China Seminar | 12 January 2006
Yang Family Women Generals in Hawaii
The ongoing exchange program between the Jiangsu Province Jingju Company and the University of Hawaii is over 25 years old, and is currently training and mounting its sixth production of English-language Jingju—the widely popular 1960s play Women Generals of the Yang Family. How are Jingju plays chosen for University of Hawaii training and production? How are the scripts and music, the movement and combat, adapted for American college performers? How is training conducted, and what is the design process for these cross-cultural exchanges? Dr. Wichmann-Walczak and the three master teachers will explore these and other pertinent issues through lively discussion and demonstration.
Biographical sketches available at talk.
Mid-February performances beginning February 10, 2006 at Kennedy Theatre.