Author: Tian Mansha
Posted by: tangerding-axel
Source: www.meta-theater.com



Several years ago, I heard this story. In a Chuanju troupe based in a small county in Sichuan, there was an old artist who was unable to read or write but from a young age had learned to perform hundreds of traditional pieces. During the Cultural Revolution, he was named a Rightist and was forbidden from performing on the stage. He was very worried that he would start to forget the pieces he had learned during his labor re-education so every day at the break of dawn he would silently sneak into ...
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2010-01-05 22:54:37