最近一两年来,不少话剧作者开始着力表现正在变革的农村生活。去年,《昨天、今天和明天》与《红白喜事》两个话剧引起了热烈的反响。它们自然也还有这样那样的缺陷和遗憾,但它们最主要的价值却在于及时而较深刻地凝聚了历史前进的信息。一些习见的视面、习见的主题、习见的写法被突破了,给我们提供了可贵的启示。任何社会变革的实践活动,可以说都自精神的领域始显其端倪。反映农村变革生活,是局限于展现改革生活的过程和改革所引起的政治、经济、工作上那些可见的变化,还是透过这 In the last year or two, quite a few writers have started to show their changing rural life. Last year, two plays, “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” and “Happy Red and White,” aroused enthusiastic repercussions. Naturally, they also have such defects and regrets, but their most important value lies in the timely and deeper compilation of information that history has advanced. Some familiar visual, conventional themes, the wording of the habit was a breakthrough, giving us valuable lessons. The practical activities of any social change can be said to have begun to take shape in the spiritual field. Reflecting the life of rural change is limited to demonstrating the processes of reform and life and the political, economic and political changes that can be caused by the reforms, or through which