Edward Lam: An Art School Musical

Edward Lam used to educate us in his previous work that we need to grow up and face ourselves bravely. In this new play, Edward has set an example by becomeing more mature, more genuine to himself and more passion to his bloomy age.

The new play was sprouted from a musical called ‘Art School Musical’, as a result that school life has become a label of Edward’s play. No matter how was the stories unfold, the props such as the desks, classrooms, students and teachers would never disapeared. As time passed by, these elements have became symbolic objects in Edward’s play. It would help us to understand Edward better when we know that he was a teacher in the college and wrote his script in the spare time. Therefore, it was beyond doubt that he has composed a play based on school life. ‘An Art School, a group of …show more content…
In his play, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai became two students of an art school where they felt in love with each other when they were learning painting. However, not every first love would end up well and so did the butterful lovers. In Edward’s play, most of the plots from the original butterful lovers were remained for example, the meeting in the pavilion, the 18-mile farewell, the refusion of marriage, the wailing over the grave and the transformation into butterflies. However, the character designs have been changed into a clearer contrast as Liang Shanbo became more inferior and cowardly while Zhu Yingtai became braver than ever. Although the story ended differently in Edward’s play, with the death of Zhu Yingtai the beautiful things always faded away rapidly. Time have passed but the purity of love has never changed. The only thing that has changed was the barrier of finding it. In the past, the obstruction was the feudal oppression while it is the public shaming for