Stage Dedication and Open Day Performances – Excerpts from Forty Years of Cherished Love
Xiqu
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Four excerpts from Forty Years of Cherished Love: “Flute Playing with Sorrow”, “Poem on the Garden Wall”, “Tears in the Dark” and “Revisiting Shen Garden”
Playwright: Chan Koon-hing
Based on the life of the patriotic poet Lu You, this play recounts the story of Lu’s separation from his first wife and young love, Tang Wan.
When Tang fails to produce a male heir and Lu’s political aspirations flounder, Lu’s mother forces the couple to separate, insisting that Tang brings her son bad luck. A few years later, after Tang and Lu have both remarried, the couple meet accidentally in the Shen Garden. Overcome at the sight of his lost love, Lu writes a poem on the garden wall. But when Tang sees it, she is consumed with grief and falls fatally ill.
Forty years later, Lu revisits the Shen Garden with a heavy heart.
Playwright：Chan Koon-hing
Artistic Director：Wan Fai-yin
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Free
Indoor
Local
