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Staging stories of a literary luminary By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-28 07:45 Share CLOSE
My Ideal Life, which will premiere at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on Dec 29 and 30, will conclude the fourth edition of the Lao She Theater Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The fourth Lao She Theater Festival invokes new approaches to examining the life and work of one of China s most illustrious men of letters, Chen Nan reports.
When director and scriptwriter Jiang Tonglin was commissioned to create a new play adapted from Chinese writer Lao She s (1899-1966) works for the Lao She Theater Festival, he decided to combine six of the luminary s works into one play.