读了几个陈亚先的剧本,一个最直接的感觉便是流畅、浅近,虽然并不浅薄。读这样的本子,看这样的戏,可以让人有余地和功夫去体味词章之美,去触摸几个形象的神韵。看新编历史剧,我最怕的是借古鉴今之类。现代人比古代人聪明多了,因为受的磨难,积累的教训和经验不比古人少,何须再借古人来教化一番? 那些借古讽今,不论其如何巧妙曲折,不论其如何呼应今人心声,那也是不足取的。万不得已偶一为之倒也罢了。戏剧所负载的东西还是单纯些为好。不然,‘背起磨盘唱戏,戏不好看,人也吃亏’。民谚就是这么说的。陈亚先的成名作当然是《曹操与杨修》。之后如有新作,人们当拿它与前者作种种比较,这也是很自然的。文野高下,也就各说不一了。《曹操与杨修》我是先看演出实况录像的。戏确实好,我分明认识了陈亚先的功力和趣味。但同时,我也为录像带里所传来的不断的叫好声而有所忧虑。为演员的唱做功夫叫好和唤起观众某种联想的叫好是可以分得清的。我忧虑的是后者。后来,再看录制的发行带,却干净了许多。艺术家要抵御这种诱惑是很需要点勇气和冷峻的。倒不是说观众有意引诱,他们很单纯,很痴迷,很直接,然而艺术家被引 Read a few Chen Ya Xian’s script, a most direct feeling is smooth, shallow, though not superficial. Reading such a book to see such a drama, you can make room and effort to appreciate the beauty of the word chapter, to touch the charm of several images. Look at the new historical drama, I fear most is by ancient Kam today. Modern people are cleverer than the ancient people because they have suffered so much because of the hardships they have accumulated and have learned less and learned less from the ancients. Why should they borrow the ancients to educate them? No matter how clever they are, no matter how eternally they are Voice, it is not enough. A last resort it’s worth nothing. What the drama loads is still purely better. Otherwise, ’recite grinning, opera does not look good, people suffer.’ Minyan is saying so. Chen’s first famous course is “Cao Cao and Yang Xiu.” If new works are to be made later, it is only natural that people should take a comparison with the former. Wenyao high, also different. “Cao Cao and Yang Xiu,” I was watching the live video first. The play is really good, I clearly know Chen Ya Xian’s skill and interest. But at the same time, I am also worried about the constant good-sounding voices coming from the videotapes. It is OK to applaud the performers and call the audience a certain kind of association. I am worried about the latter. Later, look at the recording distribution, but clean a lot. It takes a lot of courage and solemnity for artists to resist this temptation. Not to say that the audience intends to lure them, they are simple, very obsessed, very direct, however, the artist is cited