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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

story about a lost fisherman who stumbles into a utopian land filled with blossoming<br />

peach trees where all people live in harmony because they have no historical<br />

memory. In this version, however, the fisherman (played by Tian Yue) is a hapless,<br />

cuckolded husband, and the first person he meets in the mythical Peach Blossom<br />

Land looks exactly like his wife (played by Yang Lele) and her lover (performed by<br />

He Jiong). In the end, he leaves this land in the hope <strong>of</strong> persuading his estranged<br />

wife to return with him. The play shows the triangular relationship in modern people‘s<br />

life under the ancient environment which reflects people‘s living conditions in the<br />

modern society and their contradictions and helplessness as well. The actors and<br />

actress‘ exciting acting won audience‘s laughter.<br />

There is warmth in the sadness <strong>of</strong> "Secret Love"; but sorrow in the laughter <strong>of</strong><br />

"Peach Blossom Land." Through the contradictions between directors and casts <strong>of</strong><br />

these two plays, two completely different lives have been pinned together by the<br />

whole play. The two stories become one through the same stage to let people think<br />

and feel. There is comedy‘s absurdity emerging in the tragedy as well as tragedy‘s<br />

sentiment in the comedy which has become an obvious label in Stan Lai‘s works.<br />

Both the comedy and the tragedy have pointed to the sadness <strong>of</strong> life in the end and<br />

ended successfully in the beautiful peach blossom land.<br />

This is the second performance at <strong>PKU</strong> since the charity performance for calamitous<br />

earthquake in Wenchuan, which was supported by Institute for Cultural Industries <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong>. For the play‘s success in the last year, the tickets become hot again at <strong>PKU</strong>.<br />

Edited By : Seren<br />

Translated By : Su Juan<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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