The development of the New Drama Movement in Taiwan Province Province is closely related to the Taiwan Cultural Association. 192 1 The cultural association established in 1923 10 6 17 specifically added "movies (i.e. concerts and theatrical performances) for the purpose of changing bad habits and cultivating noble interests". Cultural drama has become one of the main activities of cultural associations. The Taiwan Cultural Association has a close relationship with overseas students. The overseas students who were enthusiastic about drama later became members of the Literary Association, and the drama movement of the members of the Literary Association was undoubtedly influenced by the drama that flourished after the May Fourth Movement of the motherland. As Zhang Weixian, who is enthusiastic about drama, said, "I am interested in new dramas because I have seen Hu Shi's plays after the New Literature Movement in China." This situation made the New Drama Movement in Taiwan Province Province have the consciousness of social innovation and the character of cultural movement from the very beginning.
In the early 1920s, the new drama movement in Taiwan Province Province entered the embryonic stage. 1923165438+10. In October, Changhua students Chen, Xie Shuyuan, who were studying in Xiamen, gathered Zhou Tianqi, Yang Songmao, Guo, and others to set up a club, and then performed Xiamen University's popular education plays Social Lessons and Love of Conscience. Ding Xinshe is the earliest civilized troupe with political movement in Taiwan Province Province, with anti-Japanese consciousness and the purport of reforming new dramas and social movements.
1924, Zhang Weixian, Chen Tu () and others established the Starlight Drama Research Association. This is the second important new drama club after Ding Xinshe. Its establishment was influenced by the dramas of Tian Han and others and inspired by the civilized dramas of Xiamen Civilian Education Society. 1in the winter of 998, Tian Han's three-act drama "The Event of Life" was performed, which received rave reviews. The following year, the repertoire was more abundant, including one-act drama Mother and Daughter Stupid, You Die First, and eight-act drama Hibiscus Robbery and Lotus in Fire.
From 1925 to 1930, the new drama movement began to develop by leaps and bounds, which was marked by the gestation of troupe and the frequent performance of "cultural drama"
1925 In July, Caotun Yanfeng Youth Association Theater was established, with a total of 28 members. The main members are, Hong, Hong Jinshui, Lin and others. After half a year's training, 1926 made its first performance in Taichung on March 2nd, with plays such as Improving Learning, The End of Ghosts and Ghosts, Love is Better than Death, and the following evenings included My Old Home, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Little Year's Eve and People. These plays are not performed by other troupes, and most of them are written and directed by Zhang Shen.
1925 In April, Ding Xin society was divided because of different views on drama. Zhou Tianqi formed the Taiwan Province Student Gay Alliance, with members including Cangzhou Wu, Lin Shengchuan, Zhuang Jiaen, Lai Xiangzhou and Pan Lu. His plays include Love of Conscience, Fear of Wife, The End of a New Woman and Reflection of a Vanity Woman.
1March, 926, Chen, United Society and "Student Comrades' Association" who returned to Changhua from Beijing established Changhua New Drama Society. With the aim of "changing customs, getting rid of superstitions and satirizing the relationship between labor and capital", the agency toured all over the country with plays such as Father's Return, Social Class, Lifelong Event, My Darling and Baby's Meat.
1927, the "cultural drama" of the political movement of Taiwan Province Federation of Literary and Art Circles reached its climax. According to Zhang's deep memory, "oppose autocracy, crack down on the police, introduce world democratic politics, overthrow feudal ideas, and get rid of bad habits and superstitions." It was the central theme of speeches and cultural dramas at that time. At that time, in order to make sports more popular, so-called cultural drama groups were established everywhere like mushrooms after rain, and achieved considerable results. According to Ye Rongzhong's History of Social Movements in Taiwan Province Province, there were as many as 50 cultural and theatrical performances in 1927, excluding performances by small troupes or troupes affiliated to the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Such frequent performance activities are first based on the creation of the art troupe. The troupes established in this year include: in March, Lin Yannian returned to Taiwan from Xiamen and established Anping Troupe in Tainan; On August 25th, Beigang Reading Club established Minsheng Society; In June 5438+10, the team of Taipei fraternity association reorganized the Dawn Theater Research Institute; In June165438+1October 10, Hsinchu established Guangxin Society, which was presided over by Lin Donggui, a cultural society, and directed by Zhou Tianqi. 165438+1On October 3, Huang established Minfeng Drama Club in Yilan; Ling Shuilong established Yun Xin Theatre Company in Keelung. That year, Tainan Art Troupe was established. The new and old troupes performed hand in hand, pushing the cultural drama movement of "innovating and turning ignorance into understanding" to a climax. Its extensive influence on cultural enlightenment and arousing the public aroused the vigilance of the Japanese colonial authorities, so they created scripts, set obstacles, banned performances and deliberately made things difficult for cultural drama performances.