The Humanistic Value Of Lai Shengchuan’s Drama

Lai is one of the hottest names in contemporary Chinese theater, enjoy the "pioneering Taiwanese theater pioneer" reputation. Lai created Performance Workshop" in1984, always adhere to the creative exploration, with dramatic light on the way of life could not bear the heavy. In Lai Shengchuan’s dramatic world, both on real life details elaboration, also has to the panoramic view of history, life experience of the nation; there is a deep accumulation of Chinese traditional culture, also has the western mode of thinking of the deep dormancy. He swims between East and West, tradition and modern, popular and classical, showing examination and care for age and the present social an intellectual.By the present situation of film and television market a great impact in the dramatic world, Lai quietly looking for a balance between business and art, has always been to intellectual passion, mass culture and elite culture skillfully combined into drama form, not only for Taiwan theatre with new power, inject fresh blood for the overall development of China drama.This paper first makes an analysis of the cultural origin of the Chinese and Western cultures, from the point of Lai Shengchuan’s plays, concern about reality and then combined with the work to show Lai Shengchuan’s drama scholar standpoint from four aspects, followed by analysis of humanity the drama of the human element point, finally makes an evaluation on the effect of Lai Shengchuan’s drama of contemporary Chinese drama. This paper is not only a systematic interpretation of Lai Shengchuan’s drama, it is for the first time in the master’s thesis in the aspect of cultural value perspective to re-examine Lai Shengchuan’s drama, excavate its profound thought of drama.