《霓虹灯下的哨兵》这部在我军文艺史上享有声誉的话剧作品,最初竟被认为是“毒草”而差点被扼杀,是周恩来慧眼拯救了这部优秀话剧。上世纪60年代初,南京军区剧作家沈西蒙和导演漠雁、记者吕兴臣合作,以上海南京路上好八连为原型,写出话剧《霓虹灯下的哨兵》。由于剧中写了一位 Sentinel Under the Neon, a piece of drama that enjoyed a reputation in the history of Chinese military literature, was originally thought of as a “poisonous weed” and was almost killed. It was Zhou Enlai's eyes that saved this outstanding drama. In the early 1960s, Shen Ximeng, a playwright in the Nanjing Military Region, and director Mo Yan and reporter Lu Xingchen cooperated with Shanghai Eighth Hutong in Nanjing Road as a prototype to write the drama Sentinel under Neon Lights. Because the play wrote a