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The Kindness of Strangers: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on the Chinese Stage
Abstract
This article is a study of Chinese (re)interpretations of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire on the stage, more particularly, the 1988 production by Tianjin People’s Art Theatre, the 2002 production by Shanghai Theatre Academy, and the 2016 (reproduced 2017-2019) production by Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. These three productions, set against the backdrop of three decades of dramatic changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores, show a trajectory of deepening kindness in the form of understanding and overcoming sociocultural and moral barriers to empathize and identify with strangers as ourselves.
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Zhang, Wei and Qi, Shouha
(2021)
"The Kindness of Strangers: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on the Chinese Stage,"
Comparative Drama: Vol. 54:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol54/iss1/5