/kloc-in the autumn of 0/926, Yu Shangyuan was a professor at Guanghua University and Jinan University in Shanghai, co-organized Crescent Bookstore with Xu Zhimo, served as editor and manager, and translated and published famous foreign dramas such as "Immortality Tactics" and "Admirable Clayton". He also collected papers on drama and compiled them into a book "National Drama Movement". /kloc-in the winter of 0/928, he was re-employed by the secretary of Beijing China Education and Culture Foundation, and concurrently served as a professor of drama department of National Peking University Art Institute, and organized a small theater in Peiping after school. During this period, he directed such famous plays as La Traviata and The Restoration of the French Open. 1935 accompanied Mei Lanfang to visit the Soviet Union to perform. After that, he went to western European countries to inspect drama education.
During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, Hubei famous actresses Xi Zi and Yu Sansheng successively brought Han tune (now called Han Opera) to Beijing, and later Han tune and Hui tune merged into Beijing opera. Mi Heyu is considered as the pioneer of Peking Opera. Decades later, during the Republic of China, two Hubei students who loved drama entered Tsinghua University from under the Yellow Crane Tower and then studied in the United States. They launched the "National Drama Movement" on the other side of the ocean, which left a glorious stroke in the cultural history. These two people are Yu Shangyuan from Shashi, Hubei Province and Wen Yiduo from Xishui, Hubei Province.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/924, Yu Shangyuan and Wen Yiduo got together in new york Wanguo Apartment. Zhang, Zhao Taimou, Xiong Foxi and other China students who love drama live in the apartment. Yu Shangyuan studied western drama literature and drama art at Columbia University. Wen Yiduo's main direction at this time is art, and he is very interested in stage layout and fashion design. These pioneers of China's modern culture happened to meet on the other side of the ocean, but it was a blessing in the cultural history of China.
During his stay in new york, Yu Shangyuan often got together with Zhang, Zhao Taimou, Wen Yiduo, Xiong Foxi and others. These like-minded people often meet in Chinese restaurants, eat wonton and drink acanthopanax bark, and talk about drama art, eager to try. Soon, Wen Yiduo co-edited a one-act drama with Xiong Foxi, and then cooperated with Yu Shangyuan and Zhao Taimou to organize the performance of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl (written by Hong Shen). After the success of the initial test, all the fellow travelers were smiling and thinking of by going up one flight of stairs.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/924, the China Students' Union of Cambridge initiated the writing and acting of the English drama This Hate (a "Yang Guifei"). This play is based on China's famous classical drama "The Palace of Eternal Life". When Yu Shangyuan adapted it, he fully absorbed the strong freehand brushwork features of China traditional operas and translated it into English by Wen Yiduo. Before the performance, directors such as Yu Shangyuan, Wen Yiduo, Zhao Taimou and Zhang got together day and night to plan and consider every line, every set of scenery and every line of lighting. Although we sometimes argue with each other, we finally come together. With the support of overseas Chinese businessmen, "This Endless Hate" was finally officially staged in the auditorium of Wanguo Apartment. Huang, who plays the role of Yang Guifei, and Huang, who plays the role of Tang Dynasty, are dressed in gorgeous costumes designed by Wen Yiduo and painted with the sea, red sun and white cranes, and the scenery and lighting designed by Zhao Taimou in a symbolic way are particularly energetic. Yu Shangyuan, Zhao Taimou, Wen Yiduo and Xie Bingxin play roles in the play. The audience applauded and the performance was a great success. The next day, the newspaper published a praise article, saying that "this endless hatred" "surpassed all the performances of other countries and won glory for the country" (Memoirs of Huang, Taipei Biography and Literature Publishing House).
On the closing day, four creative directors, Yu Shangyuan, Wen Yiduo, Zhao Taimou and Zhang, sat around the fireplace of Yu Shangyuan's apartment to warm up and sum up the gains and losses of the performance. During the extensive discussion, four hot-blooded youths discussed an avant-garde topic: "National Drama Movement" and "National Drama Movement", which was put forward.
Yu Shangyuan and others first conducted a lot of investigations on how to carry out the "National Drama Movement". They traveled all over the theaters in new york to learn about the construction of the theater. Even the paint shop, electrical appliance company, glass shop, cloth shop, clothing shop, jewelry shop, plastic shop, lime shop and photo studio involved in the preparation of the theater have been there many times.
