Research On Troupe Operation During The Anti-Japanese War

During the Anti-Japanese War, the drama which is one of the literatures had great development, so that it enjoyed a golden stage. The growth, that is named the unique step of that period. In the war-ridden country, the land was a growing place for the drama movement. It is closely related to the life-and-death of country. The unique features of a mountain city is fog, that is also the special background for Chongqing’s drama growth. It was because of this special background, the development of Chongqing drama was representative of the times, and also has a special style that has survived, unique to the region. Survival, it was the extremely difficult struggling of edge of itself in crisis time which the land was burn roughshod over, to a great extent, there was a group of knowledgable writers to organized various drama movements and operated each theatre, to hope to awaken the awareness of the populace so that they can united protect our homes and defend our country.During the Anti-Japanese War drama performance was developed with affection more or less by each factor, such as politics, economy, culture, time, geographical environment and invisible regulation of the market and so on. The early drama was emphasis on positive in the publicity of patriotism, unrequited devotion. Then in the middle and later periods, the public emotions were changing with the Anti-Japanese War into a stalemate, along with it affected the construction and selection of the spiritual life, so it was particularly important to know how to maintain and operate the troupe in that later period which the drama was more and more by regulated of market.There were most professional troupes put on the stage in Cathay Pacific Theater which as a most representative theatre in Chongqing, such as China theatrical art association, CLP group, Shanghai filmmaker troupe, tide drama club and so on, compare with other amateur moving play, the professional troupes had a higher pursuit in artistic merit, and they were more perfect in management system and operation mode etc. As a research object on troupe operation of Cathay Pacific Theater during the Anti-Japanese War, the management system and mode of troupe will be explored in this article, to find out the troupes which operated in Cathy Pacific Theater how to achieve the tacit understanding and balance on various aspects like art, market and political etc. Artistic merit of drama performance would be improved, and at the same time, troupes had to earn more profits, how did they do it in that special period? Of course, the harmony and balance are alway related, when they quarrelled and conflict, they are much more likely to direct affect to the development of drama art, which led to the market behaviour of performance changed, so the drama movement will be difficult, even hard to extricate itself. Research on the troupe operation of Cathay Pacific Theater, is finding out how to grasp the balance from political, economic and market at that period, so it can survive and keep developing, to achieve the purpose of introspection and revelation on the current troupe operation.