Sun Weishi 's Art Of Director

As the first female theatre director of New China,Sun Weishi has made great contributions to the Chinese Theatre Stage Art in the 17 years before Culture Revolution. However, when mentioned the New China Realistic Theatre Acting and Directing System, we tend to think of Jiao Juyin and Beijing People’s Art Theatre, ignoring the first professional theatre institution—China Youth Art Theatre, and Sun Weishi, who is actually the pioneer of Stanislavsky’s System. Actually, Sun has spent six years learning Stanislavsky’s System in the Soviet Union, and undoubtedly she is the real communicator and participator of the System. She has made indelible contributions to the introduction and promotion of System. How the Steel was Tempered directed by Sun in 1950, was the earliest practice in theatre stage based on Stanislavsky’s System. This dissertation attempts to studying Sun’s directing art by way of restoring her stage practice, with the intention of recognition of Stanislavsky’s System and emphasis of Sun’s important place in the theatre history of New China.