UCCA Beijing

National Theatre Live Screenings: New Classic

2017.5.14 - 2017.7.15

Cinema Arts
Location:  Auditorium
Language:  English with Chinese subtitles

“National Theatre Live” is jointly staged by the National Theatre of China and the Royal National Theater. The program brings top productions from the stages of London and New York to Beijing and UCCA via high-definition screenings. The use of slide rails, close-ups, and other features offers audiences a detailed audiovisual experience that heightens the unique charms of the theater. After the successful run of “Political Circle” in spring, UCCA brings back two titles from the screening series—Coriolanus and Hamlet—for a second showing, together with the new screening series, “New Classic,” which includes Man and Superman, The Deep Blue Sea, The Threepenny Opera and One Man, Two Guvnors.

Ticketing:

Ticket Package (includes 2 ticekts):

200RMB Ticket Package / Adult

160RMB Ticket Package / UCCA Member

Single Ticket:

RMB 120 / Adult

RMB 80 / UCCA Member

Note:

*Enjoy UCCA Member ticket prices with the purchase of a yearly membership card (RMB 300);

*Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins;

* Please no late entry;

*Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually;

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Schedule

5.14(Sun)13:00-16:00 Coriolanus

5.14(Sun)17:00-20:40 Hamlet

5.27(Sat)13:00-16:40 Man and Superman

5.27(Sat)18:00-20:50 The Deep Blue Sea

6.10(Sat)13:00-16:20 The Threepenny Opera

6.10(Sat)18:00-21:05 One Man, Two Guvnors

6.24(Sat)13:00-16:40 Man and Superman

6.24(Sat)18:00-21:20 The Threepenny Opera

7.8(Sat)13:00-16:05 One Man, Two Guvnors

7.8(Sat)18:00-20:50 The Deep Blue Sea

About the Film

Coriolanus

Director: Josie Rourke

Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Mark Gatiss

Genre: Play

Country: UK

Runtime: 150 min.

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more upon her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field, Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of angry people.

Hamlet

Director: Lyndsey Turner

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch

Genre: Play

Country: UK

Runtime: 220 min.

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy, directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

Man and Superman

Director: Simon Godwin

Starring: Ralph Fiennes

Country: UK

Runtime: 219 min.

Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary.

Tony Award winner, multiple times Academy and Golden Globe Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.

The Deep Blue Sea

Director: Carrie Cracknell

Starring: Helen McCrory

Genre: Play

Country: UK

Runtime: 166 min.

Hester Collyer, the younger wife of a High Court judge, has embarked on a passionate affair with a handsome young former RAF pilot. As her attempt to commit suicide fails, Hester's affair and the broken relationship with her husband is discovered. Written by Terence Rattigan, the play first came out in 1952 in the UK and the US before being adapted into a film in 1955, starring Vivien Leigh, and a 1994 TV series starring Colin Firth. Directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Helen McCrory, the current title has garnered five-star reviews from The Times and Time Out.

The Threepenny Opera

Director: Rufus Knowles

Starring: Rory Kinnear / Rosalie Craig

Genre: Play

Country: UK

Runtime: 200 min.

First conceived by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill’s as a modern revival of The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera is doubtlessly one of the greatest plays throughout the 20th century. Ostensibly set against a London near the end of the Victorian era, the work is Brecht’s satire on the corrupt capitalist society of the Weimar Republic after World War I. The current adaptation is directed by Rufus Knowles, director of the Royal National Theater, working with playwright Simon Stevens.

One Man, Two Guvnors

Director: Richard Bean

Starring: James Corden

Country: UK

Runtime: 185 min.

Adapted by Richard Bean from the Commedia dell'arte style comedy play, The Servant of Two Masters, by the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni, 2011 National Theatre Production of One Man, Two Guvnors replaces the Italian period setting of the original with Brighton in 1963. This production got five-star rave review from The Guardian as “a triumph of visual and verbal comeday.” The Daily Telegraph described it as "the feelgood hit of the Summer." The Independent wrote that it is a "massive hit" and London's Evening Standard as "a surefire hit". Blogging site Everything Theatre described it as "one of the most side-splittingly hilarious productions ever to be staged in London".

Collaborators

National Theatre of China

National Theatre

Beijing ATW Culture Media Co., Ltd.

Arts Council England

Projection Support

BARCO