“同甘共苦”剧本发表以后,引起了文艺界极大的兴趣。不少地方的话剧院排演了这出戏,报纸杂志上刊登了不少赞扬的文章;同时在戏剧界里,也存在各种不同的看法和争论。这确是党提出“百家争鸣”以后的好现象。无疑这场争论是有意义的;这不仅是对“同甘共苦”一个剧本或某次演出的评价问题,还涉及到当前戏剧创作和演出活动中某些倾向问题。是值得进一步来研究讨论的。“同甘共苦”这出戏为什么会引起人们这样大的兴趣,也博得了许多好评?这不是没有原因的;一方面,剧本确有某些新鲜动人之处;另一方面,不能不说是过去一个时期那些以社会主义生产建设为题材的,富有政治思想性的,但艺术水平却不高的作品,都被认为“公式化概念化”以后的一种不太正常的反映。这里我并不是说公式化概念化的作品不应该受到批评。但总使人感觉到现在有一股风气;好像凡是斗争 After the release of the “Same Day” script, great arousing great interest in the literary and art circles. In many places, theaters rehearsed the play, newspapers and magazines published many commendable articles; the same time in the theater, there are different views and controversies. This is indeed a good sign after the party put forward the “one hundred schools of thought”. There is no doubt that this controversy makes sense; it is not only a matter of evaluating the performance of a script or a performance, but also some of the tendencies in current theater creation and performance. It is worth further study to discuss. Why did this drama arouse such great interest and won many favorable comments? This is not without reason; on the one hand, the script does have some fresh and moving features; on the other hand, it can not but be said that the past one During those times, those works with the theme of socialist construction and production, which were political and ideological, but not high in art level, were all considered to be an unusual reflection after “formulaic conceptualization.” I am not saying here that formulaically conceptualized works should not be criticized. However, people always feel that there is a trend now; it seems that all the struggle