NCPA to stage Chinese adaptation of Greek play

The Birds, a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, which has been adapted into a Chinese play of the same name, will make its debut at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on April 26. Running through May 2, the play is the NCPA's first in-house production of an ancient Greek comedy and will be directed by dramatist Luo Jinlin.

Luo, 80, who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1961, has been researching ancient Greek plays and adapting them into Chinese since the 1980s.

His father, the late Luo Niansheng, who studied in the United States and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, started translating ancient Greek literature in 1933.