SHAKESPEARE 

• The Tempest (twice)
• King Lear
• Julius Caesar
• Henry V
• Richard III
• Othello
• Twelfth Night
• As You Like It
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Titus Andronicus
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Shakespeare on Love (conceived by PKU students, using only Shakespearean love scenes)

As well as the above full-length productions, the Institute has adapted and performed the entire Shakespearean canon in 30 minute versions of all of Shakespeare’s plays.

OTHER FULL-LENGTH WESTERN PLAYS by such renowned playwrights as: Moliere, Antoine Chekhov, Carlo Gozzi, Bertolt Brecht, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neil and others. 

• Our Town
• The King Stag
• Ah Wilderness
• The Miracle Worker
• All My Sons
• Good Woman of Szechuan (Straight play version)
• Tartuffe
• The Imaginary Invalid
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Glass Menagerie
• Phaedra
• No Exit
• Big Sur
• Pygmalion
• Einstein’s Dreams
• Scrooge’s New Year
• Man’s Best Friend

 MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERAS

• Fiddler on the Roof
• 1776
• Three Penny Opera
• Spring Awakening (workshop production)
• Good Woman of Szechuan (An Original Musical version)

ONE ACT PLAYS

• Revel’s World of Shakespeare
• Deer Play
• Rooftop Lesson
• Penguin
• The Dangers of Tobacco
• The Proposal
• The Bear
• The Blind
• Persephone Underground
• Medusa’s Tale
• A Separate Peace
• Pagoda (A Noh play, presented in collaboration with the Oshima Noh Theatre of Japan )

ORIGINAL PLAYS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH BY CHINESE STUDENTS

• The Monkey King (Also received 2 separate American productions)
• The Land of the Dragon (Also received an American production)
• On The Lantern Festival (Also received an American production)
• A Summer’s Tale In Winter
• The Arson
• Eurydice’s Escape

In the last nine years, more than 3000 Beida students have taken part in the various English-language stage productions of the Institute of World Theatre and Film under the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University. These productions have been seen by literally ten of thousands of audience members in China as well as in 6 other countries*. The institute has employed 75 professional Western actors (both British and American Equity members) as well as 50 professional Chinese actors to work in these productions.

*As well as performing inMainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, some of our productions have toured in America, England and in the Middle East.