The Life Opinions of Two Dogs

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I watched this drama on the 21st of June in Beijing oriental avant-garde theatre.

Brief introduction:

After fleeing the countryside, two dogs named Wang Cai and Lai Fu (literally meaning "wealthy" and "good luck" in Chinese), travel to city in search of happiness and full of dreams. However, they soon find that things aren't as wonderful as they've imagined. The dogs, sometimes loved and sometimes abandoned, they philosophize about many issues: social phenomenon, poverty, love affairs, fake LV, Sudan I, transgenic vegetables, endowment insurance...To earn a living, they try different jobs - perform in the streets, participate in talent shows, become security guards. After being adopted by a rich family then are then abandoned and return to living on the streets. However these two friends never loose hope..

Analysis:

The drama emerged Italian commedia dell'arte, French comedy and Chinese traditional comedy together. It has creatively emerged improvisational performance together with well-knit realism acting. However, there're also controversials, like saying the actors were asking for applause, spending silly efforts, being garrulous.

Director Jinghui Meng , now working for the China National Drama Theater, is the most influential experimental drama director in Asia. Some of his best plays are Rhinoceros In Love, Amber, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Personally, I really like this director Jinghui,Meng, and I do admire experimental dramas. However, in this show, it is said that the original idea came from the two main actors random chatting, it wasn't the directors contribution.