Venue: Theater

Dates: September 12-13, 2017

Duration: Approximate 190 mins (No intermissions)

About

LIN Daiyu lost her mother while still a child and then was relocated her grandmother’s house, where she and her elder male cousin JIA Baoyu become innocent playmates and find each other congenial. When Baoyu is beaten up by his father for making friend with an actor in the palace. Daiyu goes to visit him and gets a cold shoulder from a careless maid. However, she then sees Baoyu seeing his another cousin Baochai off, and cannot help feeling sad at heart. As fallen petals flutter in the air in the late spring, Daiyu buries flowers with a hoe. Baoyu sees this and lays his heart bare to her; later, Daiyu’s maid Zijuan, to sound out Baoyu, tells a lie about Daiyu’s intention to return to her hometown Suzhou, making Baoyu fall ill. Baoyu’s grandmother awakes to the mutual affinity between Baoyu and Daiyu, yet she wants Baoyu to marry Baochai, so she, at the instigation of WANG Xifeng, pretends to hold a wedding for Baoyu and Daiyu by “stealthily substituting Daiyu for Baochai”. However, the truth is brought to light and Daiyu dies with hatred. Baoyu rushes out of the bridal chamber to Daiyu’s grave to wail for her and then runs away in anger.

Lead Cast

ZHANG Xiaojun, LI Min

Cast

JIA Baoyu: ZHANG Xiaojun

LIN Daiyu: LI Min (Specially Invited)

WANG Xifeng: XIE Qunying

Grandmother JIA: WU Lingzhu

JIA Zheng (Baoyu’s father): SHI Huilan

XUE Baochai (Baoyu’s cousin): XU Liufei

Zijuan: ZHU Huanhuan

JIA Zheng's Wife: SONG Beibei

Xiren: WEN Shanshan

Qingwen: CHEN Qunyao

Qiguan: YAN Qiaona