Source: Hamlet
Group: Jade Opera Group [Hong Xiu Yu gejutuan]
Premiere: 1997
Place: Taipei
Director: Hong, Xiu Yu
Crew: Huang, Ying-xiong (script); Liu, Wen-liang (music design)
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Cast: Hong, Xiu Yu (Prince Mingheng / Hamlet); Pan, Li-li (Ma, Ru-ying / Ophelia); Xuan Ting (Queen / Gertrude)
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Language: Minnan
Genre: gezaixi (Taiwanese opera)
Year of Recording: 1997
Rights: Jade Opera Group [Hong Xiu Yu gejutuan]
The Sword of Justice [Shengjian pingyuan]
FILES  
Introduction; 
video (1); 
production background (3); 
news (1); 
essay (1)
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In line with traditional Chinese values and xiqu conventions, this adaptation of Hamlet presents a chaste queen, a resolute prince, and a happy ending with zero fatality. Poetic justice is acheived without sacraficing the virtue of forgiveness. Also added to Shakespeare are physical comedy, martial art, and the worship of Mazu. The production is part of the 1997 Taipei Drama Festival.
1.
Data Type: video
Title: Right the Wrong Performance Video
Publisher: Hong Xiuyu Opera Troupe [Hongxiuyu gejutuan]
Date: 1997
Language: Minnan Taiwanese
1.
Data Type: production background
Author: Huang, Ying-xiong
Title: Dramatis Personae
Source: Luohanjiao: Gezaixi Scripts by Huang Ying-xiong [Luohanjiaozai Huang Yingxiong gezaixi juben ji]
Place: Taipei
Publisher: Wenshizhe  Publishing  Co.
Date: 2002/9/1
Pages: 165-166
Language: Chinese
Abstract: a list and description of the roles
2.
Data Type: production background
Author: Huang, Ying-xiong
Title: Synopsis
Source: Luohanjiao: Gezaixi Scripts by Huang Ying-xiong [Luohanjiaozai Huang Yingxiong gezaixi juben ji]
Place: Taipei
Publisher: Wenshizhe  Publishing  Co.
Date: 2002/9/1
Pages: 165
Language: Chinese
Abstract: The story is reset in ancient China, and conforms to Chinese values.
3.
Data Type: production background
Author: Huang, Ying-xiong
Title: Right the Wrong [Shengjian ping yuan]
Source: Huang Ying-xiong's Blog [Huang Yingxiong de dianying buluo]
Publisher: Sina Blog
Date: 2008/3/11
URL: http://blog.sina.com.tw/hero_movie/article.php?pbgid=2803&entryid=580245
Language: Chinese
Abstract: The writer is this production’s playwright. The part in which the queen marries the brother was profoundly adapted in accordance with Taiwan’s sentiments. To meet this production's ideal of happiness and hope, forgiveness and reunion is added to the end. Characters such as Prime Minister Machang, Ma Rulong and Matsu Temple are the playwright’s efforts to localize and place this production in the context of Taiwanese opera. The playwright claims it a successful adaptation.
1.
Data Type: news
Author: Ji, Hui-ling
Title: Based on Hamlet, The Sword of Justice Features Taiwanese Opera [Gaibian zi Hamuleite Shengjian pingyuan hen gezaixi]
Source: Min Sheng Daily [Minsheng bao]
Place: Taipei
Date: 1997/5/10
Language: Chinese
Abstract: The play's script and characterization follow the conventions of gezaixi and even Mazu figures in the play.
1.
Data Type: essay
Author: Hong, Xiu Yu
Title: From Watching, Learning and Performing, to Teaching Drama
Source: sgwritings
Place: Singapore
Publisher: www.sgwritings.com
Date: 2015/2/7
URL: http://www.sgwritings.com/viewnews_56054.html
Language: Chinese
Abstract: This is a transcript of a talk sponsored by Singapore Literature Society. The speaker recalls her fascination with gezaixi and her career in stage performance, radio broadcasr drama, and television boradcast drama, and how the genre evolved into a refined form of art.