thirty pm. ok so we should be done around eleven pm oh midnight. that means we ll probably only get to bed around one am it s going to be a long tiring night. how long are we staying here four or five days i think last time we stayed five days so it will probably be the same thing. the last place where we performed was much better. than. the village has been expecting the troupe the opera is by no means just fun it s seen as an offering to the gods of barter in exchange for amusing them the people hope their wishes for a prosperous harvest good health or the birth of
a family all ages and each with their own story and reasons for choosing this i ten or at lifestyle at times bringing husbands wives and children with them around the world. like i m twenty years old and i m from a small village in shanghai. i had to leave my parents when i was twelve and i joined the company after studying at an opera school. in the beginning i was so young that i really missed my parents. i remember crying a lot back then. i ve been here for four years now and how can i put it things have changed. i don t know if i like this life but i ve gotten used to it.
it. was. her that. night after night paying lead plays the queen and wears the costumes of noble women and emphasis she s the one that all the young singers in the troupe admire and the audience is most desolate by. being lee has lived. on stage and on the road since she was a child to the performers jewish is more of an art than a career and over time it becomes a way of life and a destiny. so that. i must have been seven or eight years old when the opera first came to my village. i remember thinking the make up and the hairstyles were magnificent and. i sneaked
but. far from the city lights of shanghai and beijing pigeon jew travelling opera troupe journey tirelessly through the remote countryside of northern china going from village to village day after day wherever audiences still await their arrival. here they get on to much of what they have all the uprise we were
this long and tedious task are rewarded with a small bonus. the others drop off their bags where they ll be staying with some villagers who agreed to put them up in exchange for some money. the father making man stuff tomatoes he smells really good the tomatoes are from the garden grown without pesticides it s better that way they look wonderful. oh. yeah. i m so hungry we ve been on the road and we haven t eaten since this morning i see you eat badly you re too skinny. upper is too tough for these youngsters. and you really travel all year round from village to village. yes around that must be difficult.