Beijing Ren 《北京人》

Last sat, went with a group of colleagues to watch a play from Beijing "Beijing Ren". It was a long 3 hrs show @Esplanade...though ended up we running to catch the last train...it was pretty worth it...
an interesting plot with many emotionally-entangled relationships of modern and traditional era...still relevant to our society now where we still face issues of being either too enmeshed with our families or too detached from them.

Cao Yu's own personal favourite play Beijing Ren comes to Singapore replete with a vast paper-house that bespeaks the fragility and fractured emotions of the people who live and take shelter in it. Set in 1937, a family is torn apart by selfishness, divided loyalties, unrequited and unfulfilling love, and yet unable to escape its own entrapment. This theatre classic exposes the eclipse of traditional feudal families at a time of turbulent change in China.

《北京人》北京人民艺术剧场（中国）中国现代话剧的一代宗师－曹禺，致力于刻画人物的心灵交锋和冲突，真实反映中国人民追求新生活的历程。曹禺的剧作《雷雨》和《原野》最常被搬上舞台。《北京人》是曹禺于1940年创作的第五部剧作，也是他自己认为最满意和最成熟的一部剧作。该剧描写1937年封建大家庭的一群"活死人"；曾家祖孙三代人展开的矛盾冲突，展现他们在文明社会中扭曲的生存状态。《北京人》去年在北京上演而轰动一时。舞台上的四合院给人一种即将倒塌的感觉，表现了这个封建大家庭走向瓦解的命运。