If you want to dabble in foreign dramas, what should you watch? Help recommend

If you know more about Chinese drama, you must still have a certain foundation. Because Chinese drama was derived from Japan, and modern Japanese drama was produced under the influence of the West, it is necessary to go back to the cradle of ancient Greek culture.

I suggest that you start with the ancient Greek drama, that is, from the roots of the drama to understand the Western drama. In this way, you will have a clearer understanding of the context of drama, and in turn, a deeper understanding of Chinese "drama".

The drama department of the School of Drama uses the book "History of Western European Theatre" as a textbook, and the author is Liao Kedui. It is recommended that you follow the table of contents of the book to sort out the clues, and then find a specific script to read.

The three major playwrights of ancient Greece must be understood, and the plays that can be found at present include "King Oedipus" and so on. This is a very typical work, and it will be very good for you to understand Western theater. After that, you can find Aristotle's Poetics, which specifically makes a profound ** on tragedy.

The scripts of writers from various historical periods and genres are relatively easy to find, so you can find them and read them.

The history of Western European theater does not include the content of the United States and the former Soviet Union, here I recommend a few famous artists to you, one is the American playwright Arthur Miller, his famous works are "The Death of a Salesman", "A Streetcar Named Desire", William Tennessee's "The Glass Menagerie", O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon", "Desire Under the Elm Tree", "Emperor Jones", etc. Chekhov in the former Soviet Union is a must-see, specifically "Three Sisters", "Seagulls", "Cherry Orchard", etc., as well as Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm", Lyudmila Razumovskaia's "Youth Taboo Game" (dear Yelena Sergeyevna) and so on.

Ibsen's doll's house, old man Sha's can be.

"Thunderstorm".

Thunderstorm is a drama written by playwright Cao Yu, published in the July 1934 issue of Literary Quarterly.

This play is set in Chinese society around 1925 and depicts the tragedy of a bourgeois family with strong feudal overtones. The play is based on two families, eight characters, and thirty years of grievances, Zhou Puyuan, a hypocritical capitalist patriarch, Zhou Chong, a simple teenager influenced by new ideas, Su Yi, a woman who was driven crazy by an indifferent family and was injured by love, and Zhou Ping, who was full of guilt about what he had done in the past and tried to escape.

There is also Lu Shiping, who returned unexpectedly, Lu Sifeng, who simply loves and is loved, Lu Dahai, an oppressed worker, and an insatiable housekeeper, etc., whether it is a family secret or a life secret, all the contradictions broke out on the night of the thunderstorm, while describing the entanglement of family contradictions and angrily denouncing the decay and stubbornness of the feudal family, it reflects the deeper social and contemporary problems.

With its gripping plot, concise and subtle language, and distinctive characters, the play is "the cornerstone of Chinese drama realism" and a milestone in the maturity of modern Chinese drama.

Evaluation of the work. Modern writer Ba Jin: "Thunderstorm" is a work that can not only be acted, but also read.

Kengo Lee, a modern dramatist: A moving play, a long play of a great nature.

Modern translator Li Liewen: Speaking of "Thunderstorm", I should confess that it is thanks to "Thunderstorm" that I believe that China does have modern dramas.

Song Baozhen, deputy director of the Drama Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts: "Thunderstorm" tells us a lot of "can'ts" through its tragic ending, such as not being able to do what you want in the pursuit of emotional desires, not being disobedient to human ethics in the independent choice of love, not giving up on the issue of tragic responsibility, and so on. Because everyone's existence is not absolutely isolated, it is our common reality.

01 Classification.

Understanding the classification helps us to have a better understanding of the drama. Contemporary drama can be divided into three categories: experimental drama, avant-garde drama, and improvisational drama.

The most valuable reference value of avant-garde drama is Meng Jinghui's drama, which often uses a surreal technique to express it. Improvisational drama is as improvisational as its name.

02 Director.

When we enjoy a drama, we can learn more about the director of the drama, and each director has his own unique style. For example, director Tian Qinxin, her dramas often have a hint of Zen style, and at this time, you can learn more about Zen to help you understand.

03 Performance.

Performance is an important part of drama. Drama performance is different from our film and television drama performance, he usually has a stronger sense of performance. Therefore, many drama actors will feel that they are using too much force when they are specially designed for film and television actors. And the drama needs to be so "too violent".

04 lines.

When enjoying the drama, the audience can appreciate the line skills of the actors on stage, and the actors with excellent line skills can often bring the audience into his emotions. The line skills are all excellent, mainly emphasizing the use of the actor's voice and spirit.

05 **。

Stage plays usually borrow ** for artistic expression, and what the audience hears on the spot will definitely be better than what they listen to at home. ** Not on its own, but according to the plot of the play.

06 Choreography.

Drama is not a single stage expression, and he sometimes combines dance to perform it. Storytelling through dancing is a common technique used in drama. If you're interested in dance, you might as well watch a play.

07 Layout.

The stage of the drama often arranges a corresponding scene to be interpreted, which is the wisdom of the director. The audience can analyze the form and method of stage set and scene change to figure out what the director is expressing.

1."Waiting for Godot":

is a two-act tragicomedy by Irish modernist playwright Samuel Beckett, premiered in 1953. "Waiting for Godot" is a tragedy in which "nothing happens, no one comes, no one goes".

2."Rhino":

It is Yunescu's masterpiece. The work revolves around an absurd adventure of a young civil servant, Belangi. Belangi was a socially underclass figure. He is dissatisfied with life, at a loss for the future, and often has an inexplicable sense of fear and loneliness, but he can maintain an independent personality.

3."The Man Who Rode Down to the Sea":

Singh's one-act play. Premiered in 1904. The plot has a strong tragic atmosphere.

The heroine, Morje, is an elderly woman in a fishing village in the Aran Islands, where her husband's father, husband and her four sons are buried in the sea, and it is rumored that the clothes and socks of the drowned were picked up by the sea. Morje thought of his fifth son, Mikael, who had not returned from the sea.

4.A Doll's House:

It is a theatrical work written by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. The play is a typical social problem drama, mainly around the awakening of the heroine Nala, who was favored in the past, and ends with Nora's escape.

5.Salome:

It is a play written by the British aestheticist writer Oscar Wilde in 1893. Salome's story is first recorded in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, telling the story of Salome, who was instructed by her mother Herodias to dance for King Herod and asked for a reward for the head of John the Baptist.

I think Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is pretty good, and there are scenes you want in it, see the attachment