Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 1: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land and Other Plays

by Stan Lai, Lissa Tyler Renaud (Editor)

Overview

These volumes feature works from across Lai’s career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances.
 
Volume One contains:
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
Look Who's Crosstalking Tonight
The Island and the Other Shore
I Me She Him
Ménage à 13

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472075072
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	02/24/2022
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Stan Lai (Lai Shengchuan) is one of the most celebrated theatre practitioners working in the Chinese-speaking world. His work over three decades has pioneered the course of modern Chinese language theatre in Taiwan, China, and other Chinese speaking regions. "The preeminent Chinese playwright and stage director of this generation." (China Daily) "The best Chinese language playwright and director in the world." (BBC) Lai's works include masterpieces of the modern Chinese language theatre such as Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, The Village, and his epic 8-hour A Dream Like A Dream, all of which are in this collection.

Lissa Tyler Renaud (M.A. Directing, Ph.D. Theatre History/Criticism, U.C. Berkeley, 1987) is known internationally as a master teacher, actor-scholar, invited speaker, writer, critic, and 2nd generation editor.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume 3 by Raymond Zhou

Notes on Staging

A Dream Like a Dream

Ago

On the Contributors



 

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Robert Brustein

"The major contemporary Asian playwright of his time, perhaps of all time."
—Robert Brustein, from the Foreword