Enter the world of A Dream of Red Mansions, where love, memory, and destiny intertwine. Follow Jia Baoyu through the grandeur of the Rong Mansion as he grows up alongside Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. Within the beauty of the Grand View Garden, innocence blossoms into first love before fading with the quiet ache of time.

As the story unfolds, passion meets duty and joy turns to loss. Family expectations, unspoken longing, and fleeting youth collide in moments both tender and heartbreaking. By the end, Jia Baoyu’s journey becomes a reflection on love and impermanence, leaving audiences with a moving and poetic experience that lingers long after the final curtain.

Enter the world of A Dream of Red Mansions, where love, memory, and destiny intertwine. Follow Jia Baoyu through the grandeur of the Rong Mansion as he grows up alongside Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. Within the beauty of the Grand View Garden, innocence blossoms into first love before fading with the quiet ache of time.

As the story unfolds, passion meets duty and joy turns to loss. Family expectations, unspoken longing, and fleeting youth collide in moments both tender and heartbreaking. By the end, Jia Baoyu’s journey becomes a reflection on love and impermanence, leaving audiences with a moving and poetic experience that lingers long after the final curtain.

Prelude
In a boundless field, Jia Baoyu retreats from the material world. Around him, the souls of the Grand View Garden’s girls appear as drifting flowers – echoes of past lives. Among them, he sees himself and Lin Daiyu as Deity Shenying and Fairy Crimson Pearl, reunited in a dance of eternal affection.
Act I
Scene I
The grandeur of the Rong Mansion returns. Young Baoyu, adored by all, meets the delicate Lin Daiyu – their souls instantly remembering a love from another life.
Scene II
Baoyu and Daiyu grow up as inseparable childhood companions. When Xue Baochai joins the family, her golden locket mirrors Baoyu’s jade, sparking quiet jealousy and sorrow in Daiyu’s heart.
Scene III
Ordered to study, Baoyu drifts into sleep, dreaming of love and duty. His sister’s rise as Imperial Concubine marks the family’s highest glory – and the beginning of its decline.
Scene IV
Baoyu and Daiyu read Romance of the West Chamber, tasting first love and its melancholy. As flowers bloom and fall, Daiyu mourns their passing – sensing her own fragile fate.
Act II
Scene I
Baoyu’s rebellion angers his father, who punishes him harshly. Moved by pity, Daiyu sends him her love through a poem and a tear-stained handkerchief.
Scene II
During Baoyu’s birthday celebration, joy turns hollow. News arrives of Imperial Concubine Yuan’s death; chaos descends on the Jia household. Baoyu loses both his precious jade – and his reason.
Scene III
To save him, the family arranges a marriage with Xue Baochai. As wedding music swells, Daiyu burns her poems in despair. Baoyu lifts his bride’s veil, realises it is not Daiyu, and flees in madness.
Epilogue
Alone once more, Baoyu walks through the endless field, surrounded by spirits of the past. He bids farewell to each soul, realising all has been a dream — yet the love within that dream will live forever.
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Event Info
Singapore
Esplanade Theatres
Thu, 12 March – Sun, 15 March 2026
Duration
120 minutes with 20 minutes interval
Price
Tickets from $88 - $388 available on SISTIC
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