Starting From Daily Life

The drama script "Inn on the Earth" mainly tells the story of the landlord Guo Mei and seven tenants in the Inn on the Earth.All these people-Guo Mei the landlord who has run the inn alone for more than ten years,Lin Lin the high school girl who runs away from home,He Lu the vendor who has looked for his son thousands of miles for eight years,etc.-leave their home for various reasons and gather in this dilapidated inn,and by sharing everyday life they feel the warmth of family beyond ties of blood.Because of an accident,they find the cruel truth about the disappearance of He Lu’s son.At the same time,they are at the risk of losing this homelike inn.Based on everyday life,Inn on the Earth shows these people of lowest priority in the daily life of joys and sorrows in the form of "cross-section of life",and breaks through the character relationships of classic drama mostly based on the family blood ties.Inn on the Earth is an expanded "family",with the tenants with different personalities and backgrounds representing multiple social perspectives,and the portrait-displaying structure presents a diversed society on a multifocal stage.The paper,“Starting from Daily Life: A Review on the Creation of Drama Script Inn on the Earth",reviews the plot,characters,structure,etc.of the script from the three aspects of topic selection,text analysis,and gains and losses;summarizes the experiences and problems in the creation process;explores the theatricality of everyday life,and the potential of contemporary theatre in term of text and stage creation when choosing lower-class people as protagonist.