William Shakespeare's The Tempest will play at Beijing
Capital Theater from June 21 to 24 to mark the theatre's 100th
anniversary.
"It is Shakespeare's final play, and arguably his finest," said
Barrie Rutter, founder and artistic director of the UK-based
Northern Broadsides Theatre Company, which is staging the
production.
"The play is rich in the very stuff of human drama - young love,
brooding revenge, broad humor and touching forgiveness," he
said.
The fact that the majority of the Chinese audience may not be
able to understand the English play does not worry Rutter.
"Redemption, forgiveness, charity, virtue, faith in the next
generation and overall love are the final abiding emotions in the
play. They are as contemporary now as they have ever been and
easily recognizable by young or old, Chinese or British," he
said.
The theatre company is planning to put on Romeo and
Juliet at the Beijing Olympics Arts Festival in 2008.
(Xinhua News Agency May 30, 2007)
