Time: Two shows at 20:00 on 07/15 and 07/16/2009
Venue: Huang Hua Gang Theatre
Tickets: ￥380, 280, 180, 120, 80
Tel: 020-8776 8099, 8776 8660, 8776 8558, 8822 8459, 88390338
Produced by NTCC (National Theater Company of China)
Presenter: Color of Art Co., Ltd
A Chinese Mainland version of the Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, the bittersweet drama which was acclaimed by the international media including the New York Times as the "the pinnacle of contemporary Chinese stage drama," is returning to Guangzhou for the forth time.
Despite two-decades since performances with the Hong Kong and Taiwan versions, the play has received huge audience fellowship due to its unique plot design, interweaving tragedy and comedy on one stage.
A Chinese mainland version directed by the Taiwanese playwright Stan Lai was debuted on November 18, 2006 in Beijing and arrived in Guangzhou on June 2007. Over 120 performances with 10 thousand audiences in the country is a reasonable celebration of its two-years of touring.
Plot: Two different theater troupes find themselves trapped in the same rehearsal space, and the two seemingly different plays overlap thematically.
Huang Lei and Sun Li
The more serious of the two plays, Secret Love is about a man named Jiang Binliu (played by Huang Lei) who was cruelly separated from his lover in 1949, when the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan. Four decades later, Jiang is an old man lying on his deathbed in a Taipei hospital room as his unloved Taiwanese wife looks on. He is still brooding about the past, desperate to see his lover before he dies. It turns out that his lover Yun Zhifan (played by Sun Li) also came to Taipei decades ago.
Director Stan Lai (赖声川) is a highly influential award winning US born Taiwan based playwright and theater director. He is the director of Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (loosely based on Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring), often touted as the most successful contemporary Chinese play. Lai is recognized as one of the most important theater directors in Asia.
An actor, director, producer, screenwriter and singer, Huang Lei graduated from Beijing Film Academy and is also a professor there. In Secret Love part, his wife Sun Li, plays the actress.
(By Jessie Hwang)
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