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China, Theatre and History
"The Szechwan Tale"
FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea
Via Piranesi 10 Milano
12th April to 15th July 2018

"The figure of Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), one of the most famous Peking Opera artists, which influenced Russian and German avant-garde theater will be central to the exhibition.

(...) contemporary art, theatre and Chinese history in relationship with the West within a sort of meta-theatre in which a series of international and Chinese artists provide a deconstruction of the tools of the theatric machine, such as: the audience, the curtain, the actors (the automaton, the puppet, the shadow theater), the costumes and the backdrops (a changing and unchanging environment), the text and the music, as metaphors of an equal number of social phenomena and of their historic nature.

The title of the exhibition is a reference to the theatrical work by Bertolt Brecht The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan) written in 1938-1941, also staged by Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 1957-58."

http://www.fmcca.it/en/21/eve/54-the-szechwan-tale/