Rhinoceros in Love
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Written by | Liao Yimei |
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Date premiered | June 7, 1999 |
Place premiered | China National Youth Theatre, Beijing |
Original language | Chinese (Mandarin) |
Rhinoceros in Love is a Chinese play by Liao Yimei, originally directed by her husband Meng Jinghui in 1999, and subsequently performed more than 2,000 times and seen by more than a million people. The play was translated to English by Mark Talacko in 2012. A new English translation by Claire Conceison was commissioned by the BBC in 2014 for a radio play broadcast.
The play describes the love of a rhinoceros feeder for a beautiful woman. It has been described as a 'classic drama' of modern Chinese theatre.[1][2][3][4]
It is a production of the National Theatre Company of China.
In August 2012, it became the first play in the People's Republic of China (1949- ) to reach 1,000 performances.[5]
References
- ↑ http://paper.sznews.com/szdaily/20090222/ca2909897.htm
- ↑ http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/06/10/[email protected]
- ↑ http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/17/content_38639.htm
- ↑ http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_35/node_112/node_263/2009/03/18/123735884760439.shtml
- ↑ http://en.people.cn/90782/7909353.html
External links
- Rhinoceros in Love translated by Mark Talacko
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lpqnn BBC radio broadcast of "Rhinoceros in Love" in English