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This anthology is a collection of four contemporary Chinese plays by the playwright Wan Fang, presented in the original Chinese and in English translation. Since the 1990s, modern Chinese drama has experienced a revival, and these plays are representative of the kind of theatre which audiences in China now enjoy. The time is ripe for them to be staged internationally through the medium of translation. This book provides Chinese and English versions consecutively, to enable the plays to be used for study or performance. The volume also offers an introduction to the development of modern Chinese drama over the twentieth century, as a background to the plays included here. In addition, Wan Fang's own introduction to the writing of plays, and these plays in particular, gives us insights into the mechanisms of writing and staging in a twenty-first-century Chinese context.

Twenty-First-Century Chinese Drama: Four Plays by Wan Fang

CONTENTS: Valerie Pellatt: Introduction: The twentieth-century context of Wan Fang's twenty-first-century plays - Wan Fang: Speech delivered at Newcastle University Drama Translation Colloquium May 2014 - Chinese transcript - English translation - (Chinese script) - Murder on the Lalian River (English translation of ) - (Chinese script) - Winterreise (English translation of ) - (Chinese script) - Poison (English translation of ) - (Chinese script) - Reflections on writing Poison (English translation of ) - (Chinese script) - Relationships (English translation of ).