This 1922 Globe and Mail article captures a non-Chinese reporter’s impressions of a Cantonese opera performance in Toronto, Ontario. The reporter attempts to describe with accuracy the costumes and musical accompaniment, making special note of the false shoes worn by actresses to imitate the appearance of bound feet and the ‘wailing wind instruments and a sort of tom tom.’ He likens the minimal staging to the Elizabethan theatre, reporting that ‘there is, assuredly, nothing amateur or primitive’ about the production.
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