Chinese Drama

One of my classmates invited me to the school theater, where she played a small part in traditional Chinese drama. So I took my Taiwanese friend and we went there. Traditional drama is extremely interesting, maybe not the plot, because I could not understand anything, but clothes. Clothes, the way of actors played, music and stenography – it looked beautiful. My friend tried to explain shortly, what is the plot about, and which characters are “elves”, “judges”, “humans” and so on… The point is, that suddenly I felt so lucky, cause I had a chance to participate in such an event. The Chinese drama theater is completely different from European – not only the clothes, but the way the actors moves, express feeling, show emotions, talk and sing. Male actors, who plays young man use special voice, they must raise the tone, so they sound girlish. The language they use is not typical – we had a subtitles, because the way of speaking and singing is different form the spoken language. My friend mentioned, that this “language” is even difficult to understand for natives. It was not mandarin, not Taiwanese – it was a special drama language, so subtitles were necessary. It is hard to express the filling, as everyone perceives the art in a different way. For me the performance was unforgettable and I will definitely go again if I have one more chance.

Performance poster