Published on Nov 12, 2018

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: November 28 - December 5, 2018

Times: 7:30pm

Venue: Drama Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 240, 400, 600, 700, 800, 1000

Features: The Beijing LI Liuyi Theatre Studio's new drama Hamlet stars Chinese theatre artists including HU Jun, PU Cunxin. It will be stage in Drama theatre of NCPA from November 28 to December 5, 2018.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The Beijing LI Liuyi Theatre Studio's new drama Hamlet stars Chinese theatre artists including HU Jun, PU Cunxin, LU Fang and JING Hao. Director LI Liuyi with a profound grasp of the traditional Chinese opera art, uses Shakespeare's masterpiece to mirror the contemporary and future and presents the Chinese aesthetics and philosophy with the support from the Royal Shakespeare Company and international creative team. To be performed is the latest Chinese translation of Hamlet, from Shakespeare's First Folio.

Leading Cast: HU Jun, PU Cunxin, LU Fang, JING Hao
Cast: MIAO Chi, LI Shilong, Jampa Tseten, JING Xi, FU Pengxu, HU Yuejia

Programme
Killing his elder brother King Hamlet, the king of Denmark Claudius marries his newly widowed sister-in-law in haste and takes the throne for himself. At midnight, the late king’s ghost appears and tells his son Hamlet that he was killed with poison by Claudius and asks Hamlet to take revenge on him. Faced with a series of misfortunes, Hamlet cannot but pretend crazy to dissimulate his fears. In his mother’s bedroom, Hamlet accidentally kills his lover Ophelia’s father Polonius, believing it is Claudius behind a tapestry.

Claudius takes the opportunity to ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to frog-march Hamlet to England and writes to the English king to kill Hamlet. Hamlet meets trick with trick and perpetrates a scheme midway, doing away with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern through the hands of English king. Then, he escapes back to Denmark. Laertes, the son of Polonius, returns to Denmark from France, enraged by his father's death and sister's madness. Claudius instigate Laertes to make a duel against Hamlet. Laertes takes out a poisoned sword and Claudius puts poison in Hamlet’s goblet. In the end, Gertrude drinks the poisonous wine and dies, while both Hamlet and Laertes were killed by the poisoned sword.

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