Return To The Origin And Start Again

In the research of the theatre of the absurd in the west,"anti-drama"has seemed to become public opinion, No matter the dramatist brags about personally, or in the comment, is of common occurrence"anti-drama". But after"anti-drama"sequently explain: I.e."anti-traditional drama". Few people object to this kind of statement. The"traditional drama"equate with the"drama"seeming to already become the indubitable final conclusion. This phenomenon proves that, in the drama field, the traditional drama theory that established since ancient Greek Aristotle has been regarded as a potential and the only standard to stipulate and weigh the drama creation.However,"anti-drama"is"anti- traditional drama"? In order to find the anser, this text tries hard to proceed with the origin of the drama to study what the drama was and how to exist on earth originally. And in this course, this text find the relation of the primitive ceremony and drama noumenonn,and think that the ceremony is the characteristic in the noumenonn meaning of the drama art.Review the theatre of the absurd with such a drama noumenonn , this text finds that the absurd theatre has obvious ceremony nature no matter in the spiritual essence or formal: First,it expresses the predicament that people faces in the modern world and the thought about people's surviving question that people have been doing since the ancient times. In addition , the absurd theatre reference the thought of wizardry ceremony and fully uses the symbolism on it's expression way, such as the choosing of personages and props , using imagination to express their inner world and to resist the absurd world. At the same time, the theatre of the absurd emphasized the performance properties of the drama by means of dening language , circulating structure ,strong ceremony movement ,etc. Thus it could describe the true view of the human live vividly by ocular stage language ,and these expression forms'prototype can all be found in the primitive ceremony .Therefore, the absurd drama did not objected to the drama , but the diligent to get back to the source of drama art, to look for the noumenonn of the drama again. It aimed at breaking the hegemony of the traditional drama theory and resuming the drama's vigour again.