"She's abandoned the most basic elements of a Peking Opera performer's comfort zone," exclaims Li Siaopin, who says that everything Wei did before, no matter how experimental, was still within the pale of Peking Opera, but this time Robert Wilson has taken everything she's familiar with-stage movements, acting techniques, vocal techniques, and cast-and done away with all of it.
「她把京劇演員最基本的安全防線都拆掉了！」李小平表示，魏海敏過去演出的每一齣創新劇，現代劇場也罷，傳統新編戲也行，再怎麼樣，都還在京劇的框架內，但這次，羅伯・威爾森卻幾乎把她熟悉的元素──身段、做工、唱腔以及演出團隊，都──拆解了。