"But Japanese theatre has an advantage over Chinese in internationalizing itself. When it comes to Western tragedies, Japanese theatre prefers subdued color-schemes and the actors 'voices are closer to natural speech, so it's easier to convey a tragic feel; Peking opera's preference for falsetto strikes a false note in Western tragedy," comments Wu.
「不過，日本劇團國際化要比起中國佔先天優勢，從改編西方悲劇的角度看，他們舞台的整體顏色趨於沉暗，演員的唱腔發聲也接近自然的人聲，比較容易傳達悲劇的感覺，不像國劇常用假嗓，演起西方悲劇來總覺得怪怪的」，吳靜吉分析說。