艺术与政治之间:20世纪50年代后期上海昆曲现代戏的初次实践

Between Art and Politics:The First Practice of Shanghai Kunqu Opera in the Late 1950s

1958至1960年间,在“大跃进”运动的推力下,上海曲界展开昆曲现代戏编演的初次尝试,他们破旧立新的摸索,尽管始终无法脱离政治的框架,也并未获得成功,但在实践中积累的创造性改革经验,推动了当时关于昆曲传统继承和现代革新的大讨论。回顾这一时期艺术实践正反两面的经验与教训,或许可为当下昆曲现代戏创作提供新的反思性理论视角。

From 1958 to 1960,under the impetus of the great leap forward situation,Shanghai Kunqu circle began to make the first exploration of Kunqu modern drama.Although they could not break away from the political framework,they did not succeed in their old and new creation of Kunqu Opera.However,in practice,the experience of creative art reform has been accumulated,which has promoted the great discussion of inheriting tradition and innovating Kunqu opera in the music circle.Reviewing the first exploration of modern Kunqu Opera in this period can provide historical experience for current opera creation.