{"id":1545,"date":"2014-04-17T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=1545"},"modified":"2023-01-26T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:48:12","slug":"my-life-on-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/my-life-on-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life on the Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mei Lan Fang was born in Peking in 1894 and died there in 1961. He was one of the most famous Peking Opera artists in modern history.<\/p>\n

“My Life on the Stage” is a selection of his writings published in Chinese Literature Monthly<\/em> in 1961. This book (that is in English) was printed in 1986 by ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) in Italy to mark the fiftieth birthday of Eugenio Barba.<\/p>\n

The book also contains “The Enchanter from the Pear Garden”, an article by S.M. Eisenstein on the occasion of Mei Lan Fang’s performances in Moscow, published in Theatre Arts Monthly<\/em> in 1935.<\/p>\n\n\n