Eleven senior high school students, with an average age of 16, have stunned Shanghai audiences with a novel interpretation of renowned playwright Stan Lai's stage play "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" at Theater Above. The play sees two theater groups mistakenly booked into the same theater for dress rehearsals. "It is a classic text using Bertolt Brecht's defamiliarization concept," said director and actress Yang Ruoran. "One play within a play is a calm, contemporary tragedy and the other is a clamorous ancient-time comedy.

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