LONDON—Ben Brown, a property developer, enjoyed the Chinese Spectacular at the Royal Festival Hall in London two nights in a row.
He said he initially had no idea of what to expect, but after the show on Saturday night he said it was "great, fascinating."
"It brings a whole new light on Chinese culture for me."
Mr. Brown's girlfriend is Chinese Malaysian, so he said that gives him a little background to his "otherwise lack of knowledge" about Chinese culture.
"Knowing very little about Chinese culture it's quite inspiring," he said.
Mr. Brown particularly liked the intensity of the drumming, saying that the combination of dancing and drumming must be a "serious challenge" to the performers.
"The skipping sideways left to right whilst keeping place and ending up in the right place – it's got to take a lot of practice."
He felt that the show was a representation of authentic Chinese culture.
"5,000 years of working up to where they are - now must be a renaissance time."
Ben felt that things are opening up in China now.
"It's probably about time we learnt more about what they are doing there."
Ben felt that the visual backdrop was a very clever.
"I liked the way in the first dance how you saw the people coming down the screen and how then they appeared at the back of the stage as if they've sort just flown in. I thought that was a nice effect."
He said the changeable nature backdrop was a great way of changing the scene without having to have a curtain coming up and down, or a scene change.
"A good way of taking you from earth up to heaven and back again, as they did with the skit with the two punks"
Ben is a property developer at GIMG Ltd. He saw the show on the opening night, on Friday, with his work colleague, and then the following night with relatives.
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