What is the theme of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land"?

"Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" is an exploratory work with complex structure and novel form. The whole play centers on the pursuit of love, with intricate twists and turns, drama within the drama, and full of interest.

The play "Secret Love in the Peach Blossom Spring" was first performed in Taiwan, China in 1986; in 1991, the play toured the United States and Hong Kong, China; the following year, it was adapted into a film directed by Lai Shengchuan himself, and the film won the fifth award in 1992 The Tokyo International Film Festival Young Director Silver Award, the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, the Best Drama Film and the Best Sound Recording were nominated, and ranked third among the top ten Chinese films in 1992 selected by the Taiwan Film Critics Association. name.

Plot summary

Describes a series of disputes between the crew of "Secret Love" and the crew of "Peach Blossom Spring" as they compete for the theater. "Secret Love" tells the story of a young couple, Jiang Binliu and Yun Zhifan, who lost contact due to the Kuomintang War. However, they still missed each other bitterly. Later, they were forced by their parents to marry someone else and start a family. The two met in Taipei Hospital 30 years later. At this time, Jiang Binliu was seriously ill, and the two of them wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Peach Blossom Spring" describes the "triangular" relationship between fisherman Lao Tao, his wife Chunhua and Boss Yuan. Later, Lao Tao discovered the Peach Blossom Spring and wanted to take his wife with him when he returned home, but Chunhua and Boss Yuan mistakenly regarded him as a ghost. , Lao Tao had to run away alone. The theater sometimes performed "Secret Love" and sometimes "Peach Blossom Spring". Later, each occupied half of the stage and performed at the same time. As a result, there were ridiculous scenes such as overlapping sets, collision of props, actors' lines being wrong, and even swearing outside the plot.