In the creative realm

Prolific director Yi Liming is on a mission to bring the underrepresented in world theater as well as top original Chinese works, writes Raymond Zhou.

"There are two types of theater in China: One is within the establishment and the other outside it," says Yi Liming, who has just presented the opera version of On the Land of White Deer - a new adaptation from contemporary Chinese literature - at Beijing's Tianqiao Art Center. He is now rehearsing an unusual edition of Danton's Death.

He will also direct the China premiere of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande in Shanghai later in the summer.