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Title: ‘Somewhat Like Exotic Dream Is Chinese Drama As Played By Orientals On Bare Stage,’ The Globe and Mail, July 8, 1922 (1)
Date: Unknown
Donor: The Globe and Mail
Subject: Arts, Cross-cultural Relations
Province: Ontario
Set: 1 of 2
Language: ENG

The Globe and Mail

This article is available through the web portal 'Canada's Heritage from 1844—The Globe and Mail' (Proquest), the most extensive newspaper archive in Canada.

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.