If I meet you years later,
How can I greet you?
With silence and tears.
Death of Spring has only three actors, and the story spans only one year. The title of the play comes from Byron's poem When We Are Parting, which originally described the sadness of lovers' parting, but the parting of two women in the play was more hopeful and warm, and the last sentence of the poem became with joy and pearls.
Compared with "Four Machines", "Death of Spring" has no sense of fatigue brought by a big drama. Through different stage performance and arrangement changes, the rhythm is brisk, and the comments between chapters and ink paintings are well received. In the spotlight, three people took turns sitting in chairs to appeal that their difficulties were a colorful channel. Finally, the duet was accompanied by a beautiful ending song, and tears filled my eyes in an instant.
The golden sentences, joking words and philosophy of life frequently appeared in women's mouths, from which we can see the stubbornness and struggle against injustice of female researchers in the Republic of China, which has a rare female perspective. With the help of exquisite costumes, the audience seems to have returned to the era when two outstanding women lived when they were young. They discuss whether there are differences between men and women in scientific research, the criteria for choosing a spouse, and the "relativity" between time and optimism. Every character is lively and lovely.
If you insist on finding fault, as a story based on the real prototype, the friendship between the two women is warm and really appreciates each other, but I think there is nothing ambiguous in it, and it is a little uncomfortable to be suspected of being a lily in the play; The other two women also lost some pen and ink in the process of getting along well with each other. It feels so sudden.
Nine people are already ten years old, and it feels like a long time since we met.