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Evaluation of experimental drama

In the absence of ideological preparation and the necessary nourishment of modern drama culture, experimental drama has rushed to revitalize China's modern drama. Lack of analysis and digestion of western modernist drama thoughts and creations. More is imitation, plagiarism, eager for success, eager for innovation. Therefore, there has been a phenomenon of pursuing novelty rather than innovation, exploring without courage. Although this also shows its courage, it also shows its impetuousness and even rudeness. As a result, the audience gradually adopted a distant attitude towards the experimental drama. However, experimental drama is, after all, a beneficial and innovative experiment in the development of modern drama in China. In drama creation, it takes form innovation as the guide and challenges the traditional realistic drama. In terms of artistic techniques, almost all kinds of dramatic techniques at all times and all over the world have been used. In the way of performance, it also pursues diversification and has closer communication with the audience. In terms of ideological connotation, the pursuit of poetic and philosophical themes has promoted the evolution of drama aesthetic concepts and met various aesthetic needs of modern people. The experimental drama has the courage to explore, which breaks the centralization of Stanislavsky's system, breaks through the traditional realistic mode of scriptwriting and performance, makes the stage performance of China's drama begin to undergo revolutionary changes, and makes China's modern drama more diversified. In the exploration of experimental drama, there are also some excellent scripts and successful examples. For example, Liu Shugang's "Visit the Dead by the Living" was evaluated as "an important achievement in the process of combining Chinese and Western cultures to establish a new national drama in the new period.