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Wayang Set for Repeat Performance in 2011
Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2006
Topic: The Arts | 
by Chicken Little
The hit Chinese Opera, "The Dragon Stomps again" is scheduled to return to town in 2011 after a stellar performance in this year's theatrical season.
The plot is the main reason for the show's success as the actors are less than compelling, with a few veteran exceptions including the chief protagonist, the wily 83 year old statesman who played the emperor and the younger Teochew man who played the rebel in disguise.
The plot begins with a young idealistic man seizing the throne of heaven from an invading army from the west. He speaks of visions of transformation of the kingdom and leads his people through years of peace and prosperity.
Later, he becomes increasingly crusty and begins to eliminate his trusted generals one by one. The general from the kingdom of Wu (Goh) and the general from Toh are exiled while the old Raja is put aside. Soon, the emperor is surrounded by obedient technocrats who can write nice flowery scrolls but have no experience in battle.
His chief courtier from the Wu kingdom keeps the seat at his right hand warm for his beloved son while his court is filled with 82 eunuchs and two token noblemen.
The Emperor barely tolerates these two nobles while enjoying the adulation of the 82 yes men. His courtier occasionally promises to stop whipping the eunuchs into submission but that has never happened in living memory. Meanwhile the two nobles are allowed occasional appearances of independence as long as they do not stray into beyond the emperor's dictates.
The emperor's thorn in the flesh is the ultra rebel Qi who has been badly stripped and beaten for daring to question the Emperor for his wisdom after one of his ships had sunk in the kidney-shaped lake.
He had dared to suggest that perhaps the rest of the Emperor's engineers were all just as rotten as the ones who built the boat with the golden taps that sank so igominously.
He also hinted that perhaps the kingdom that was appeared so glittering to outsiders was bought on the toil of the peasants with money that had been saved for their retirement and was no more. For his courage, he was left to perish in the Gobi desert after being dragged out there by a team of wild horses under the dreaded turbaned senior executioner.
The Emperor had hoped that the fate of the wild-eyed Dr Qi would have scared off anyone who dared to challenge his power. As the saying goes, "kill a chicken to frighten the monkeys".
Earlier, the emperor had demonstrated his ability to crack heads even more graphically by exiling the leader of his sedan chair carriers. They had specially outfitted a sedan chair with the latest technology to carry the Empress Dowager when she had become ill while on a trip. The Emperor had rewarded the bearers by reducing their wages and when they protested by humiliating their leader and sending him into exile.
One day, the noble from the Liu kingdom, stung by being called a monkey, decides to shed his "eunuch role" and take on the task of rescuing the beautiful maiden Xin from the clutches of the emperor. Based in his small kingdom at the back of the harbour and aided by his clansmen from Swatow, general Liu steals away from the court to recruit a team of young turks to perform the deed. He puts together a suicide squad with the woman warrior Han and her soul sister Li who together can flatten any man with their martial arts. Captain Yaw is his trusty sidekick who can inspire the peasants to come together to demand justice.
The wily Emperor is not fazed by the challenge, "the maiden Xin is my creation - no one touches her," he cried. "No one knows her as well as I do, I will fix anyone who tries". He goes around the villages offering peasants to repair the low quality acceses to their huts that he had built in the previous years in exchange for their loyalty against the rebels. He also offers abalone porridge and sharksfin soup to anyone willing to offer their precious little pieces of paper to him in a rebuff of the rebels.
Marshal Liu, Captain Yaw and the women warriors from Lin, Han and Li rouse the peasants with their stirring rhetoric and visions of a bright future. Thousands gather to hear them speak of a vision of a compassionate society where ideas and ideals are encouraged and not squashed.
Alas, it is to no avail and the Emperor's forces which control the roads, the waterways, the food warehouses and even the distribution of the pieces of paper are too strong for Liu and company.
In a titanic battle with much vocal aerobatics, the powers of the Emperor and his eunuchs are simply too powerful. The rebels are soundly defeated and Marshal Liu slinks away to resume his eunuch disguise as he returns to the court of the emperor. No one knows what the next five years will hold for the people. They have been promised that when they grow old they will be sent to offshore islands to die and that they will no longer have access to the medicine halls unless they have sold their pigs, chickens and firstborn children and can clear the meanest of tests but as the other noble in the court, the venerable Tong has said, "The people have spoken and Heaven has a mandate. The Wayang must go on".
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