After more than two months of investigation, brewing and more than a dozen revisions, they drafted the planning outline of Beiping Art Theatre. The Outline envisages the construction of Beiping Art Theatre, Actor School, Drama Library and Museum; Founding Puppet magazine; Raise funds to send foreign students to study drama art, and there are also some performances.
During this period, American drama lovers such as Yu Shangyuan, Wen Yiduo, Zhang, Xiong Foxi, Lin, Liang Sicheng and Liang Shiqiu also initiated the establishment of the China Drama Improvement Society. Everyone's "referendum begins with publishing publications" and plans to focus on drama. There are two kinds of publications: carving insects and river maps. As soon as the news came out, there were many contributors.
1October 28th,1925,65438+Yu Shangyuan wrote to Hu Shi, introducing that they were "particularly interested in drama art and studied deeply" in the United States. The letter also invited Mr. Zhu, the "Crescent Society" established in Beijing not long ago, to join the China Drama Improvement Society.
The performance of "This Endless Hate" was successful, and Yu Shangyuan and others became famous among Chinese living in the United States, and the host of the China Student Union in Cambridge was also greatly encouraged. 1in the spring of 925, they initiated the writing and performance of the English drama Pipa, and invited directors Yu Shangyuan and Zhao Taimou to rehearse. On March 28th, The Story of the Pipa was staged at the Boston copley Theatre, one of the famous American theaters, and it was a success again.
China students studying in the United States gave two performances of British costumes, which made the audience appreciate the profound connotation of China's traditional culture and reflected strongly. The local Christian Monitor also specially reported this great event for overseas students in China.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/925, several like-minded people, such as Yu Shangyuan and Wen Yiduo, returned to China one after another. Later, they founded the drama department of Beiping Art College, opened a column of drama magazine in the Morning Post Supplement to discuss the national drama, founded the New Moon magazine in Shanghai to advocate the "national drama movement", and also founded a "small theater" in Beiping, which trained a number of outstanding performing artists such as Bai Yang. After returning to China, their most prominent job was to set up the National Theatre Academy, the "highest institution of drama at that time". Later, many leading figures on stage and screen in China came from this school.
In the autumn of 1926, Yu Shangyuan was a professor at Guanghua University and Jinan University in Shanghai. Together with Xu Zhimo, he organized Crescent Bookstore, served as editor-in-chief and manager, translated and published famous foreign dramas such as The Immortal Formula and The Admirable Clayton, and collected relevant drama papers into a book "National Drama Movement" in the winter of 1928. During this period, he directed such famous plays as La Traviata and The Restoration of the French Open. 1935 accompanied Mei Lanfang to visit the Soviet Union to perform. Following the investigation of drama education in western European countries, the National Drama School was established in Nanjing in the autumn of 1935, and was hired as a member of the school board and principal. Hired, Chen Zhice, Cao Yu, Ma, and others as full-time tutors, as the main performance teachers, and directed W. Shakespeare's famous play The Merchant of Venice. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Yu Shangyuan led the drama school to retreat to Changsha and Chongqing, and organized students to perform street dramas after school to publicize the Anti-Japanese War. 1939 Spring, moved to Jiang 'an, Sichuan again. 194 1, the Theatre Academy was renamed the National Theatre Academy. Yu Shangyuan has always followed Cai Yuanpei's school-running experience, hired teachers with real talents and practical knowledge to teach and advocated teachers' scientific research activities. He took the lead in writing Outline of Performing Arts, Outline of Directors' Art and Summary of Stage Design, which made outstanding contributions to establishing a standardized drama education system and cultivating drama talents.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Theatre Academy moved back to Nanjing. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/948, he gave lectures in Britain and attended the first annual meeting of Czechoslovakia International Theatre Association. 1949. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), he was employed as a teacher of Hujiang University. Then transfer to Fudan. 1959 transferred to the Department of Drama Literature of Shanghai Theatre Academy to teach, wrote various lectures such as Criticism of Western Drama Theory and Introduction to Drama, and also translated many famous works such as Baker's Drama Skills.