Tonight at 19:10, the Drum Tower West Theater will hold a live broadcast of the script reading meeting.
The famous actor Zhao Lixin served as the director and star of the script reading, and let us relive the charm of the theater before officially entering the theater.
This is an extraordinary live theater performance, and the actors holding the script take to the stage of the Drum Tower West Theater.
From the opening bell to the closing curtain to the post-performance communication, there is no shortage of links in the theater performance; lighting, music, necessary scheduling, the elements of the theater performance, a lot!
Although script reading is different from theatrical performance, the script reading of "Gulou West Line 730" is by no means a simple reading of the play, as far as possible to mobilize the theater elements, and provide a rich and colorful viewing experience in the camera.
Rehearsal photos will be read aloud
The repertoire of this reading is the famous playwright Martin McDonagh's "Broken Hand City", which is the third performance of Martin McDona's play by the Drum Tower West Theater after "Pillow Man" and "The Beauty of Li Nanshan".
For several days, the actors rehearsed intensely. Fierce quarrels, muffled cries, violent shouts, sudden gunshots... Inside the Drum Tower West Theater, there are one sound after another.
How can it not be expected?
After "Pillow Man" and "The Beauty of Li Nanshan"
Ghost Martin McDonagh in drum tower west of the black third bullet
"730 on the West Line of Gulou" Script Reading Session (Public Welfare Performance)
Broken Hand City
Writers: Martin McDonagh
Translator/Literary Consultant: Hu Kaiqi
Director: Zhao Lixin
Actors: Zhao Lixin / Li Hongchen / Yu Mengchao
Wang Yidan/Du Gonghai
Lighting design: Ren Dongsheng
Music Design: Zhang Xiaochen
Styling design: Liu Tao
Assistant Director: Shang Xiaolei
Live broadcast: May 13, 2020
19:10-21:50
Live platform: Himalayas
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Broken Hands City premiered at the Skeenfield Theater on Broadway in New York in 2010 and starred Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, and Anthony McKay. It is Martin McDonagh's first American-themed black comedy that presents a unique American phenomenon.
In Pillow Man, the intricate and intricate narrative labyrinth he constructs is mesmerizing; in "The Beauty of Lisan Mountain", the tyrannical and twisted relationship between mother and daughter in "The Beauty of Li nanshan" is chilling; in "Broken Hand City", we will once again appreciate Martin McDonaer's unique style of writing mixed with horror, humor and fantasy.
Still brain-opening, still suspenseful, still hiding a trace of warmth behind pain and absurdity.
Synopsis
A small American town, a dilapidated hotel room.
The mysterious middle-aged man, Carmekou, has been frantically searching for twenty-seven years for his left hand, which was cut off when he was a teenager. A couple, Toby and Marilyn, claim to own Cameko's left hand and try to defraud Camiko's bounty. During the transaction, the eccentric hotel front desk Mervyn intervenes, and he discovers that Toby is the fraudster who has harmed him.
Carmeko sees the ruse, and Toby and Marilyn are in danger. In the corner of the room, the gasoline barrel under the candle was about to detonate. At the moment of life and death, for the sake of survival, for revenge, for the sake of clarifying the truth, for twenty-seven years of persistent pursuit, the fates of the four people are intertwined in a mysterious way.
Rating word of mouth
An entertaining black comedy!
- New York Daily News
A good story that meets broadway standards of commercial entertainment, and a serious drama full of critical spirit and human exploration.
--Hu Kaiqi, theater translator and theater researcher
Screenwriter Profile
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh was born in 1970 and is a representative of contemporary theatre. As a representative writer of the British "face the wave of drama" and a master of bad taste in the field of dark fairy tales, he is another outstanding dramatist in Ireland after Wilde, Yeats, Shaw Bernard and Beckett. McDonagh had four productions performed simultaneously in London's professional theatre in the same season, and the last person to achieve this achievement was Shakespeare. As a playwright, he is known for his absurd black humor and provocative spirit. His appalling work has earned him numerous prestigious awards, including three Lawrence Oliver Awards, as well as multiple Tony Award nominations. In 2003, Martin McDonagh's "Pillow Man" was staged in London, England, which caused a huge sensation. After that, "Pillow Man" has set off a black wave in New York, Paris and other places.
In film, he is the most talented screenwriter since Quentin Tarantino. In recent years, McDonagh has also gained a lot in the field of film. In 2017, he directed the crime drama "Three Billboards" and won the Best Screenplay Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, the Best Screenplay Award at the 75th Golden Globe Awards for American Film and Television, and the nomination for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards. Previously, in 2006, his "Six Gunners" won him an Oscar, and in 2008, he wrote and directed his feature film "Killer No Holiday", which won many praises for his unique style and excellent quality, and also won him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. In 2012, he directed the feature film Seven Neurotics, which was nominated for the Best British Film Award at the 66th British Academy Film Awards.
Director/Actor
Zhao Lixin
Zhao Lixin, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and the Russian All-Russian Film Academy, served as the main lecturer of the Central Academy of Drama and a visiting professor at the Communication University of China. Zhao Lixin is known as the "Almighty King" among Chinese actors, and his TV drama representative works include "In the Silent Place", "The Legend of Mi Yue", "Cao Cao", "Tiansheng Long Song" and so on. In 2016, he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for his spy drama "In the Silent Place". Representative works of drama include "Marriage Landscape", "Mr. Big", "Father" and so on.
actor
Li Hongchen
Li Hongchen, Chinese mainland actor, graduated from the Department of Acting, Communication University of China. Representative works: The movie "Hello, Crazy! "The Wandering Earth", TV series "Moscow Action", drama "Pillow Man", "Northeast Past" and so on.
Yu Mengchao
Yu Mengchao is a resident theater actor at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Participated in the works: "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Tempest", "Lin Zexu", "The Return of the Wind and Snow Night", "The Merchant of Venice", "Bird", "Jane Eyre", etc., and the special invited play "Twelfth Night" of the 2017 Wuzhen Theatre Festival.
Wang Yidan
Wang Yidan graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama and the Dance Department of liaoning provincial art school. Representative works: TV series "Forensic Psychic", "The General is on the Top", "Blood Chang'an", etc., the movie "Redemption", "100 Meters Ahead, Turn Around", "What Do You Want", etc., drama "Father" and so on.
Du Gonghai
Du Gonghai is an 87-level graduate of the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama. Drama starring works: "Snowy Land", "Flower Girl", "A Cluster of Sacred Fire in the Sky", "Fifteen Moons", "Blood Colored Yellow", "Tobacco Flowers" (also translated as "Anna in the Tropics"). Film and television works: the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" as Jia Yucun, "Before Dawn" as Ouyang Bingyao, "Anti-Narcotics Elite" as Public Security Bureau Chief Zhou Tiecheng, "Jiangcheng Police" as Director Zhou, "Strange Town" as Wu Ling, "Under the Gate of Zhengyang" as Guan Yiheng, "Falling Stones out of the Water 3" as Liu Mengyang, "Princess Wencheng" as Lu Jia.
May 13
19:10
"730 on the West Line of Gulou"
Script reading "Broken Hand City"
Himalayan live room
Worth a look!
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