Kunqu Essays

In her dream, she is unconfined by any social limitations. Not only is she able to interact with a man, Liu Mengmei, they ultimately consummate their love in the Peony Pavilion. The fact that Bridal Du is able to even imagine having sexual relations with a man outside of marriage demonstrates the amount of freedom she feels in her dream. When she awakens, however, she realizes that what she experienced in her dream is not something she can find in reality because her life is still strictly controlled

“Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” is originally one of the eight model plays, which was allowed to be performed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The story is based on the novel Lin Hai Xue Yuan by Qu Bo. The novel was written in honor of an incident that happened during the Chinese civil war in 1946. The play is about a communist reconnaissance team soldier named Yang Zirong, who pretends to be a gang member to infiltrate a local gang of bandits. He does so to help the main communist part

(Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters) (Bando Tamasaburo V profile n.d). Tamasaburo is not only work as a Kabuki actor but also a dancer, adirector, a movie actor. Besides that, he has exprienced others form of theatre such as Shakespeare play and Kunqu- a chinese opera (Bando Tamasaburo V profile n.d). It is no doubt to say that he is an amazing person,