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NCPA Drama Production Returning Home on a Snowy Night

Date: May 13-22 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 180-680 yuan

This drama is named after a line from the poem Staying at a Cottage of Mt. Hibiscus on a Night of Snow of the Tang Dynasty: 'When the mountains lurk dim in the pale dark, the cottage of shabby looks stands lone in twilight. By the wattle gate now I hear dogs loudly bark, the master has come home in the snow of night.' Wu Zuguang, the playwright, described the joys and sorrows of the famous actor named Wei Liansheng in the historical context where people were swaying in the midst of a raging storm. He has experienced both the prosperity of being popular in early years and hard times of despair; and the love story between him and Yuchun, a concubine of the bureaucrat named Su Hongji is just a sad melody that cost their lives.