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INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION Thepaper sgathere di nthi sboo kwer eprepare di n connectionwit hth eHon gKon gInternationa lBrech t Seminarhel di nth eGoeth eInstitut ean dth eUniversit yo f HongKon gfro mMarc h16-20t h1981 .A lis to fspeaker s andtranslator sa tth een do fthi svolume .Th eSemina r wouldno thav ebee npossibl ewithou tth eenergeti csuppor t ofD rKlau sVetter ,Directo ro fth eGoeth eInstitute ,Hon g Kongan dD rEdwar dChen ,Directo ro fth eCentr eo fAsia n Studies,Universit yo fHon gKong .Fo rfurthe rgenerou s materialsuppor tw ear emos tgratefu lt oth eBritis h Councilan dth eChines eUniversit yo fHon gKong .W eals o appreciateth eservice so fRowen aMay-ta kKwan ,Luci a Yuen-mayLeung ,Mathe wWing-kwon gLeung ,L iSiu-leun g andYun gSai-shing . Whati smissin gi nthi svolum ear eth eperformance s wewitnesse dan dth ewide-rangin gdiscussion sfo rwhic h theyserve da sa focus .W esa wtw oproduction si n Cantonese:Ma ni sMa nperforme db yth eSeal sTheatr e Company,directe db yRol fStahl ,Munic han dVick iOoi , HongKong ,an da versio no fH eWh oSa yYe san dH eWh o SaysN odevise dan ddirecte db yBernadett eTsu ifo r simultaneousperformanc ei nth eDram aLaborator yo fth e Departmento fEnglis hStudie san dComparativ eLitera ture ,Universit yo fHon gKong .W eals osa wvideotape so f theBeijin gLif eo fGalile oan do fKore aSenda' sJapanes e productiono fTh eCaucasia nChal kCircle .Som esens eo f therang eo fthes ediscussion sca nperhap sb eobtaine d froma repor to nth eSemina rentitle d'Brech ti nEas tAsia : Reflectionso na Seminar 1 whic hI wrot efo rCommuni cations fro mth eInternationa lBrech tSociet y(Vol .10 ,No . 3[Jul y1981] ,pp .3-14) .Anothe rfacto ri nth echang eo f medium,fro mvisibl ean daudibl et owritte ncommunica tion ,ca nb eillustrate db yth ewell-know nShangha i directorHuan gZuolin' spresentation .I twa saccompanie d bya film ,speciall ymad efo rth eSeminar ,whic hillustrate d thetechnique sfro mth eChines eOper at owhic hhi spape r refers. 2 Introduction Insom esense ,thes epaper sconstitut ea uniqu e collection.The ycertainl ycontai ninformatio nabou t Brechtan dth etheatr ei nChin aan dEas tAsi atha ti sno t widelyknown .Som eo fthe mnee dsensitiv ereading ,the y needt ob econtextualize dan dthe nwha tma ysee mt o WesternBrechtian sa familia rargumen tbecomes ,whe nw e readbetwee nth elines ,par to fa livel yan dver ypressin g debateabou tth edirectio no fmoder ntheatre .Bu tth e papersspea kfo rthemselve san dw enotic eth edifferen t positionstaken ,i nparticular ,o nth ecrucia lquestio no fth...