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莫扎特传 2016年National Theatre版 [演出] 豆瓣
所属 演出: 莫扎特传
语言: 英语 english 剧院: National Theatre 导演: Michael Longhurst
其它标题: 2016年National Theatre版 编剧: Peter Shaffer 演员: Lucian Msamati / Adam Gillen
Since the original run, Shaffer has extensively revised his play, including changes to plot details; the following is common to all revisions.

At the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame, and is convinced he used poison to assassinate Mozart. Speaking directly to the audience, he promises to explain himself. The action then flashes back to the eighteenth century, at a time when Salieri has not met Mozart in person, but has heard of him and his music. He adores Mozart's compositions, and is thrilled at the chance to meet Mozart in person, during a salon at which some of Mozart's compositions will be played. When he finally does catch sight of Mozart, however, he is deeply disappointed to find that Mozart's personality does not match the grace or charm of his compositions. When Salieri first meets him, Mozart is crawling around on his hands and knees, engaging in profane talk with his future bride Constanze Weber .

Salieri cannot reconcile Mozart's boorish behaviour with the genius that God has inexplicably bestowed upon him. Indeed, Salieri, who has been a devout Catholic all his life, cannot believe that God would choose Mozart over him for such a gift. Salieri renounces God and vows to do everything in his power to destroy Mozart as a way of getting back at his Creator.

Throughout much of the rest of the play, Salieri masquerades as Mozart's ally to his face while doing his utmost to destroy his reputation and any success his compositions may have. On more than one occasion it is only the direct intervention of the Emperor himself that allows Mozart to continue (interventions which Salieri opposes, and then is all too happy to take credit for when Mozart assumes it was he who intervened). Salieri also humiliates Mozart's wife when she comes to Salieri for aid, and smears Mozart's character with the Emperor and the court. A major theme in Amadeus is Mozart's repeated attempts to win over the aristocratic "public" with increasingly brilliant compositions, which are always frustrated either by Salieri or by the aristocracy's own inability to appreciate Mozart's genius.

The play ends with Salieri attempting suicide in a last attempt to be remembered, leaving a false confession of having murdered Mozart with arsenic . He survives, however, and his confession is disbelieved by all, leaving him to wallow once again in mediocrity.
1984 [演出] 豆瓣
7.0 (6 个评分) 类型: theater 编剧: George Orwell / 乔治·奥威尔
导演: Robert Icke / Duncan Macmillan 演员: Mark Arends / Tim Dutton / Stephen Fewell / Christopher Patrick Nolan / Matthew Spencer



April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching.
Orwell’s ideas have become our ideas; his fiction is often said to be our reality. The “definitive book of the 20th century” (The Guardian) is re-examined in a radical new staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.
以下媒体全给出五星的评价:
The Observer
The Times
Financial Times
Time Out
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The White Factory [演出] 豆瓣
The White Factory
类型: theater 编剧: Dmitry Glukhovsky
剧院: Marylebone Theatre 导演: Maxim Didenko 演员: Paul-Hector Antoine / Lucas Allermann / Olivia Bernstone / Pearl Chanda / Leo Franky



Spanning several decades, The White Factory explores the life of Yosef Kaufman, a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, haunted by his wartime experiences as he tries to build a new future in 1960’s Brooklyn.



This is the world premiere of a daring collaboration between Ukrainian, Russian and British creatives, led by writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the bestselling Metro2033 franchise, and visionary theatre director Maxim Didenko – both of whom are political exiles and vehemently outspoken critics of the war against Ukraine.



This heart-wrenching drama of love, endurance, despair and hope follows one man’s journey from the Lodz ghetto of 1940s Poland to ‘sixties America, where the possibility of a new life is tested to the limit by the remnants of his past.

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Magpie
导演: 山姆·耶茨 演员: 黛西·雷德利 / 玛蒂尔达·鲁茨
其它标题: Magpie
当本和安妮特的女儿玛蒂尔达在一部电影中与一位光彩夺目的电影明星艾丽西亚共同出演时,本立刻对艾丽西亚产生了迷恋。留在家中照顾婴儿的安妮特,越来越意识到本对艾丽西亚的痴迷,这让她的心理承受到了极限,她拼命努力维持家庭的完整。然而,在朋友证实了她最糟糕的担忧后,安妮特设计了一种方法与艾丽西亚见面,并开始编织一个复杂的网,企图抓住本并揭露他的真面目。