UCCA Beijing

National Theatre Live

2016.5.1 - 2016.7.24

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 Theatre. 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 we presented 3 theatres by William Shakespeare , we tent to present comedy series, Man and Superman, As You Like It, and One Man, Two Guvnors.

Ticketing

For our 2 screening events this July, (Man and Superman and As You Like It)

Tickets can be purchased in packages of three for RMB 200 (discount of RMB 40)

or RMB 160 for UCCA members (discount of RMB 80).

Note:

*Enjoy UCCA Member ticket prices with the purchase of a yearly membership card (RMB 200);

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

* Please no late entry;

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

*Please keep mobile devices on silent.

Schedule

5.1 (Sun) 14:00-17:00 Hamlet

5.21 (Sat) 14:00-17:00 As You Like It

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

6.18 (Sat) 14:00-17:00 One Man, Two Guvnors

6.18 (Sat) 18:00-21:00 Man and Superman

7.24 (Sun) 14:00-17:00 Man and Superman

7.24 (Sun) 18:00-21:00 As You Like It

About the Film

Hamlet

Director: Lyndsey Turner

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch

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.

As You Like It

Director: Simon Godwin

Starring: Rosalie Craig

Country: UK

Runtime: 160 min.

Shakespeare's glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years, with Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth at MIF) as Rosalind.

With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden.

There, released from convention, Rosalind experiences the liberating rush of transformation. Disguising herself as a boy, she embraces a different way of living and falls spectacularly in love.

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 comedy." The Daily Telegraph described it as "the feel-good 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".

Man and Superman

Director: Simon Godwin

Starring: Ralph Fiennes

Country: UK

Runtime: 219 min.

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.

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.

Collaborators

National Theatre of China

Royal National Theatre

Beijing ATW Culture Media Co. Ltd.

British Council

IELTS

Projection Support

BARCO