In the second year of Xuantong, Liu Yi Zhou (Muduo), a member of the League of Nations, came to Liaoyang from Guannai, and performed a new play, "Mourning Jiangnan" and "Continental Spring and Autumn". In May of the same year to Fengtian, and opera artists Ding Xianghua, Du Yunqing and others, have performed in Ming Sheng Tea Garden to attack the feudal dictatorship of the new play "Congress blood", the Japanese Consulate protested, Fengtian municipal authorities succumbed to the pressure, ordered a ban on the performance. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Miao Tianyu and Feng Dihan, members of the Shanghai Alliance, led a troupe to Guangde Tea Garden in Liaoyang City (Liaoyang Daguanlou) to perform dramas such as "Polish Misery of the Fallen Country" and "Soul of the Republic of China". After the introduction of drama into Liaoning, enthusiasts from all over the country organized drama performances. In the 5th year of the Republic of China (1916), Dalian's Chen Fei I initiated the organization of drama club, and served as president, most of the members are the city's merchants and gentry, and newspapers, schools, cultural figures from all walks of life, performances of plays such as the fun play "Drunken ghosts catching adulterers", the play "Chivalrous prostitutes of greenhouses," "Tears of the Xiangjiang River," "Fierce back," "Brothers of Different Mothers," and so on. Republic of 11 years (1922), Fushun Youth Association attached to the elementary school in Fushun West Theater House performance "bad marriage", "against the case of Lun" and so on.
In the 14th year of the Republic of China, Ouyang Yuqian went to Dalian and Shenyang to give speeches to the local theater community and young people who love new plays on the art of the common man, spreading modern drama. Shenyang, Shenyang, China **** party underground worker Zhang Guangqi (female) and female division students were absorbed to participate in the "Fengtian Youth Association" organized by the drama troupe, performing plays "Qiu Jin and Xu Xilin's story", "Southeast Peacock", "Whose Sin", "The Proposal" and so on. Ouyang Yuqian also performed with Zhang Guangqi in "The Fan of the Young Grandmother" and "After Going Home". In February of the same year, Ouyang Yuqian was invited by the Dalian Chinese Youth Association to give a lecture on "The Way of Chinese Drama Reform". Amateur drama groups were organized all over Liaoning, and their performances were very active. In February of the 15th year of the Republic of China, Dalian formally established the Aimei Drama Club. This was the first formal drama group in Liaoning, with president Ma Dianyuan, vice president Wang Quanxiang and director Lv Futang. In May of 1927, Aimei Drama Club was invited by YMCA to perform in the auditorium of YMCA (in today's Democracy Square) in order to prepare for the Civilian Education Fund, staging tragedies reflecting the conflicts in the family and the society, such as "A Thousand Autumns and a Thousand Remaining Hatred" and other dramas.
In September 18th of the Republic of China, Che Xiangzhen organized the Fengtian Students' Civilian Service Troupe, which performed plays such as "Improvement Hospital" and "Blindness" in Dahan Tun, a suburb of Fengtian.
After the September 18th Incident in the 20th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese authorities enacted the "Art and Culture Guidelines" to implement cultural dictatorship, and the newly-emerging mass drama boom in Liaoning suffered a serious blow. However, some folk drama groups continued their activities under the leadership and influence of the CPC. Republic of 28 years (1939) summer, Jinshan Long, Yang Ruo Zhu, Wang Zongren and others founded the Shenyang Amateur Drama Troupe, staged Ding Xilin's ten-act play "Wifeless Tired". The troupe later merged with Fengtian Drama Troupe, renamed the International Theatre Troupe, by Li Qiao, Jinshan Long as choreographer, successively performed in the South International Theatre (now Liao Yi Theatre), such as Butcher, the Beacon on the Seaside, the depths of the night, and the lifeline. After that, Zhuanghe County Women's National Higher School performed "Family Harmony" and "Home", Benxi Xu Denglin wrote and performed his own play "Love Trilogy", and Anshan progressive writer Yan Lifu organized the Zongsheng Drama Troupe to perform his play "Vigilance".
