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Video: Greek director takes center stage

The bilingual play Agamemnon, directed by Stathis Livathinos, artistic director of the National Theater of Greece, will be presented to audiences in Beijing next month. The work, an extraordinary experiment from the national theaters of China and Greece, represents the merging of two great theatrical traditions. Our website interviews Livathinos to get his views on how to make traditional cultural heritage come alive and have relevance in today's world and how opera master Mei Lanfang has influenced theater in Europe.

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