《吴祖光剧作选》的出版,对我们戏剧界是一件值得庆贺的事!事隔三、四十年,重读这些剧作,真是不胜感慨。当年,正是抗战初期,我与祖光在重庆的国立戏剧专科学校里共事,虽然我长他十岁,但因都是从沦陷的北方来的,所以经常交往。他的第一个剧本《凤凰城》写成后就是由我参加导演在重庆上演的,内容是表现东北抗日英雄的。演出极受观众欢迎,从此我和祖光便结上深厚的友情。后来从一九四○年起我到了上海,创办“苦干”剧团,仍与留在重庆的祖光不断联系,又导演过他写的两个戏:《牛郎织女》与《林冲》,《牛郎织女》还请了梅兰芳先生来指导剧中舞带绸的 The publication of “Wu Zu Guang’s Drama Selection” is a celebration of our theater industry. It is a great feeling to reread these plays after three or four decades. That year, it was during the early Anti-Japanese War that I worked with amateur at the National Academy of Drama in Chongqing. Although I grew up at the age of ten, I came from the north of the country where I was captured and therefore I often deal with them. After his first play, “Phoenix City,” was written, I participated in the director’s performance in Chongqing on the content of the anti-Japanese hero in northeast China. The performance is very popular with the audience, since then I and my grandfather will be on the deep friendship. Later, from 1940 onwards, I went to Shanghai to set up a “hard-working” theatrical troupe and still kept in touch with the amateur I stayed in Chongqing. I directed two plays he wrote: “Cowherd and Weaver” and “Lin Chong” and “ ”Also invited Mr. Mei Lanfang to guide the dance with silk