焦裕禄同志离开我们快两年了。两年来,我们总是在怀念他。他教育我们认真学习毛主席著作,鼓励我们听从毛主席的教导,做革命人,演革命戏;他以自己的模范行动激励着我们象他那样去全心全意地为人民服务。以前,我们剧团对文艺为工农兵服务、为社会主义服务的方向并不明确,下乡演出不够经常,演出态度不够严肃,上演的剧目多半是古装戏,很少演革命现代戏,演职员的思想情况也比较混乱。一九六二年底,焦裕禄同志来兰考以后,很快注意到我们剧团的问题。一天,他找县文教局的负责同志谈话,详细了解我们 Jiao Yulu leave us almost two years. For two years, we always miss him. He educated us to earnestly study Chairman Mao’s work, encouraged us to follow Chairman Mao’s teachings, act as revolutionaries and play revolutions; and by his exemplary actions, he inspired us to serve the people wholeheartedly as he did. In the past, our theater was not clear about the direction of art, culture, work for the workers, peasants and soldiers, the service for socialism, the inadequacy of performance in the countryside, the lack of solemnity in performance, the drama most often performed, and the performance of modern drama and acting staff. The situation is also more confusing. At the end of 1962, after Comrade Jiao Lula came to Lankao, he quickly noticed the problems of our troupe. One day, he talked to the responsible comrades of the County Culture and Education Bureau to learn more about us