A classic Shakespearean play with a Tibetan twist

Updated: May 13, 2021 By ZHANG KUN in Shanghai chinadaily.com.cn Print

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A new production of *Hamlet*, which features 22 students from a Tibetan class at the Shanghai Theater Academy, takes to the stage of Shangxi Theater in Shanghai. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.com.cn]

The Tibetan class is a contractual program that started in 2017 when the Tibetan Drama Company sent 22 students from across the Tibet autonomous region on a four-year college program at the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Half of the students are from the pastoral areas in Tibet while the other half hails from Lhasa, said Yang Jia, the head teacher for the class at STA.

"They were so shy at the beginning, always trying to hide their faces," she recalled. Through the past four years, they learned through reading, experiencing and rehearsing classical plays such as Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and now Hamlet.

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