Yep, Bosco is acting (out?) again. Strange things so often come to be in the Middle Kingdom. I left a successful acting career--my first paying occupation after receiving my undergraduate degree in Theatre--some 30 years ago so that I might concentrate solely on my writing. While my literary career kept me close to, and quite often engaged in, "Show Business" over those three decades, it was almost exclusively off-camera--other than my television commentary career in the criminal justice field in America. That has changed dramatically; forgive the pun, if you please. As has happened before during my years in China, my life has come full cycle yet again.
As regular readers of these pages might remember, early last summer I played a significant, but limited role, in the Chinese feature film, entitled in English, "The International Military Tribunal for the Far East," a World War Two film to be released in China this month. Well, I've had to turn it up a notch from that.
I am honored, and thrilled, to report that I was recently cast as a lead character in a new 20-episode dramatic TV series entitled "China's Peacekeeping Police." While it is a fictionalized action-thriller for mass market consumption on CCTV, it is important to the Central Government because it introduces to the Chinese people an important new and much debated element in Chinese foreign policy, an adjustment to its longtime doctrine of non-intervention: namely, China's participation in United Nations Peacekeeping duties worldwide. In fact, we have been filming at China's United Nations Peacekeeping Headquarters in LangFang, about 40 KM east of Beijing.
Go figure, I am playing a General. A butt-chewing stickler for obedience and discipline named Grieg Gurr who is the Head of Mission of a United Nations Peacekeeping force in a Southeast Asian country, when a unit of Chinese UN Peacekeeping troops deploy for the very first time. The action-packed story stars one of the best Chinese actors in both America and China, WangLuoyong, who logged 2500 performances as the male lead in the Broadway hit musical, "Miss Saigon."
As the saying goes, stay tuned for dates and times in your locale.
