《雷雨》是曹禺的出世之作,也是成名之作,剧作问世半个多世纪,始终享有盛名,受到人们普遍赞崇。这在中国话剧发展的历史上是少有的现象,剧作的成功是和它塑造了八个栩栩如生的人物形象直接联系的,其中蘩漪的形象令人瞩目。曹禺在《雷雨》初版序言中说,在《雷雨》里的八个人物中,我最早想出的并且也觉得真切的是周蘩漪。她不但有“雷雨”的性格,简直 “Thunderstorm” is the birth of Cao Yu’s works, but also fame, the play more than half a century, has always enjoyed prestigious, praised by people. This is a rare phenomenon in the history of the development of Chinese drama. The success of the play is directly related to the image of eight lifelike characters, of which the image of Yi Fan is remarkable. In the preface to the first edition of “Thunderstorm,” Cao Yu said that among the eight characters in “Thunderstorm,” I first came up with what I thought was true and Zhou Yiyi. She not only “thunderstorm” character, simply