On March 25, the 2024 exclusive version of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" launched its national tour. "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" is the most popular work of Lai Shengchuan and his "Acting Workshop". Chang Xin has been a regular actor in the past 40 years. There are more than ten films directed by Lai Shengchuan, including classic version, star version, exclusive version, commemorative version, etc. version, and the folk amateur drama club has rehearsed more than 10,000 performances. Among them, the exclusive version, which was born in 2017, is rooted in Shanghai. After hundreds of performances, it has become a "drama business card" of Shanghai. This exclusive version will start a national tour. It will start from Shanghai and bring this classic The play travels to all parts of the motherland.
In 2018, different versions of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" gathered at the Shanghai Theater for the first time. Nearly 20,000 audiences walked into the Shanghai Theater during the "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" season to enjoy this classic stage play that has been performed for more than 30 years. . Since then, the Peach Blossom Season in March every year has also become the performance season of "Secret Love in the Peach Blossom Spring" at the theater.
In this year's performance season, the audience has the opportunity to see multiple versions of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land", including the classic version of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" that premiered in 2006, which is produced by well-known actors Huang Lei, Sun Li, He Jiong, Chen Minghao and others starred; the commemorative edition of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" stars Xiao Ai, Fan Guangyao, Qu Zhongheng, Tang Congsheng, Fan Ruijun, Zhang Benyu and other Taiwanese theater elites. This year, the theater invited "Performance Workshops" who have been deeply involved in theater for decades The talented actors perform, allowing the audience to feel the original charm of the play when it was born; the exclusive version is starred by actors from Shanghai Opera Troupe trained by Lai Shengchuan. Since 2017, Shanghai has its own "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land". Last year, "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" The exclusive version opens the theater residency mode. From now on, there will always be a "drama paradise" in the bustling city center. Audiences from all over the country are welcome to attend the show anytime and anywhere, and it also allows people to "drag their suitcases and come to Shanghai to watch "Secret Love in the Peach Blossom Land"" It has become a new fashion.
After seven years of experience, the exclusive version of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" is about to embark on a new journey. It will start from Shanghai and take this classic drama to Chengdu, Beijing, Quanzhou, Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Pingtan, Jingdezhen, Ma'anshan and other cities are also the longest itinerary in the history of the exclusive tour. As the first stop of the tour, all four performances of the show in Chengdu have been sold out. Luan Lan, co-director of the exclusive version of
"Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" said: "It has been more than 20 years since I came across "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" in college. I feel that no matter how the times change, its content and themes are relevant to the whole world and all mankind. There is the pursuit of love, the longing for beauty...these are the most touching. On the other hand, "Secret Love in the Peach Blossom Spring" can be enjoyed by both refined and popular people. People of different ages can come into the theater to enjoy this play, so it is so popular these days. After forty years, it can be performed constantly."
Many people told Lai Shengchuan after watching the play that "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" was their "first encounter" with theater, and this arrangement was very happy. "From the creation of this play in 1986 to today, it seems like yesterday to me. I was only 31 years old at that time, and I played such a play. Really, it requires a serious creative attitude and a playful attitude. Spirit. After so many years of acting, wherever we perform, we not only make the audience happy, but also enlighten the audience about drama. It turns out that drama can be played like this." Lai Shengchuan said, "I hope to bring this drama as a gift from Shanghai to the whole country. Audience." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xiang)
