Sichuan Opera Theater of Chengdu: Raging Waves in the Sea of Desire
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Acclaimed playwright Xiu Fen " one of China's most influential contemporary women writers " takes Eugene O'Neill's setting and opening plot elements, transforming Puritan New England into a small Chinese village, and focuses on the cruel, miserly old man, his new, very young and beautiful wife, and the young son who enters into an adulterous affair with his father's bride. O'Neill…