lives of several theater artists, writers, and other intellectuals.In Tian's plays, the most interesting characters are often the female protagonists; ZhuLianxiu, for example, encourages Guan to persevere despite his difficult situation. "Ifyou'll dare to write the play, I'll dare to stage it" (scene 2), Zhu declares, sounding almostlike the woman leader of the Communist Party, who many centuries later promotedprogressive dramas in defiance of KMT censorship. Tian was at his best in dramatizingthe love story between Guan and Zhu, who shared similar aspirations and artistic talents.Their eventual despairing yet romantic separation scene before Guan's banishment intoexile-with their singing to each other the love song written by Guan and performed byZhu-has been judged one of the best combinations of realism and romanticism, a stylepromoted in the Mao era and common in the portrayals of the revolution's martyrs
If I could write a play out of the paragraph, where it mentions realism, the Communist party, and romaticism, I would call the play "Politician In Love". The story would be narrated about a Communist politician who falls in love with a foreign woman, whose country is at war with the politician's government. Their romance will be a forbidden love story of ups and downs, yet it may prove dangerous towards the stake of both nations, as the lovers try to find common ground between the two lands.