Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

April 15 – October 31, 2015

Two plays—one a bawdy retelling of a classic Chinese fable, the other a poignant story of a couple separated in the wake of China’s 1949 revolution—collide onstage when two acting troupes accidentally book the same theatre for rehearsals. Amid the chaos, squabbles and comical jabs at theatre life, the two plays begin to mysteriously intertwine, their epic themes calling to each other across the centuries in a blend of modern realism and Peking opera. Internationally acclaimed Taiwanese playwright Stan Lai directs his 1986 meditation on love, loss and memory, regarded as a masterwork of modern theatre in China. Theatrical haze is used in this production.

Suitability Suggestions

Since its premiere in 1986, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land has become regarded as a masterwork of modern theatre in China and Taiwan. The play is at times raucous, at times heartbreaking and romantic. It contains occasional profanity, a love triangle, farcical sexual situations and bawdy talk about size and fertility. Well-prepared teenagers who can handle these elements will enjoy this funny, profound work and gain historical insight into the plight of thousands of Chinese forced to flee to Taiwan in 1949.

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