/Introduction
SEEKING DUKE OF SAXE-MEININGEN:
The Thoughts and Explorations of Malaysian Chinese Theatre Directors is one of the series of Muka Literature. There is no shortage of excellent directors in Malaysian theaters. The directors are committed to sharing art through the stage and enriching the literary and artistic life of the people. Malaysian Chinese theater has a history of a hundred years, and the directors have contributed a lot, but there are no professional books to sort out the information of the directors. The author, Dr. Yan Yongqi, is a theater director who travels in China and Malaysia. By interviewing excellent Chinese theater directors in Malaysia, readers have the opportunity to enter the world of theater directors and understand how directors think and explore in the field of theater. Some of these directors transmit drama education through the stage, some focus on cross-cultural communication, some focus on improving the literary life of the community, some bring drama into the campus, and some use social phenomena through artistic packaging to awaken the audience’s awareness of certain issues, etc. Wait. Each director’s aesthetic proposition and practical experience are unique. When they are gathered in a book, their thinking and innovation, inheritance and prospect, collage the picture of contemporary drama in Malaysian Chinese theater, and outline the contemporary drama in Malaysia general appearance. This book is the first book to collate and gather Malaysian contemporary Chinese theater directors, and the materials are especially precious.