Stage Play "The Village" (Bao Dao Yi Cun)

This is a story that would be forgotten if left untold. Its sheer brilliance led *The Beijing News* to hail it as "a pinnacle of the stage play in our era." After watching it, Brigitte Lin remarked: "I was completely spellbound—alternating between melancholy and comfort, bursting into laughter one moment and sobbing the next. My tears had barely dried before I found myself smiling again; no sooner had I stopped laughing than I was back in tears. What kind of play is this? It’s made me act like a complete fool!" It is a story that speaks to the unbreakable emotional bonds—thicker than water—between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.