Isolated islands, gorgeous and mysterious villas, roaring storms, ten visitors who do not know each other, mysterious voices uncover the secrets that people have hidden in their hearts for many years, and ancient nursery rhymes are like curses, sounding again and again in the heart... The final version of the classic suspense drama "No One Survives", brought by the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center and the Shanghai Mousetrap Drama Studio, will land in Kunming from June 26 to 27 and start a shocking performance at the Haigeng Hall in Yunnan.
The horror suspense drama landed in the Haigeng Synagogue
The classic suspense novel No One Survives, also known as Ten Little Blacks, published in 1939, is one of the most famous novels of Agatha Christie, the "queen of speculative fiction" in Britain. This classic novel does not appear any detectives, but in one fell swoop opens up two major modes of speculative literature, "Isolated Island Villa" and "Nursery Rhyme Killing", and the successors inspired by it are the number of car buckets. The drama "No One Survives" is also a script rewritten by herself, in the performance process of nearly 3 hours, the character dialogue is compact, under the exquisite arrangement of the director, every line is hidden and mysterious, full of meticulous logic, so that the whole story is still worth recalling and scrutinizing after the end.
In 2007, the drama "No One Survives" landed in China for the first time, as a work about conspiracy and vendetta, the plot is quite tense, and when performed in Shanghai, the theater screams one after another, known as the most thrilling drama.
On a stormy night, ten people who did not know each other were invited by the wealthy Mr. Owen to their private villa on Soldier Island. After dinner, a mysterious voice uncovers the terrible secrets that people have hidden in their hearts. That night, the young Mr. Marston died mysteriously, the ancient horror nursery rhymes hung over everyone like a curse, it seemed that a pair of mysterious eyes were constantly peeping at this game of death, and the visitors walked to death one by one like disappearing little soldiers...
Judges, teachers, colonels, doctors, housekeepers, policemen... Eyewitness or accomplice? Accidental or deliberate murder? The dolls on the table disappear one by one, and the unknown suspense is revealed one by one...
"Who killed them?" Until the end of the story, the mystery haunts everyone, and finally a mysterious confession solves the mystery. What is really surprising is not the imperceptible means of the perpetrator, but the identity and motive of the murderer. The sorrow of human nature cannot be suppressed in the final confession, the desert island in the sea is like a lost human heart, which becomes helpless in the reflection of sin and error, civilization is deserted on the island, and the moral exile land is depressed, and no one survives.
How did ten people die one after another in such a short period of time? The audience sitting below the stage is unknown. The stage is hurried, and the original book is written in a hurry. Who put cyanide into the cup? And how to take the opportunity to inject it into the deceased? How did the axe slash at the butler with full force? How does this murderer have time to commit crimes? There is no show on the stage, and there are no details in the original book. However, the nearly three-hour drama stunned the audience, and everyone held their breath and felt this mysterious force from the depths of darkness.
Shanghai Mousetrap Drama Studio focuses on suspense
The drama "No One Survives" is jointly created by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center and Shanghai Mousetrap Drama Studio. Founded in April 2007, Shanghai Mousetrap Drama Studio is mainly engaged in the research and promotion of Agatha Christie's plays and suspense and mystery plays. The studio brings on stage many of Agatha Christie's theatrical works and other excellent suspense and mystery plays, aiming to be faithful to the original and exquisitely presented, so that more audiences can enjoy the theatrical works of the masters of suspense.
The stage set of the play will restore the realistic style of the British stage performance, so that the audience can experience the life-like performance of the mystery drama and the immersive thriller suspense.
In creating a suspenseful atmosphere, "No One Survives" shows the aesthetic characteristics of oriental horror, advancing from the psychological upper layers to stimulate people's sense of horror about the unknown world and unknown fate. Ancient nursery rhymes hang over everyone like a curse, and it seems that there is a pair of mysterious eyes peeking into this game of death at all times... The mansion lost power, the wind and rain outside the house, the lightning and thunder, the candlelight flickered, the eerie music, the survivors suspected each other, and the audience screamed everywhere.
City Times all-media intern reporter: Ye Muyu
Editor-in-charge: Nong Tianqin
Editor: Li Xing
Final Judge: Qian Hongbing
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