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SUMMARY:Online Talk: 'To laugh or not to laugh' - Contemporary Chinese Th
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DESCRIPTION:Theatre is an art of coming together in presence. Therefore\,
  it might not be surprising that we do not hear much of Chinese theatre 
 in recent months. In my talk I would like to address one of the most liv
 ely and surprising phenomena in contemporary Chinese theatre: the differ
 ent kinds of theatrical comedies. While most of the histories and collec
 tions of Chinese plays available in English do not pay much attention to
  comedic plays\, some of the most discussed plays of recent years are ex
 actly this: funny\, ironic\, satiric\, grotesque\, entertaining\, comedi
 c theatre and performances. It could even be argued that comedic element
 s are indispensable aspects in any kind of contemporary Chinese theatre.
  In my talk I will draw on examples by Nick Yu\, Wen Fangyi\, Huang Weir
 uo\, Lin Weiran\, Guo Shixing\, and Li Jing and I will focus both on the
  written plays as well as on the stage production in order to illuminate
  some facets of the enormous multiplicity of comedy in contemporary Chin
 ese theatre. I will also discuss some selected text passages from my tra
 nslations of comedies in order to illustrate which kinds of humour and j
 okes can be found in Chinese theatre - and to discuss together how we ca
 n understand as well as translate them.\n
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