Mei Lanfang: A Case against and a Model for the Occidental Stage

Banu, Georges; Wiswell, Ella Lury; Gibson, June V.

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“…In recent years Mei Lanfang's performance in Russia and its impact on Brecht and Russian theatre artists have been well documented and investigated. 2 What is missing in recent studies of twentieth-century intercultural theatre, however, is Craig's contacts with Mei Lanfang and his interest in the Chinese theatre.…”

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Gordon Craig, Mei Lanfang and the Chinese Theatre

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2007

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Edward Gordon Craig's 1935 visit to Russia coincided with Mei Lanfang's 1935 performance in Russia. While Mei Lanfang's performance and its impact on Brecht and Russian theatre artists have been well documented and studied in recent years, Craig's contacts with the Chinese actor and his interest in the Chinese theatre, however, have yet to be investigated. Drawing on previously unpublished archive materials and other rarely used sources, this article for the first time documents Craig's contacts with Mei Lanfang during his visit to Russia. It also investigates his interest in the Chinese theatre in the context of his theoretical construction of the art of the theatre and his overall interest in the traditions of Asian theatres.

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Gordon Craig, Mei Lanfang and the Chinese Theatre

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2007

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The Making of a Revolutionary Stage: Chinese Model Theatre and Its Western Influences

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2000

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Mei Lanfang and Stanislavsky: The (De)construction of an Intercultural Myth on the International Stage

Tian¹

2020

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Mei Lanfang's contact with Stanislavsky during his 1935 tour in the Soviet Union and the latter's often-cited ‘appraisal’ of the acting of traditional Chinese theatre have exerted a profound and lasting influence on the Chinese understanding and evaluation of the art of their traditional theatre. Through extensive research into the related archival material, as well as contemporary records, this article investigates the historical facts and circumstances that underlie this historic intercultural moment on the twentieth-century international stage. It unweaves the historical construction of this remarkable intercultural phenomenon and exposes its political and ideological underpinnings as well as its theatrical and artistic placements and displacements. It underscores the necessity of deconstructing the creation of such an intercultural myth for today's historical understanding of the art of traditional Chinese theatre and, by implication, in a larger context, of the global making of twentieth-century intercultural theatre.

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Mei Lanfang: A Case against and a Model for the Occidental Stage

Cited by 8 publications

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Gordon Craig, Mei Lanfang and the Chinese Theatre

Gordon Craig, Mei Lanfang and the Chinese Theatre

The Making of a Revolutionary Stage: Chinese Model Theatre and Its Western Influences

Mei Lanfang and Stanislavsky: The (De)construction of an Intercultural Myth on the International Stage

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