China and the West

Rede von Huang Zuolin am Seminar of China's Inaugural Shakespeare Festival.
Er sagt : "Our conventional theater has already lost more and more audiences. If we use our drama to perform Shakespeare's plays, the production might be 'neither fish nor fowl', which would make the situation of our conventional theater even worse and damage the intact theatrical tradition. We can find a lot of common characteristics in Shakespeare's drama and traditional Chinese drama. We can also see some strong points in each which the two types of drama may learn from each other. There is no doubt that we shall make more contributions to the theatrical circles of the world if we perform Shakespeare's plays by using some stage techniques of traditional Chinese drama when we introduce the works of this great dramatic poet to Chinese audiences. And in the meantime we can make our brilliant theatrical tradition and consummate stage techniques known to countries all over the world."