Guiding Principles: A New Play Takes Hong Kong’s Educational System To Task
From an early age, we are taught that right and wrong are two distinct entities, just as easily...
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All Wuzhen’s A Stage, But It’s Not Yet A Big Player
After a divisive Wuzhen Theatre Festival, the Chinese theater must reassess its priorities. The...
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A Tragedy With A Happy Ending: “The Emperor And The Concubine” By The China National Peking Opera Company At London’s Sadler’s Wells
The long-term collaboration between the China National Peking Opera Company (Guojia jingju yuan)...
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Peking Opera At The British Library: The Triumph Of Xieyi
As part of the China Focus Events Series, the British Library, in collaboration with Sinolink...
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The Futility Of Mediated Communication: “Together” At Camden Underground
Exploring the common phenomenon of livestream communication in modern society, the performance...
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A Return To The Body: TAO Dance Theatre And Its “Straight Line Trilogy”
Established by the choreographer Tao Ye in 2008, TAO Dance Theatre is an anomaly in the world of...
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A Performative View on Kafka’s “The Great Wall” by Paper Tiger Theatre Studio (Beijing)
In May and August 2017, respectively, Theater der Welt in Hamburg and The Shanghai Ming...
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Empty Theaters And False Hopes: The Reality Of VR Film
VR film buffs are still trying to crack the code of blockbuster flicks, even now that the hype and...
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The Man Who Played With Fire
Cai Guoqiang is known for his explosive works, but the Chinese artist is now going back to his...
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Curating LookOUT, The First Chinese Arts Festival On Gender: An Interview With Fabrizio Massini
The LookOUT Arts Festival, presented by Ibsen International, takes place in Beijing from July...
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Modern Man’s Predicament: Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian As A Tragic Playwright
The place of dramatic tragedy in the twentieth century was one of extreme ambiguity and...
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Cross-cultural Encounters In World Theatre: Bertolt Brecht, The “Alienation” Effect And Chinese Drama
The German playwright and drama theorist Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is particularly famous for...
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Chinese Vagina Monologues And Beyond
On March 20 2018, VaChina, a London-based Chinese feminist network, staged its first full drama...
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Reinventing Shakespeare In Chinese And Sinophone Theatres
Along with a number of Japanese and Western canonical poets and writers, Shakespeare and his works...
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Li Cunxin, The Ballet Star Who Could Never Really Leave The Stage
Chinese-Australian dancer Li Cunxin has been enjoying his long yet productive retirement for...
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Reinterpreting The Tradition: A Contemporary Retelling Of Tang Xianzu’s “The Handan Dream” By The Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre
Conceived in 2016 in Guangzhou and previously performed in Beijing and St. Petersburg, the...
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Fredric Mao Blasts Away Convention in a New Cantonese Opera
This article is brought to you by the 46th edition of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. If all you know...
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Colliding Traditions Keep Chinese Opera Alive and Well
Chinese opera is as expansive and diverse as China itself – and it continues to thrive in the face...
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How a Bunch of Americans Preserved a Dying Chinese Tradition
The art of shadow puppetry spent much of the 20th century in decline in China, but over in the US,...
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Manuel Pelmus Examines The Performance Art Of Hong Kong Protest
When asked to pick one word that describes the city of Hong Kong, Romanian performance artist...
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