A Study on the Popuarization of Theatre in China in the 1930s (3) : Play in a Theater-free Place: The Experiment of the Peasant Theater by Fauci Hsiung

This study is last part of a series of papaers to comprehensively iook at the practice of popuarization of plays in China in the 1930s. The popularization of plays by the Fauci Hsiung group active in Dingxian was examined. First, the factors that influenced the theater experiment in Dingxian were examined through the relationship between the Common People’s Education Promotion Association and Yan Yangchu’s rural construction experiment, the trajectory of Fauci Hsiung, and the left-wing theater. In addition, the regional characteristics of Dingxian and the spatial strategy of Fauci Hsiung were examined, and the process of forming ‘Communitas’ was examined. Dingxian had the characteristics of a national control area and a rural area. Although it was an underdeveloped area, it had a modern foundation due to the efforts of the Chinese Civilians Education Promotion Association, had no tension with the regime as a non-left wing, and thanks to the foundation of the Chinese Civilians Education Promotion Association, Dingxian was a stable and friendly space. The Fauci Hsiung Group built an open-air theater using a settlement strategy, and it was seen that this strategy worked effectively in directing the play.