The artistic legacy of playwright Vuong Lan

NDO - On May 30, in Hanoi, the Vietnam Stage Artists Association in collaboration with the Institute for Research on Preservation and Promotion of National Culture organized the scientific seminar "Playwright Vuong Lan: The silent pioneer", with the participation of many artists in the field of theater.

Speaking at the opening of the Workshop, People's Artist Trinh Thuy Mui, President of the Vietnam Stage Artists Association, affirmed: Organizing the Workshop is a meaningful activity, a stick of incense to pay tribute to playwright Vuong Lan - who has made many valuable contributions to the Vietnamese revolutionary stage.

Playwright Vuong Lan is a senior distinguished member of the Vietnam Stage Artists Association and a leading author of Vietnamese theater from the late 1950s to 1974.

During more than 16 years of creative work, from writing the play “Sea Storm” in 1958 to the last play completed right before his death, on April 28, 1974 - when he was just 45 years old, playwright Vuong Lan had more than 10 plays staged by the Central People's Drama Troupe, the Southern Drama Troupe, the Hai Phong Drama Troupe, the Quang Ninh Drama Troupe, and many other large professional drama troupes as well as other mass art units in the North at that time to serve the people and were warmly received.

The President of the Vietnam Stage Artists Association said that playwright Vuong Lan is a pioneer playwright who has tackled the theme of workers, building new Vietnamese socialist people and has achieved great success. He is also a pioneer playwright who tackles the theme of national reconciliation.

“He has been gone for 51 years, but his plays such as 'Sea Storm', 'Sea Gate Night', 'Dear People', 'Southern Route', 'Night Ferry', 'Deo Nai Wind', 'Hand in Hand', 'Beyond the Limit'... still look like they were just written, full of modernity. Art units, especially current drama genres, can all research and restore them to serve today's contemporary life," People's Artist Trinh Thuy Mui emphasized.

People's Artist Trinh Thuy Mui, President of Vietnam Stage Artists Association, speaks

Elucidating the special marks of Vuong Lan's plays, Deputy Director of the Institute for Research on Preservation and Promotion of National Culture, Editor-in-Chief of the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Magazine Nguyen The Khoa commented: Vuong Lan is the first stage author to tackle the theme of workers, deeply attached to the Quang Ninh mining area, Hai Phong port city and the North-South transportation route of the great rear supporting the great frontline in the resistance war against the US to save the country. He was very successful in building the image of a large generation of new Vietnamese workers who are both genuine, lively and rich in idealism.

Although there is no big statement, only quietly working to create, but in this topic, it can be said that Vuong Lan is a great stage author, a quiet pioneer, has a strong encouraging impact and shows the secret to success for the next generation of stage authors to come to this great topic that is very necessary but also very difficult to succeed.

Journalist Nguyen The Khoa also pointed out that there is a strange thing that while enduring the destructive B52 bombings of the US imperialists with the people of Hanoi , Vuong Lan calmly sat down to write the play "Hand in Hand" or "For Tomorrow" about the story of Vietnamese people on both sides resolving hatred, harmonizing with each other, and finding a common future...

The workshop received the participation and sharing of opinions from many researchers, writers, poets, and stage authors.

Sharing at the workshop, many researchers, stage authors, writers, and poets together clarified the great contributions of playwright Vuong Lan to literature and stage.

Associate Professor, Doctor Luu Khanh Tho affirmed: Vuong Lan's plays are a voice reflecting the life that is happening with a fresh, close reality. He has the ability to turn everyday characters into artistic examples to increase the appeal of the work. In that way, he has met the requirements of reflecting and explaining the burning, important issues of society. The characters seem to have come from life onto the stage. The stage becomes a forum for exchange, discussion, and interaction between the author and the audience.

In her speech, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Thai emphasized: "In addition to agreeing with seniors: Associate Professor Tat Thang and poet Bang Sy Nguyen with their accurate comments on the poetics of playwriting and the quiet uniqueness of Vuong Lan in his scriptwriting, I especially see that he has passed on to his own descendants a playwriting language that is rich in the imagery of feature films."

People's Artist Le Chuc shared at the Workshop.

At the workshop, many artists such as Poet Tran Dang Khoa, Vice President of the Vietnam Writers Association; writer Ngo Thao; playwright Le Quy Hien; People's Artist Le Chuc... proposed that there should be a State Award for the contributions of playwright Vuong Lan. According to People's Artist Le Chuc, playwright Vuong Lan, together with a generation of artists, created the golden age of Vietnamese theater. The silence of playwright Vuong Lan is the silence of great souls, great artists...

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