China and the West

Performance of The great god Brown by Eugene O'Neill under the direction of Mou Sen and his Qing wa shi yan ju tuan (Frog Experimental Troupe) in Beijing. Mou Sen turned the play into a not necessarily perfect but definitely formal and solemn ritual : "Its masks failed to reveal the characters' profound fear and helplessness while they juggled their souls. Neither did the production achieve a better integration of its slow rhythm, simple mise en scène and conscious alienation effect. Yet in the blue light that immersed the stage, caught by Margaret's largo monologue and the tragic aura pervading the theater, the audience could still arrive at a touching moment of sublimation in the end."