No ordinary days: After a century of internationalism, Chinese spoken...

American Theatre;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......intellectuals nearly a hundred years ago, spoken drama in China has been distinctly international...more than 350 regional forms, huaju (spoken drama) was adopted as part of the New Culture...heavily influenced by Eugene O'Neill--spoken drama in China soon became a propaganda tool...

Tradition, change, and continuity in Chinese theatre in the last hundred...

Asian Theatre Journal;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Commemorating the centenary of the spoken drama's introduction into China in 1907, the...just a century ago, of the huaju, or spoken drama. For most of its history huaju has been...regards it as the first real Chinese spoken drama because before that our country had...

act

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      31 words ...act (Fr., acte ; Ger., Aufzug ; It., atto ). After the model of spoken drama, the formal subdivision of an opera (indicated as such by the composer), often further subdivided into scenes or tableaux.

Significant Other: Staging the American in China.(Book Review)

Asian Theatre Journal;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Chinese theatre that became known as spoken drama, or huaju, has served as a barometer...Claire Conceison is well aware, Chinese spoken drama remains on the sidelines of both theatre...microperiods. Each step of the way, spoken drama, both in process and in product, encapsulates...

A Chinese director's theory of performance: on Jiao Juyin's system of...

Asian Theatre Journal;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......a distinguished director of Chinese spoken drama. The selections translated here highlight...of Mental Images and On Nationalizing Spoken Drama. The first represents his adaptation...realistic drama, which gave birth to Chinese spoken drama, with the techniques and aesthetic ...

The impact of shinpa on early Chinese huaju.(EMERGING SCHOLARS PAPERS)

Asian Theatre Journal;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the formation of early Chinese huaju (spoken drama), also known as xinju (new drama) or...marked the beginning of Chinese huaju (spoken drama). The fact that this epoch-making event...theatre from traditional opera to modern spoken drama. The Japanese Connection Perhaps the...

From Zheng Qiang to Jiang Shuiying: the feminization of a revolutionary...

Asian Theatre Journal;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......River in which the male hero of the 1964 spoken drama version was changed to a female in the...conclusions. Taking as a case study the 1964 spoken drama Song of the Dragon River and its 1972...Branch Secretary Zheng Qiang in the spoken drama version to the female Brigade Party...

Don't miss final part of top Cantonese serial

The Malay Mail;  February 8, 1999 ;     119 words ......struggles of three formidable women - Sau Hau, Man Fung and Ding Man during turbulent periods in China's history in this century...Man (as Sau Hau), Tang Shui Man (Man Fung) and Siu Mei Kei (Ding Man). Also in the cast are Ma Jing Tao, Lam Wai Sun, Sheung Tin...

IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1928: Hunt for Talking Actors

International Herald Tribune;  May 30, 2003 ;     77 words ......presumably authentic, that secret technical processes, recently mastered, will before another year make possible a perfect presentation of spoken drama, far surpassing the present talking movie and enabling an end to the dumb show of pantomime.

thespian

A New Dictionary of Eponyms;      172 words ......answering the questions. Thus theatrical dialogue was created between the leader and the responder, and—presto—spoken drama had an auspicious start. Since Thespis is believed to have spoken these parts, this Attic poet has been considered the first...

Significant Other: Staging the American in China

The China Journal;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......painstakingly followed the creative development of Chinese spoken drama for more than fifteen years, perusing many scripts and critical...intra-cultural integration of traditional Beijing opera into modern spoken drama is a wonderful piece of double-entendre superficially playing...

OPERA

Evening Standard - London;  December 11, 2006 ;     201 words ......City of London itself. In truth "opera" is hardly the word. It's closer to melodrama as Mozart would have understood it: spoken drama (libretto by John Jordan and James Marriott) interwoven with music (by Isa Suarez). Mozart, though, would not have understood...

The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in the Nineteenth Century/Verdi's...

Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......encourages one to draw between the development of grand opera and spoken drama in the nineteenth century. Gerhard centres his study on the...describes a crucial change of direction that occurred in the spoken drama as well; while the historic turn occurred in drama toward...

During Tet, Postwar Reflections: Celebration and questioning at a...

American Theatre;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......themselves. The two genres that dominate the scene - modern spoken drama (kich noi) and cai luong - developed concurrently at the...especially popular these days, it is often written as both a spoken drama and a cai luong. But other theatrical forms also hold sway...

D.C. Dance Theatre's `Mango Suite'

The Washington Post;  January 26, 1998 ;     300 words ......but as "Mango Suite" had its second production at George Washington University's Marvin Center over the weekend, it was the spoken drama that dominated. Smith's text tells two stories. One is a chamber drama about a suffocatingly close family -- a mother, a...