

Using Realism props, Lai ingeniously interweaves inter-referentiality and juxtaposition of postmodernism in Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land. I interpret Theater Stage Director Stan Lai’s six representative works, including Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (1986, 1999), Journey to the West (1987), Turn Back to the Other Shore (1989), We Won’t Pay, We Won’t Pay (1998), A Dream Like a Dream (2005), and River/Cloud (2021).

When things don't go his way, he lashes out like a feral beast and doesn't care who he kills to regain control.This chapter is what I presented online in the 1st International Stan Lai Symposium at Nanjing University in China on Sep. Brisby ( Elizabeth Hartman), the widow of the mouse who saved the rats from NIMH, comes to them for help to move her home. He never misses an opportunity to increase his power, including when Mrs. Jenner is the rat who retains the most animalistic tendencies, which makes him so dangerous. Related: 10 Non-Disney Villains Who Should Have Their Own Disney Movie Things came to a head when their leader, Nicodemus ( Derek Jacobi) propose a plan for the rats to become self-sufficient without stealing from humans.

While the other rats began to question their new responsibility thanks to their intelligence, Jenner sought only as much power as he could. One of the twenty rats captured by the National Institute of Mental Health, Jenner ( Paul Shenar) was granted enhanced intelligence and a prolonged lifespan by their experiments.