During this period, the pseudo-regime formed three major imperial troupes, the Datong Theater Troupe (Changchun), the Harbin Theater Troupe, and the Fengtian Concord Theater Troupe, which were all subordinate to the Pseudo-Concordia Society. The "Fengtian Concord Troupe" was affiliated with the Pseudo Concord Association. "Fengtian Concord Troupe" was established in September 27, the Republic of China, more than 100 people, "has to fulfill the cultural aspects of the Concord Association's important mission. The organizers of the troupe, Atsushi Hara (chairman of the Concordia of Pseudo-Manchurian Theater Troupe), Susumu Mizayama, and Yasuda, were all Japanese. In November of that year, a small public performance was held with the play "New Year's Eve Song". Republic of 28 years in June, held the first large public performance, the repertoire for the "East Palace Daisuke", "in the pasture"; in December of the same year held a tour of the large special performance, the repertoire for the "from the army", "blood track" and so on. These plays are all for the Japanese invaders to sing the praises of the Japanese. By the year of R.O.C. 30, the troupe **** created and performed more than 20 plays. From R.O.C. 30 to R.O.C. 32, the troupe performed "Thunderstorm", "Sprout", "Lust for the Devil" and so on in major cities in the Northeast. In 1942, the troupe performed the famous Soviet drama "Roar, China" in Fengtian, exposing the criminal history of the British and American imperialist invasion of China. Japan's original intention of performing this play was to publicize the evils of the British and American powers that had eaten up China, and to arouse the hatred of the Chinese people towards the American and British imperialists. But contrary to expectations, on the contrary, stirred up the majority of the audience on the invasion of Japan's unparalleled hatred, the masses scrambled to watch, unprecedented attendance. This makes the Japanese pseudo-rulers greatly alarmed, immediately ordered to stop the show. In addition, the Japanese hypocrites also organized troupes in major cities in Liaoning, for the Japanese invaders, such as the Concord Theatre Troupe (Dalian), Concord Pavilion Theatre Troupe (Andong) and so on. These troupes were disbanded after the restoration of the Northeast in "August 15".
At the beginning of the liberation war, the Chinese ****productivist party drew a large number of revolutionary literature and art workers to the Northeast, and set up a number of literary troupes in the Liaoning area. These literary troupes performed literary and artistic programs while doing mass work in every place they visited, and helped to actively establish literary and industrial troupes and teams in various places. A large number of live newspaper dramas, small dramas, etc., for the Northeast, Liaoning region for the development of new drama has laid a solid foundation. At the same time, Shenyang, Dalian, Andong and other places also formed a number of folk drama groups, they are self-funded, voluntary combination of private private professional troupes, such as Dalian's East Arts Troupe, the Light Restoration Troupe, China Youth Troupe, Liaodong Theater Troupe, Dalian Theater Troupe, Sino-Soviet Friendship Troupe and so on, performed in the words of the "night is not yet over", "Blood Debt", "Begonia", "Strong Mountains and Rivers" and so on. At the same time, the nationalist army "political work team" and some of the nationalist party operated drama troupes, at one time to control the drama stage in Liaoning, especially in major cities, they performed in Shenyang, Dalian, Andong and other places to perform a number of reactionary dramas, such as the first word of the sky, the wild roses, etc., at the same time, but also performed the "Thunderstorm," the "Sunrise
After the founding of the People's Republic of China*** and the State, drama theaters and troupes were established in every city in the province. Over the past few decades, the drama has developed faster, training a group of more reputable actors inside and outside the province.
A kind of drama with dialog and action as the main means of expression. It first appeared on the eve of the 1911 Revolution, and was called "new drama" or "civilized drama". New drama declined after the 1911 Revolution. "After the May Fourth Movement, European drama was introduced to China, and modern Chinese drama emerged, which was then called "Aimei Drama" and "Baihua Drama", and Hong Shen proposed to name it drama in 1928. It reflects social life through characters. Dialogues in dramas are refined and processed colloquialisms, which must be personalized, natural, refined, vivid, beautiful, expressive, easy to understand and acceptable to the masses. Guo Moruo's "Qu Yuan", Lao She's "Tea House", Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm", etc., are all famous plays in China.
Drama was introduced to China by foreign countries at the beginning of this century. 1907 by Chinese students in Tokyo, Japan, Zeng Xiaogu according to the American novel adaptation of the Negro Appeal for Heaven, is the first script of the early Chinese drama. Modern famous playwrights include Guo Moruo, Cao Yu, Hong Shen, Tian Han and Lao She.