but its personality is its more modern brethren -- overwhelmingly large, with citizens holding fast to the city's Hong Kong and Shanghai -- as mantra, "Keep Austin Weird." a tourist destination. The city Although home to vast green boasts world-class attractions, spaces, funky boutiques and cozy like the Forbidden City and coffee shops, Austin really comes Tiananmen Square, that to life at night; the self-proclaimed showcase country's past and "Live Music Capital of the present. Plus, the jaw-dropping World" boasts numerous live Great Wall of China stands just music venues and one of the north of the city, making largest music festivals in the U.S. Beijing a world-traveler must. Sydney and Rio de Janeiro Why Go: Sydney has more than just Why Go: With its sun-
Eve, Oedipus, or King Lear. T h i s ageless conflict provides much of the power of playwriting. T h e play On Golden Pond deals with a daughter's frantic effort to please her father, and its Ordeals are the daughter standing up to the father, and the father experiencing his own mortality. T h i s generational drama is sometimes played out on a world stage. T h e Chinese dissident students who took over Tiananmen Square and blocked the tanks with their bodies were challenging the status quo imposed by their parents and grandparents. Fairy-tale struggles with wolves and witches may be ways of expressing conflicts with parents. T h e witches are the dark aspect of the mother; the wolves, ogres, or giants the dark aspect of the father. Dragons and other monsters can be the Shadow side of a parent or a generation that has held on too long. Campbell spoke
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