Well, I think they need to soak it up. I don't know that they have to consciously change it. There’re certain things that you try to avoid. For instance there's a young man in the play who plays the duke and very frequently I think he moves to much like a modern, then...you know...you’re a royalty, you're a duke, you have to hold yourself certain way, to carry yourself a certain way. But primarily you try to pick actors for their parts, and they say that characters are 90% the atctors you chose to the play, so we have very very good actors, and they fit their parts. I don't think that much i have to ban them into something they're not.

I would hope in 10 years that Shanghai Shakespeare is known as one of the greatest Shakespeare companies in the world, that's what i know, starting now with.. That's what i'll hope. because i'm not young and i'll be staying here, I don't have so many more years in my life. I'm devoted to this, if in 10 years i can say we have a recognized strong company that people could come see Shakespeare which is with English subtitles, i'll be very happy.

I don't know about Chinese audiences because i've only staged these plays in English, and the tickets are not cheap. I know Chinese have more money to spend than they used to. But it's a higher-class person, and i wish there's a way to make it more accessible to lower income people. I don't know what we're going to charge for the Chinese 12th night, but i hope it's less than what we charge for the English. I wanna pay the actors, something for their travel and their effort. i can't compare Chinese audiences...I see the audiences out there I see mostly successfully Laowai（老外）, that's not exactly the audiences i want to see.

No, not really. Somebody pointed out last night that the fool in the play is dressed a Chinese robe. But i did this play 7 years ago in America and i set my fool in a Chinese robe, so it has nothing to so much being in china as someone always said a Chinese connection. Wherever you go in the world, you come into Chinese people. In this movie I'm telling you about, that is the touchdown by us. This is 1939, it's paris, and there's a scene in a woman's apartment, she has two great big Buddha, Chinese Buddhas. So you know wherever you go, China is there. And you can put it in any kind of period.

I did a King Lear 李爾王 in 1989 in June. I didn't want to dress in old English style, so i told the costume person dress a Chinese. So it was a Chinese King Lear, and of course that was June, 1989. People saw my Chinese King Lear and: how did you know? I do know, i just wanted a Chinese King Lear. No matter of strange, and i would use the word lucky timing, but it's an interesting coincidence.