The stage play Rickshaw Boy, a classic masterpiece drama by the Chinese writer Lao She, was presented at the National Center for Performing Arts from Aug. 10 to 14. The performance is a special performance for the 90th Anniversary of CPC’s Founding.

Since the premiere 50 years ago, Mr. Lao She’s classic masterpiece drama Rickshaw Boy has been “rehearsed” again by Beijing People’s Art Theatre. The performance is directed by Gu Wei (the old artist in Beijing People’s Art Theatre), and two young rookies join in - Yu Zhen (the male leading role in TV play Luliang Heroes) acts the role of Xiangzi, and Wang Qianhua (winner of Flying Award by starring in TV play Woman Heading A Family) acts the role of Huniu.

Rehearsed Rickshaw Boy highlights today’s indifferent human relationship in the society, and reproduces working people’s honest and sincere human touch in old Beijing at that time. Through sound effect, Rickshaw Boy shows cock crow in semi-rural area in northwest Beijing from morning to night, Suona in wedding and funeral ceremonies and huckster shouts day and night in winter so as to restore the bustling life inside and outside courtyards in old Beijing in the 1920s.

The Rickshaw Boy tells the all-too-real story of Xiangzi, an athletic, boyish rickshaw puller who is struggling to find financial security through owning his own rickshaw but who encounters one disaster after another.