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The next play is called The
Umbrella of Stage Directions.

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Often in the Beijing
opera and Chinese drama,

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there's one character
who's a trickster.

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And that Jai Fu
was the trickster.

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The Umbrella of
Stage Directions,

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the throne room in
Beijing, Jai Fu.

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In Hainan, we have something
called the umbrella

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of stage directions.

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King: what is it?

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Jai Fu: you open this umbrella
and all stage directions

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come out.

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King, what this means?

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I do can in no way understand
it by the broad high streets

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of Beijing.

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Jai Fu: right this second,
king, umbrella is being opened

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outside, and soon we will see.

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Big banging sound of umbrella
snapping open with wind.

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Next, entering and exiting
with astonishing rapidity,

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all kinds of characters, they
fall down, laugh, weep, get up,

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fly about.

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Open drawers, tear up pieces
of paper, wring their hands,

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stop, leap, go down on
one knee, et cetera.

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The acting of stage directions.

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King: ah, so beautiful.

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And how do stage directions end?

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Jai Fu: like this.

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Jai Fu signals to
certain stage direction

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men who seize, bind and gag
the king and carry him off.

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In a moment, the king comes
back unbound and free.

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King, oof, very good, clever.

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Now you tell me,
these stage directions

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from many different plays?

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Jai Fu nods.

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Let plays be brought in.

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I wish to see them,
minority nationalities,

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underground army,
blad gark, other ones.

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Keep here stage directions
and bring plays.

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Stage directions: but we are
part of the plays, majesty.

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King: no matter.

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Keep stage directions here.

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Jai Fu: so it shall be.

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Jai Fu herds all the stage
directions to one side

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and encloses them in some kind
of fencing, from which they

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try in vain to escape.

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They eventually do escape.

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