This is a multimedia musical play imbued with director MENG Jinghui’s black humour and “post-modernist” sarcasm. True love is like ageless amber formed aeons ago. In a modern metropolis teeming with sheer haste and insolent hypocrisy, could love be clear and crystal yet?

 

 

Synopsis
When they meet for the first time, GAO Yuan believes he lures Xiaoyou into love, but it turns out the opposite. This young “philosopher”, however, does not believe such fact. Indeed, he gets attracted by this uncommon girl, an interpreter at a museum of nature who often introduces the history of dinosaurs to the public. Under her calm look is hidden fiery passion and a little untold secret.

 

 

Over the course of time, they become attached to each other. The love story unfolds against the urban life of hustle and bustle. He is an insolent guy who believes nothing while she is a willful girl who desires to find a miracle in her life. Neither one speaks what goes on in his or her mind frankly. They torment each other, but still love each other at the same time.

 

Director: MENG Jinghui 
MENG Jinghui is the most influential experimental drama director with lofty fame in the Chinese drama circle. He founded Beijing Youth Theatre Festival in 2008 and has served as artistic director since then. He is director of National Theatre of China. As the famous Chinese drama director, MENG Jinghui puts his unique personalized creativity and diversified artistic style into full play. He not only writes a new chapter in contemporary Chinese drama, but also becomes a cultural phenomenon worthy of attention.

 

 

His direction includes Think of Worldly Pleasure, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Rhinoceros in Love, Head without Tail, Amber, In Illusion, Romantic Meeting, The Life Attitude of Two Dogs, Labyrinth and Magic Mountain, all of which have triggered strong responses so that Chinese experimental drama sublimes to the new aesthetics height.

 

MENG also cultivates a large number of drama fans to infuse the energy into new diversification of Chinese drama stage. His film Chicken Poets is awarded with the FIPRESCI Critics Award of Hong Kong International Film Festival and Special Youth Jury Award of Locarno International Film Festival.

 

 

 

 

 

Playwright: LIAO Yimei