu, represented the fine traditions of Chinese modern drama. After the reform and opening to the outside world began in the 1980s, western modernist drama flooded into China again. It led to the rise of 'exploratory drama', and radical changes occurred in Chinese drama.