Chapter 62 A football game for the next generation

As an enthusiastic audience and a person who cares about children's literary creation, I watched "Little Football Team" (written by Ren Deyao, directed by Ren Deyao and Ren Fu) performed by the Children's Art Theater of the China Welfare Institute. I was very excited and happy.I hope that there will be more plays like "Little Football Team" and other forms of children's literature produced to meet the needs of our time. In our society, in our daily life, there is a struggle between the two roads on the ideological front anytime and anywhere.The same is true in our children's daily life. Their ideological activities either take the road of the proletariat or the road of the bourgeoisie. As children's parents, teachers and people in society, we must always watch our next steps The thoughts and actions of a new generation, guide children with the standpoint and viewpoint of the proletariat, train children, and wage a fierce, tit-for-tat struggle against the bourgeois ideology that corrupts children.This is an arduous struggle for the next generation, and it is the most important part of carrying the world revolutionary cause to the end.Reflect this fierce and arduous struggle on the stage with vivid and vivid images, let everyone see which kind of thinking is correct, beneficial to children, and lead children to a bright and healthy road; Wrong is harmful to children and leads children to the abyss of darkness and destruction. This is the responsibility of the playwright. The creation and performance of "Little Football Team" fulfilled this responsibility very well.

The play chose the football field as the battlefield of ideological struggle, which can attract the interest of the audience.There is no child who does not like ball games. They are very enthusiastic and fond of all group activities that are competitive in nature.As soon as the play opened, it was a fiery scene for the crowd to watch the football. There was no stadium on the stage, but from the eyes, mouth, dancing, praise and regret of the audience outside the stadium, we followed their emotional ups and downs, almost He knew everything about the tension on the court.Not only did we see everything on the court, but from the conversations and expressions of these small audiences, we also felt the personalities of everyone outside the court and even on the court. Wu Jinbao, a child who only wants to win by any means, pins his hope of winning The center forward Lu Yang was alone. He thought that Lu Yang played vigorously, "flying all over the field by himself", but other students all saw that Lu Yang played poorly, "I just want to show off".And it is precisely this thought of "showing the limelight" that made Lu Yang, who was still a "study well, unite well, and willing to listen to the teacher" two years ago, left a group of partners with his grandfather, the embodiment of bourgeois thinking, A group of comrades, a group of people who really love him, embarked on the road of not loving labor, not loving learning, not uniting, not listening to the teacher, and pursuing personal limelight, personal fame and fortune.

Teacher Jiang is the cutest character in this play.She is a good example for teachers of our time. She has a strong sense of responsibility. She not only teaches, but also teaches people. Responsible.She watched the direction of Lu Yang's thought activities delicately and thoughtfully.Lu Yang is a bourgeois successor who is influential among the children and is coldly selected by his grandfather for special common sense.It is her primary responsibility to win Lu Yang back from the claws of bourgeois ideology, and to pull some students who follow Lu Yang out of the muddy water.In the development of the plot, we followed Teacher Jiang's actions and words, and watched her doing the unity education work among the students with infinite enthusiasm and patience.She was so gentle, considerate, calm, calm to them.The practical working methods she has done to these children who are "not too big, not too small" are worth learning from her for teachers and parents.She didn't get angry that her brother didn't like to work, like an old man, and refused to bring him food; but when Lu Yang did it by himself and seemed too tired to move, she held back her smile and came to help , which also shows that she still loves her brother very much.Also, when Lu Yang and Li Ming were not congenial, they were so angry that they went into the house and locked the door to prevent Li Ming from coming in to sleep; but after Teacher Jiang came, he talked with Li Ming for a while and persuaded Li Ming to go to Lu Yang. Walking to the door, pushing lightly, the door opened from the inside.This shows that although Lu Yang went in and locked the door in a fit of anger, he was very uneasy in his heart. He also heard every sentence that Mr. Jiang said outside, and before dawn opened the door, he had already quietly unlocked it from the inside.Here, although Lu Yang did not play, the audience seemed to be able to see Lu Yang's thought activities in the room and his tiptoe unlocking action. This handling was very clever.

I have no experience in writing scripts, and I don't know all kinds of techniques on the stage, but I can see from this play that to write a good script, the author must have a high sense of revolutionary responsibility and go deep into the daily life of children. In the process, carefully select the most common practical issues that are of most interest to children, and use the method of class analysis to arrange and deal with the development of the plot and the psychological changes of the characters in the play.The development and resolution of the contradictions of things are written step by step, which is reasonable and reasonable, with a prominent image on the stage and a clear distinction between right and wrong, thus achieving good results in educating and encouraging children.In fact, the creation of other forms of children's literature should also follow this method.Literature and art are the barometer of the times.Our country is striding forward into a great era unprecedented in history, and our 650 million people are vigorously and conscientiously engaged in the great cause of carrying the revolution to the end.This cause is not only related to the happiness of our descendants, but also the happiness of people all over the world.Our struggle is long and difficult.The reliability of our successors is a central question.Authors of children's literature and art bear the important responsibility of cultivating and educating the next generation, while our works, especially those with modern themes, fall far behind the requirements of children and the people of the whole country.I am very happy to see the performance of "Little Football Team", which has set an example for us.It shows that modern themes are not difficult to find. As long as we look at life from the perspective of class and class struggle, a spontaneously formed small football team in the lane will also arouse the author's connection to how to regain our successors in the process of the struggle between the two roads. of various problems.Our authors who write other forms of children's literature should also study Mao Zedong Thought in this way, go deep into life, and catch up in writing!

(This article was originally published in the fourth issue of "Drama News" in 1964.)