Plays to mark key author's life and work
Starting her career as a playwright in 1980s, Wan Fang has written scripts for movies, TV dramas and plays. One of her most well-known scripts is Winter Journey, which she wrote in 2012 and premiered in 2015.
Winter Journey was first directed by Stan Lai featuring Lan Tianye, a veteran from Beijing People's Art Theater, and Lichun Lee, a longtime collaborator of Lai'. It portrays two writers whose friendship harks back to the 1940s. Political upheaval in 1966 turned the cordial relationship topsy-turvy-with Lao Chen, Lee's character who is a poet and translator of T.S. Eliot, betraying Lao Jin, Lan's character, who is an ardent lover of Franz Schubert. They went through inner struggles of longing for confession and forgiveness from each other.
"What drove writers to write? I would say that when I feel confused, I want to write. I want to figure things out and find answers through the characters I created and the stories I write," says Wan Fang.
