Getting their act together

Artistic duo team up to fulfill their dream, Chen Nan reports.

Several years ago, when Chinese actor Deng Chao and scriptwriter Yu Baimei met in the lobby of a hotel in Beijing and decided to use their own money to open a theater in the capital, they were prepared for it to fail.

"It was a dream for us and we just wanted to try," says Deng, adding that this had been his goal since he was in his third year of studies at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing.