Wu Hsing-kuo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Wu Hsing-kuo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Wu Hsing-kuo (Chinese: å ³èˆˆåœ‹) is a Taiwanese actor of the silver

screen and theater, known for both his performance of complex movie

roles as much as for his innovative adaptations of Western classics

into traditional Peking Opera.Wu was trained in classical Peking Opera

since the age of 11 in Taiwan's state-run Fu-Hsing Chinese Opera

School, specializing in wu sheng (male martial) roles. He was admitted

with honors into the Theatre Department of Chinese Culture University

in Taipei, trained under master Chou Cheng-jung (Zhou Zheng-rong) and

became the leading dancer of Lin Hwai-min's Cloud Gate Dance Theater.

However, his teacher Chou Cheng-jung (Zhou Zheng-rong) considered him

as a pretentious student who didn't focus on study and finally

abandoned him in 1989. Since then, Chou Cheng-jung (died in 2000)

never met him anymore. In addition, most of the traditional Chinese

opera audiences do not recognize him as a qualified actor.In 1986, he

and a group of enthusiastic friends founded the Contemporary Legend

Theatre [zh] in Taipei, seeking to revitalize traditional Chinese

theatre by adapting Western classical plays to the style and

techniques of Peking Opera. He was the leading actor and director of

four Shakespeare adaptations, including the critically acclaimed

Kingdom of Desire (慾望城國), an adaptation of Macbeth, and King

Lear (æ Žçˆ¾åœ¨æ­¤), in which Wu plays all the parts.In 1992, Wu was

awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in New York with Richard

Schechner. That year, he also won the Hong Kong Film Award for best

new actor.
Wu Hsing-kuo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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