全剧从北齐名将兰陵王的传奇故事发展出全新的情节，将兰陵王设置成一个因目睹父王被害而用女儿态掩藏真性情的柔弱王子，齐后为唤回兰陵王的男儿血性，授予他先王遗物——神兽大面，戴上大面的兰陵王神奇般地平添雄伟气概，在战场上所向无*，却也同时走到冷酷无情、暴虐可怖的人性另一个极端。最终，齐后用母性的牺牲帮助兰陵王告别迷途，回归本我。全剧用艺术象征的方式，讲述了一个关于“灵魂与面具”的寓言，体现对悲剧命运的观照，引发观众对于人性、本心的思考和探讨。

The Prince of Lanling

Synopsis

The Prince of Lanling grows new plots from a legend featuring Lanling in the Northern Qi Dynasty in ancient China. Lanling who witnessed his father killed pretends to be a weak womanish prince concealing his true self. His mother, the Queen gives him a mask carved with mythical creatures bequeathed by his father, the former King. After taking the mask, Lanling who gains miraculous power sweeps all the enemies invincibly, meanwhile he goes into an extreme of cruelty and brutality. In the end, the Queen sacrifices her life with her maternal love to help Lanling his son out of the wrong path, and help him return back to his true self. The play adopts symbolic techinique to tell an allegory about “soul and mask”, which manifests the contemplation on tragic fate, intending to invoke thinking and discussion about human nature as well as true self from audience.