"The house of tea", a drama of Lao She

A drama that develops in a limited space spreading in half a century of the history of China. In three acts in which the same one develops the spectator goes on from the frustration after the defeat of the reforming movement, across the frustration that continued at the end of Yuan Shikai, finishing in the one that took place after the end of the second world war.

The protagonist of the drama is China, this abstract entity filled with persons who suffer the history that a few absent personages of the work design.

The attitudes that oppress this China, the personages who make suffer this population, are supported throughout the decades, across three acts of the work, only they change his uniforms, like these police officers who appear by the house of tea where this personages' selection parades, continuously oppressing the defenseless one. There are different the owners to whom they serve, and the secondary personages who seem to represent them.

One wonders: Is it the proper Chinese people the one that oppresses China, to the proper village? Does stay the hope that as soon as these systems were finished the oppression of the man for the man disappears? The illusion remains in this work still because the end of these oppressive systems will finish the oppression of the man for the man.

Lao She, which suffered the excesses of the Cultural revolution, of course would have written one more act to this work if it could have survived.

The last question that inevitably the reader rises to himself: Has it managed or is it about to managing to liberate the Chinese village of this historical dynamics that throughout the centuries has oppressed him? Can the Chinese liberate of anything that looks like an innate Chinese being?

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