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Year

1991

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Aufführung von Deng dai Geduo = Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett an der Central Academy of Drama, unter der Regie von Meng Jinghui.
Meng Jinghui : Is there anyone in the audience truly willing to go on an adventure with us to shatter this illusory mirage, to rebuild a remembered homeland, and to capture, as far as our eyes can reach, the landscape that surrounds us ? This is what we want to know. To kindle the embers of our passion, safeguard our abode of existence, and look back with more intense candour, wakefulness and vigilance – this is what we can do. It is a pity that for various reasons we have not been able to materialize our dreams on the stage, when the mere throught of these dreams has left us quivering with thrills.
Cao Xueping : The audience sat on the stage and watched the two 'angry young tramps', Hu Jun as Vladimir and Guo Tao as Estragon, waiting for Godot, and displaying the irrational rebellion and depression of youth. The presententeion, in the words of Meng, was 'suppressed, unstilted, marked by its cruelty, poetry and violence – the violence of language and the violence of violence'. As the violence mounted, Vladimir smashed the window panes with his sizeable black umbrella and brought the performance to an end.

Mentioned People (2)

Beckett, Samuel  (Dublin 1906-1989 Paris) : Irischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Nobel-Preisträger

Meng, Jinghui  (1964-) : Theater-Direktor, Regisseur

Subjects

Literature : Occident : Ireland : Theatre

Documents (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 2000 Meng, Jinghui. Deng dai Geduo dao yan de hua. In : Xian feng xi ju dang an. Meng Jinghui bian. (Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she, 2000). [Waiting for Godot [by Samuel Beckett] production notes].
等待戈多导演的话
Publication / Beck21
  • Cited by: Lie, Jianxi ; Ingham, Mike. The reception of Samuel Beckett in China. In : The international reception of Samuel Beckett. Ed. By Mark Nixon and Matthew Feldman. (London : Continuum, 2009). (Beck16, Published)
  • Person: Beckett, Samuel
  • Person: Meng, Jinghui
2 2009 Lie, Jianxi ; Ingham, Mike. The reception of Samuel Beckett in China. In : The international reception of Samuel Beckett. Ed. By Mark Nixon and Matthew Feldman. (London : Continuum, 2009). Publication / Beck16
  • Source: [Beckett, Samuel]. A, mei hao de ri zi. Xiao Lian, Jiang Fan yi. In : Dang dai wai guo wen xue ; vol. 2 (1981). Übersetzung von Beckett, Samuel. Happy days : a play in two acts. (London : Faber and Faber ; New York, N.Y. : Grove Press, 1961). [Erstaufführung Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, 1961]. (Beck17, Publication)
  • Source: [Beckett, Samuel]. Ju zhong. Feng Hanlu yi. In : Dang dai wai guo wen xue ; vol. 2 (1981). Übersetzung von Beckett, Samuel. Endgame : a play in one act ; followed by Act without words. (London : Faber and Faber, 1958). [Erstaufführung Royal Court Theatre, London 1957]. (Beck18, Publication)
  • Source: Lo, Irving. Waiting for Godot in the People's Republic of China. In : Journal of Beckett studies ; vol. 11-12 (1989). (Beck20, Publication)
  • Source: [Beckett, Samuel]. Pulusite lun. Shen Rui, Huang Wei yi. In : Pulusite lun. (Bejing : She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 1999). Übersetzung von Beckett, Samuel. Proust. (New York, N.Y. : Grove Press, 1931). (The Dolphin books ; 7). (Beck19, Publication)
  • Source: Meng, Jinghui. Deng dai Geduo dao yan de hua. In : Xian feng xi ju dang an. Meng Jinghui bian. (Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she, 2000). [Waiting for Godot [by Samuel Beckett] production notes].
    等待戈多导演的话 (Beck21, Publication)
  • Cited by: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB, Organisation)
  • Person: Beckett, Samuel
  • Person: Lie, Jianxi