夏夜,在中山公园的茶座上,有几位话剧演员争论一个问题:在排练中导演可否做示范表演。有人赞成,有人反对,大家谈得很热烈。归来,在灯下读第五期的《戏剧报》,朱琳同志的《导演与演员之间》一文,给了我许多启发。的确,导演与演员之间有许多问题值得探讨,而其中,导演可否做示范表演的问题,也值得加以研究。远在二十年前,一位著名的导演在一篇 On summer nights, there are a few actors and actresses in Zhongshan Park on the tea table who are disputing a question: Can the director give a demonstration during the rehearsal? Some people support it, others oppose it and everyone talks very warmly. Returning to the fifth issue of the Drama Newspaper under the lights, Comrade Zhu Lin’s article “Between the Director and the Actor” gave me a lot of inspiration. Indeed, there are many issues worth discussing between directors and performers. Among them, the issue of whether directors can perform demonstration performances is also worth studying. Twenty years ago, a famous director wrote