Playwright: Lai Sheng-Chuan
Director: Kin Yan Szeto
Dates: April 16-19 at 8pm
Matinee: April 20 at 2pm
Venue: ASU's Valborg Theatre
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Synopsis: Two theatre groups are mistakenly booked into the same theatre for a dress rehearsal. One is to perform a melancholy contemporary play “Secret Love.” The other is rehearsing a farcical period costume “Peach Blossom Spring.” As the two groups struggle for control of the stage, the two plays unfold in fragments. Slowly the tragic and comic, the contemporary and the classical, begin to interact, and seemingly opposite themes and performance styles blend to form new meanings, and the universal yearning for a “Peach Blossom Land.”
The ASU production is the second-ever English language adaptation of playwright/director Stan Lai’s enormous Chinese stage hit. The English world premiere was produced by Lai at Stanford in 2007. Embroidering on the magic, serendipity and tragicomedy of life, the themes of love and loss in Pining…in Peach Blossom Land echo the history of 20th-century Mainland China and Taiwan.
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