Theatre Performance

Stage One, Stage@Leeds

February 2022

Leading actor

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This doctoral project, conducted by Yaxin Luo, researches the intercultural issues raised for a Chinese artist when composing a feminist adaptation of an episode from a Qing dynasty classic (also known as one of the Four Chinese Great Classical Novels) A Dream of Red Mansions for contemporary UK audiences. This adaptation contextualises contemporary female issues, especially reflecting on female independence/ dilemmas/ suicide, and female relationships under the patriarchal system. This work explores how adaptation, feminism, and intermediality could inform each other in theatre performance, while breaking the boundary between onstage/offstage and integrating the immersive effects of theatre, cinema and gallery.