Weekly culture & leisure guide (Dec 27-Jan 3)

Rhinoceros in Love celebrates its 20th birthday in Beijing

Since its 1999 premier in the Chinese capital, Rhinoceros in Love by China's avant-garde theater director Meng Jinghui, has garnered numerous praise and has been acclaimed as "the bible of love for young people".

Now the show is celebrating its 20th birthday with performances running until Jan 5 at the Fengchao (Honeycomb) Theater which the director specifically spruced up for the show in 2008.

As one of Meng's beloved experimental works, the play tells a triangle love story in which a young man named Ma Lu is deeply enamored with a woman named Mingming and tries everything he can to win her heart. But after he fails, Ma, like a stubborn rhinoceros, goes to an extreme by kidnapping Mingming in the name of love.

If you go:

Dec 27-Jan 5. Fengchao (Honeycomb) Theater, No 3, Xinzhongjie, Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Dongcheng district. 86-10-6416-9253 北京市東城區東直門外大街新中街3號,蜂巢劇場