Abstract
This paper is about 〈In The Silence〉(1978), 〈Why am I Dead?〉(1979), 〈Red Dresses Are In Fashion〉(1983), 〈The Silent Happiness · Magic Cube〉(1985) and 〈Ghost City〉(1987) with leading female characters of the 80s. I study the social conditions and meanings of the representations of the female protagonists and analyze the transitional culture that failed to position the women protagonists as central characters of the time.<BR> In five plays, the women characters reflect repressed desires for speech during the Cultural Revolution. Their pathological silence is from mental illness, damaged body or disability, and to overcome, they ‘speak’; speaking of disclosure, rejection and desire. In the change of the types of speaking, female protagonists evolve from social to individual beings.
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