Written by Liao Yimei | Original language Chinese (Mandarin) | |
Characters Ma Lu
Ming Ming
Heizi
Daxian
Toothbrush
Hong Kong
Lily Date premiered June 7, 1999 (1999-06-07) Place premiered China National Youth Theatre, Beijing | ||
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.
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.
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