Fox Cat: A Peking Opera Set in the Song Dynasty

by John D. Mitchell (Translator)

Overview

This Peking Opera tale from the Song Dynasty was the likely catalyst for Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird. Newly translated and adapted, it contains the original Chinese text on facing pages. Paired with The Green Bird, the two plays vividly contrast the dramaturgy of two diverse cultures within the same basic story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873590419
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1985
Edition description:	Lst ed.
Pages:	429
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

John D. Mitchell is Co-Founder and President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts. As author, stage director, and actor, Dr. Mitchell under the aegis of IASTA, has presented twenty-two productions directed by internationally famous master artists. Dr. Mitchell speaks seven languages, two of them Asian. He translated and produced off-Broadway Phedre, Butterfly Dream, Gladiators Thirty Millions and House of Fools. He is the author of The Red Pear Garden, Wild Board Forest, Theatre: The Search for Style, and Macbeth Unjinxed (based on John Blatchley’s production of Macbeth). He also translated Verlaine’s poems Femmes/Hombres. In collaboration with Donald Chang, he translated and adapted the Peking Opera, The Fox Cat Substituted for the Crown Prince, he was a contributor to Appreciating the Nine Five, and he co-authored the musical Live Life to the Hilt. He has produced and narrated twenty-five films on the humanities and aspects of international theatre styles. From 1944 to 1948 Dr. Mitchell was co-director of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts for The American Broadcasting Company. He lives in New York City, is married, and has two sons and a daughter.