10.1 (Sun) 14:00-17:00 No Man’s Land

10.2 (Mon) 14:00-16:00 Frankenstein (Benedict Cumberbatch acts as the doctor)

10.3 (Tue) 14:00-16:00 Frankenstein (Benedict Cumberbatch acts as the Creature)

No Man’s Land

Director: Sean Mathias

Starring: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart

Category: Theater

Country: United Kingdom

Runtime: 180 min

A popular work of Nobel Price winner and contemporary absurdist playwright, Harold Pinter, No Man’s Land premiered at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, in 1975. Pinter was also later invited to act in the play. This new edition was directed by Sean Mathias, starring “Gandalf” Ian McKellen and “Professor X” Patrick Stewart. These two veteran actors, whose combined age is over 150, were widely praised for their performances during the British tour of the play. No Man’s Land tells the story of two aging writers, Hirst and Spooner, who meet in a Hampstead pub one summer’s evening and end up drinking into the night at Hirst's nearby estate. As the men get more intoxicated, their stories become absurd, and their conversation soon turns into a power game. The situation gets all the more complicated when two younger men return home…

Frankenstein

Director: Danny Boyle

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller

Category: Theatre

Country: United Kingdom

Runtime: 130 min
Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who is deeply absorbed in his unorthodox experiments aimed at creating artificial life. After thousands of trials, he finally creates a hideous creature. Met with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, kills Frankenstein’s brother and fiancée. A fight between Frankenstein and the creature results in their deaths. The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and has since been praised by over half a million people in cinemas around the world. The Times regards Frankenstein as “a great success in theater.”

Royal National Theatre

Beijing ATW Culture Media Co., Ltd.

Beijing ATW Culture Media is devoted to promoting great theatrical content from all over the world. In June 2015, National Theatre Live was launched in China in collaboration with National Theatres of Great Britain, and the British Council in China. In late 2016, it was followed by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Live from Stratford-upon-Avon in collaboration with Trafalgar Releasing. Starting from 2017, new titles from National Theatre Live, Royal Shakespeare Company’s Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, Almedia Theatre, Branagh Live, Stage Russia HD, and Broadway HD will have their Chinese premieres, featuring actors Daniel Radcliffe, Dame Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Antony Sher, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, and Derek Jacobi. So far thirty-eight theatre productions from the UK have been broadcast in cinemas and theaters to more than 170,000 people in 49 venues across 23 cities on mainland China and in Taiwan.

Arts Council England