问题与领域:中国现代话剧观念的艰难抉择

Problems and the Field: Difficult Choices of Modern Chinese Drama Concept

在20世纪前30年的中国话剧理论批评中,基本概念已经清晰,重要问题均已出现。在中西戏剧比较之中,话剧的推广者们试图确立西优于中、今胜于古的结论,但推导的过程甚为可疑。话剧民族化与大众化的实践,动机为推广话剧艺术,但却充满强烈的政治意识形态色彩。现实主义理论批评在中国的确立,其实是对现实主义概念的有意误读及功利化运用。这三组问题看似是用后一个观念解决前一个问题,实则将中国现代话剧逐步带入困境,亦直接影响了中国当代话剧的发展。回望半个多世纪前的戏剧观念,问题实则指向当下。

The modern drama criticism during the first thirty years of the twentieth century has already formed its fundamental concepts conspicuously with the appearance of some important issues.The conclusion, which the drama propagators attempt to draw, that the modern western drama is better than the traditional Chinese opera should be highly and critically suspected by its inferential process.The practice of drama nationalization and popularization is based on the original motivation of propagating the drama art, but is occupied by a serious political ideology.The establishment of the realism theory in China is in fact a misinterpreted process by a utilitarian purpose.Those issues directly influence the theoretical and methodological aspects of the contemporary Chinese drama criticism.Looking back to the drama concepts half century ago, we could definitely be inspired by the meaningful resource for current drama research area.