Cruelty And Separation:Rethinking Of Modern Drama

In the history of world drama,alto’s cruel drama thought and Brecht’s defamiliarization theory are both indispensable.Just like Li Du’s position in the whole Tang poetry,it is also like Lu Xun’s important value to modern and contemporary Chinese literature.Any scholar who wants to study the 20 th century drama cannot do without the exploration of these two schools.Alto’s greatest contribution lies in his theoretical exploration.It is by virtue of his common sensitivity,which is known as genius and "madman",that he glimpses the image of future drama in advance from his irrational and intuitive telescope,and makes predictions to the world in advance.[Gu Yi’an,the performance form and style characteristics of Alto’s cruel drama,drama art,No.1,1989] it was because of his theoretical development that the following three scholars,Grotowski,peterbrook and Schechner,explored respectively along the source of cruel drama and brought forth results in different fields of drama research.The most basic and important definition of cruelty in Alto’s cruel drama is the definition of cruelty,which he emphasized many times in the cruel drama.Cruelty does not come from the surface of violence and blood,but from the deep level of human spirit.It is a necessity that even the executioner must obey.Brecht’s method of defamiliarization,that is,alienation effect,is another theoretical peak in the history of the 20 th century’s world drama.Different from the traditional western drama theory dominated by Aristotle,Brecht emphasizes telling an event on the stage,turning the audience into an observer,prompting the audience to make changes and decisions,rather than anesthetizing the audience in the theater.The original play "understand you" is a work like this: he has the spiritual connotation of Alto’s cruel drama.By tearing the secrets hidden by the Lei family for decades,the fate of the characters changes,so as to reveal the impermanence of fate and the cruelty of life,which is in the same line with the essence of Alto’s cruel drama.At the same time,the way the story unfolds is not in accordance with the traditional drama mode.He approaches Brecht’s method: telling a story on the stage,pulling the audience out of the play from time to time through the actors’ jumping in and out,and turning them into objective observers.To a certain extent,the author is more willingto take his work as a brand-new exploration and attempt: to reveal the Alto style spiritual cruel drama with Brecht’s narrative way.As the writer of the original play "understand you",the author will first briefly summarize the creation of the original play "understand you",including the origin of creation,theme,character setting,screenwriter skills,etc.,and then further discuss the application of cruel drama thought and defamiliarization method in this work.Finally,the author will talk about the current words based on the creation of the current drama market In the play,the cruelty and alienation are misinterpreted and their own views are put forward.