Xu Xu Play Theory

Xuxu had written forty plays in all his life, bestrode modern and contemporary era. He was a versatile player in dramatic history. Xuxu's some dramas of his forepart were about the class struggle, resistence of Japanese invasion, and meditation of country consciousness. It conveyed his strong resentment and patriotic enthusiasm in dark ages. His most dramas didn't belong to revolutionary and resistive dramas. He devoted his mind to image a kind of nonobjective love. Xuxu majored in philosophy and psychology in Beijing University, so he was even more good at reflecting people's mental and spiritual reality, not exterior social reality. He used a sort of nontrue-life's technique to represented love and the love encountered difficulties in 1930s and 1940s. His dramas possessed ideas and attached importance to aesthetic character, for Chinese realism drama part, it was important complementarity. Xuxu synthesized romanticism and modernism representative techniques, so his dramas took on particular poetic and philosophic style. He referred futurism theatrical form, exploited one-role-play, used the dramatic unities, and gave an impulse to the development of humorous and absurd comedy, above-mentioned creation had extraordinary worth in Chinese dramatic phylogeny.