Performance Name: 2024 Live Radio Drama ‘Sound Comes to Agatha’ – ‘The Patient’ and ‘The Rats’
Performance Time: November 21-23, 2024, 19:30 Performing Group: Shanghai Voice Leading Culture Media Co., Ltd., Shanghai Mouse Trap Theatre Studio Performance Duration: 120 minutes (including a 20-minute intermission) Ticket Prices: 680/480/380/280/180 yuan Sales Promotion: Audiences who purchase tickets at 680 yuan can receive a peripheral gift pack, including colored paper, a graffitiable character illustration puzzle, a handheld punch card, and an envelope. After the performance, they can participate in the actor autograph session. Gift Pack Pickup Method: 90 minutes before the performance (i.e., 18:00), audiences who have purchased tickets at the 680 yuan price can pick up the peripheral gift pack in the theater lobby with their tickets. Latecomers can pick it up in the lobby during intermission. *The actor lineup is subject to the actual live performance. *Children under 1.2 meters are not allowed to enter this performance. Children 1.2 meters and above (including 1.2 meters) can enter with tickets. *It is recommended for audiences over 12 years old to watch. *As this performance is a suspenseful radio drama, it is recommended that pregnant women and those with low psychological tolerance purchase tickets with caution. Story Summary: ‘The Patient’: Mrs. Winfield falls from the balcony of her home and is paralyzed. What caused the accident? The police have no clues. The only one who knows the truth is Mrs. Winfield herself. But unfortunately, excessive shock has made her lose the ability to communicate with others. Finally, Detective Clay uses the scientific device being studied by Dr. Ginsberg and discovers a clever way to communicate with patients. They plan to solve the mystery in front of all relatives. As the red light of the device frequently lights up, more and more information is revealed. The people present start to get nervous, expose and accuse each other, and the scene is in chaos. It seems that someone does not want the patient to point out the real situation on that fatal afternoon. ‘The Rats’: The adulterous lovers, Sandra and David, are invited by phone to Michael Torrance’s apartment in Hamsptead, ostensibly to attend a party. However, the Torrance siblings have not appeared. The development of things makes them more and more uneasy. Just when they are trying to leave, they find that the door has been locked, and there is a chilling secret hidden in a large box in the middle of the house… Original Author: This performance is selected from two one-act play scripts created by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie is a British novelist and playwright known as the “universally recognized queen of detective novels.”Appointed by the Queen of England as the ‘Queen of Detectives’; recipient of the ‘Order of the British Empire’; Honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Exeter; recipient of the ‘Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire’. Agatha Christie wrote over 80 long novels, more than 100 short stories, and 17 plays in her lifetime. Her works have been translated into 103 languages and published in 157 countries, ranking among the top three best-selling books in the world alongside the Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare. According to a 1961 UNESCO report, Agatha Christie was the best-selling writer in the world at that time. Among her countless admirers were Queen Elizabeth of England and French President Charles de Gaulle. Highlights of the play: · Breaking tradition, innovative form: By bringing the traditional audio art form of radio plays to the live stage as ‘live radio plays’, it achieves an ‘immersive’ live performance. This innovation not only breaks the limitations of traditional radio plays but also allows the audience to enjoy the audio while witnessing the brilliant performances of the actors, bringing a new ‘listening to drama’ experience. · Rich stage performance elements: To enhance the观赏性和互动性 of the performance, more drama actors were added to the play, and voice actors put down their scripts to participate more actively in the performance. This change makes the entire stage performance more vivid and three-dimensional, allowing the audience to more directly feel the emotions of the characters and the atmosphere of the story. · Immersive story experience: Before the performance begins, the dim light seen through the recording studio’s small windows on the stage and the busy preparation scenes of the actors create an atmosphere for the audience as if they are about to enter the story world. When the On Air light box lights up and the four large curtains open, the recording studio instantly transforms into the scene of a suspense story, making the audience feel as if they are in the story, transforming from listeners to witnesses of the story. · Unique stage design style: The stage design abandons the flashy decorative style, instead using conceptual color blocks and contrasting colors to express personality. This design not only fits with the theme of the radio play but also cleverly leads the audience back to the retro and mysterious 1960s when rock music was popular. With careful matching of lighting, costumes, and makeup, it further deepens the audience’s perception of the story’s background and atmosphere. Director: Lin Yi, a national first-class director, graduated from the Directing Department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, and is the director of the Shanghai Mousetrap Theatre Studio. Play directing works: ‘And Then There Were None’, ‘Death of a Salesman’, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’, ‘And Then There Were None’, ‘Witness for the Prosecution’, ‘An Unexpected Guest’, ‘Voices of Agatha’, ‘Broken Mirror’, ‘The Hollow’, ‘Looking Back on the Case’, ‘Deathtrap’, etc. Performance works: ‘Father’, ‘The Golden Cangue’, ‘The糊涂戏班’, ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World’, ‘Deathtrap’, ‘An Unexpected Guest’, etc. Translation and text creation works: ‘Death of a Salesman’, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, ‘Broken Mirror’, ‘The Great Stage: Starting from
Wu Lei is a voice actor and director of Listen·Shanghai Listen Media Co., Ltd., and a member of Shanghai Film Association. Awards: Won the Outstanding Foreign Film Dubbing Award of the 9th and 10th China Huabiao Awards. Director works: Sound director of the Chinese localization of DreamWorks’ super fantasy theater show ‘Dragon Training Show’; sound director and lead actor of live radio drama ‘The Adventure of Agatha’. Some film works he has dubbed: ‘Harry Potter’, ‘The Classic’, ‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘Inception’, ‘Captain America’, ‘Frozen’, ‘Love Actually’, ‘Night at the Museum’, ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Speed Racer’, ‘Liar Liar’, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, ‘Hancock’, ‘10,000 BC’, ‘Twilight’, ‘Dream Hunter’, ‘Dagger in the Snow’. The main creative team: Co-produced by Shanghai Listen Media Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Mousetrap Drama Studio. Tour organizer: Blue Horizon Culture Media. Playwright: Agatha Christie [UK]. Producer: Di Feifei. Supervisors: Tong Xin, Zhao Qianjing. Producer: Tao Ran. Directors: Lin Yi, Wu Lei. Script translator: Zhang Youyou. Stage designer: Zhou Linger. Production manager: Jin Guanglin. Full text opening time: November 21 – November 23, Thursday – Saturday. The performance time and duration are subject to the actual situation on site.
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