Chinese Version
Plays by Ren Ming Young

Le You Yuan

a play finished in Mar 2009



Le You Yuan is a play about seeking and forgetting, also about the fate and dreams within other dreams. Fragmented plots, unusual dialogues and uncertain relationships between the characters make the scenes like real life reflected in dreams. 
The most uncommon role in this play is Lai Ning who was a hero died at the age of 14 in 1988. He was a real boy once lived in the real world, but makes the play unreal. 
The name of this play "Le You Yuan" was an ancient plateau in Xi'an. Thousand years ago, ChangAn, today's Xi'an, was the capital of Tang Dynasty, one of the world's most prosperous cities. There was a plateau at the southeast of ChangAn town with open views and beautiful scenery called the plateau of Having Fun(Le You Yuan). Many young people and poets went there for a happy time, such as the famous poet Li Shang-yin who wrote the well-known sentence "Sunset is infinite beauty except impending of dusk” there. But now, Le You Yuan is totally different: has long been a waste land. 
By using the name of Le You Yuan and Lai Ning, this play had made an extraordinary symbol world that sincerely call the spirit of humanism, inspire people rethink about idealism and go to explore the great world, and to create a magnificent life. 





History Staging:
2011, Beijing, R.M.Y Theatre Company, Directed by Ren Ming Young
Premiered on Sep 13th 2011 at TNT Theatre of Chaoyang Nine Theatre
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2009, Shanghai, Linc2 Theatre Company, Directed by Ren Ming Young
Premiered on April 1st 2009 at Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
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