On September 11, I enjoyed the China tour of this official West End musical at SAIC Culture Plaza. After its first performance in London's West End in 1976, the musical became one of Weber's masterpieces. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the play was completed at a time when the relationship between the United Kingdom and Argentina was very tense. Argentina was very unhappy that the British wrote about their former "mother of the country", but Argentina's cultural influence is indeed still. Can't compare to the three-century-old empire, and despite their disapproval of the show at the time, the musical received a very serious acclaim in English-speaking society.
The play briefly summarizes the life of Evita, a legendary woman, an illegitimate daughter of the upper class, Eva Duart, who was full of love and warmth in her childhood, eager to change her trajectory in the "Big Apple" Buenos Aires. Wandering among men, for my use, without emotion, with the resources given to her by different men step by step to become a lady of the "Big Apple". She was not satisfied with this, and the poverty she experienced made him decide to work for the poor. So, she began to get involved in politics and began to do weekly radio programs for ordinary people. At the same time, she used her beauty to meet political and military figures, until a speech on the street for the San Juan earthquake, the military dictator, then labor secretary Juan Veron fell in love with her at first sight and became Veron's second any wife. At only 26 years old, she has reached heights that many people yearn for, but her ambitions don't stop there. She encouraged her husband to resign from the army and used "left" policy ideas to win over the support of the poor. Belon was elected president as she wished. Mrs. Belon bought the support of the poor class by dissolving capitalist assets, misappropriated state treasury capital to realize dreams for the poor, and used her own experience to package her politics as the mother of the people. With the support of European countries, it is called "rainbow tour". Except for the stodgy Britain who did not receive her, Western society can be said to have paid attention to this "mother of the country" figure. Her goals don't stop there. She wants to govern at the same time as her husband, to be her husband's deputy and vice president. But her increasingly weak body could not support her beliefs. She no longer demanded rights, but a tragic way of ending her life as a bargaining chip for her husband's re-election. Her legendary life ended a month after her husband's inauguration, and the whole country mourned, and ordinary people commemorated the first lady who thought of the people. Evita is the people's friendly name for Eva, which means "little Eva".
Two years later, Veron was overthrown by a military coup and went into exile in Spain due to unfavorable economic arrangements. During the first time Veron was in power, he implemented the "Veron Doctrine" political governing program, depriving the bourgeoisie of property to gain the support of trade unions and ordinary people, causing capital to flee Argentina; it only took him three years to empty the wealthy treasury. Argentina has grown from the developed American "Xanadu" that Europeans yearned for before World War II. The beef and dairy products produced in Argentina were once popular in the world, and they are the endorsement of high-quality animal husbandry products. However, it gradually became a developing country, and the economy has since slumped. In the play, CHE serves as both a narrator and a dissident in the play. He criticizes Veron's policies a lot, and makes a certain irony about the freedom of speech that preceded him during his reign.
The drama is over, but the hilarious second half isn't actually over. After Evita passed away, her remains were made into embalmed specimens for the public to pay their respects. In the following seventeen years, she was lost and changed hands several times by different political forces, reflecting the complex views of different forces in Argentina on the modeling movement of Veron. . It was then shipped by the incumbents to Milan, Italy, and returned to Argentina with Veron's re-election as president in the early 1970s. Veron's third wife, another Madame Veron, a dancer-turned-woman, Isabel, was successfully elected vice president this time, and after Veron's death was elected president of Argentina, the modern Latin American country. The first female leader of the system, she copied her predecessor's image to a certain extent, but due to poor governance, conflicts with the cabinet, economic decline, and a military coup to step down.
To a certain extent, this drama in English-speaking countries has given the public a little understanding of Argentina, which is far from what Argentina itself can match, and the public's impression of Argentina is more or less influenced by the British description style. There is no way, after all, the United Kingdom and the United States are relaying the cultural trend of the world. Argentina, which can only protest verbally, must first develop soft power and seize the economy first.
Argentina does not lack such romantic and tragic elements, but without dedicated people to do professional things, those slogans and governance are only a short-lived dream after all.
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