In 1986, a group of Peking Opera players, being keenly aware of the decline of traditional Chinese Opera, began thinking seriously about how to integrate traditional Chinese Opera with modern Theater. Thanks to the efforts of Wu Hsing-kuo, WEI Hai-ming and other equally enthusiastic young Peking Opera players, Contemporary Legend Theater (CLT) was founded.
Adapted from Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, The Kingdom of Desire—CLT's first play—sought to fuse the singing, acting, reciting, and acrobatic fighting of traditional Chinese Opera with Western canons, and presented the performance in Theater forms. The performance successfully subverted the playgoers' recognition of Peking Opera and created a totally new aesthetic in Eastern Theater...
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