故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

Groundhog Day is the story of Phil Connors (Andy Karl), a cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman who is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in the isolated small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, when he finds himself caught in a time loop, forced to repeat the same day again and again…and again. As each day plays out exactly the same as before Phil becomes increasingly despondent, but is there a lesson to be learnt through his experiences, will he ever unlock the secret and break the cycle?

故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

Groundhog Day is the story of Phil Connors (Andy Karl), a cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman who is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in the isolated small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, when he finds himself caught in a time loop, forced to repeat the same day again and again…and again. As each day plays out exactly the same as before Phil becomes increasingly despondent, but is there a lesson to be learnt through his experiences, will he ever unlock the secret and break the cycle?

故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

故事讲述了4岁时的玛蒂尔达就已经把家里的书读完了，但基本上都是杂志，因为她那个经商的爸爸和嗜赌的妈妈根本不读书，所以也想不到为异常聪明的女儿买书读。还是玛蒂尔达自己提出上学的要求，父母才把她送进康琴小学。校长特拉奇布尔小姐投铅球出身，哪个学生不听话，她就把孩子像铅球一样投出墙外。全校师生都生活在她的阴影之下，玛蒂尔达也不例外。虽然不如意事十之八九，但一年级老师汉妮小姐是小女孩心头的一缕阳光……

Groundhog Day is the story of Phil Connors (Andy Karl), a cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman who is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in the isolated small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, when he finds himself caught in a time loop, forced to repeat the same day again and again…and again. As each day plays out exactly the same as before Phil becomes increasingly despondent, but is there a lesson to be learnt through his experiences, will he ever unlock the secret and break the cycle?

Groundhog Day is the story of Phil Connors (Andy Karl), a cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman who is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in the isolated small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, when he finds himself caught in a time loop, forced to repeat the same day again and again…and again. As each day plays out exactly the same as before Phil becomes increasingly despondent, but is there a lesson to be learnt through his experiences, will he ever unlock the secret and break the cycle?

她是一个在读女博士，他是一个自由音乐人。他们看纪录片看艺术电影，他们分类垃圾保护环境，他们购买公平贸易产品抵制连锁。他们受过高等教育，以社会传播的各种正向准则，不断向彼此确认这样的自己是否算是“好人”。

一场在宜家开启的关于“孩子”的谈话炸出了这对年轻情侣潜藏的焦虑。

生个孩子是否只是顺从了人类七千五百代人世代相传的生存机制？这个星球已经承载着70亿人，资源日益匮瘠，养个孩子等于向这个世界释放了一万吨二氧化碳，堪比埃菲尔铁塔的重量比三十六年日日飞行往返北京上海留下的碳足迹还要多。生一个孩子是否算是雪上加霜？

学业结束后的事业是否真的能有美好的前景？是否只有稳定的职业才能养育好一个孩子？女人生育的痛苦男人无法感同身受，一个孩子的加入是否会给日后的生活带来种种限制？个人的未来、世界的未来对于他们来说都是未知，在重重种种的担忧之下他们无法为当下做出任何决定。

在英国作家麦克米伦（Duncan Macmillan）的戏剧作品《呼吸》中，时间和空间在两个角色不间断的对话中飞速地转换着，这种近乎歇斯底里的飞转节奏让观者甚至无法跟上场景转换的逻辑，然而这也正如现实的残酷，你还来不及为下一步的行动作出思考，未来就以你所担心的图景在眼前变成了过去。

她是一个在读女博士，他是一个自由音乐人。他们看纪录片看艺术电影，他们分类垃圾保护环境，他们购买公平贸易产品抵制连锁。他们受过高等教育，以社会传播的各种正向准则，不断向彼此确认这样的自己是否算是“好人”。

一场在宜家开启的关于“孩子”的谈话炸出了这对年轻情侣潜藏的焦虑。

生个孩子是否只是顺从了人类七千五百代人世代相传的生存机制？这个星球已经承载着70亿人，资源日益匮瘠，养个孩子等于向这个世界释放了一万吨二氧化碳，堪比埃菲尔铁塔的重量比三十六年日日飞行往返北京上海留下的碳足迹还要多。生一个孩子是否算是雪上加霜？

学业结束后的事业是否真的能有美好的前景？是否只有稳定的职业才能养育好一个孩子？女人生育的痛苦男人无法感同身受，一个孩子的加入是否会给日后的生活带来种种限制？个人的未来、世界的未来对于他们来说都是未知，在重重种种的担忧之下他们无法为当下做出任何决定。

在英国作家麦克米伦（Duncan Macmillan）的戏剧作品《呼吸》中，时间和空间在两个角色不间断的对话中飞速地转换着，这种近乎歇斯底里的飞转节奏让观者甚至无法跟上场景转换的逻辑，然而这也正如现实的残酷，你还来不及为下一步的行动作出思考，未来就以你所担心的图景在眼前变成了过去。

Act I

A night in winter

[Scene 1]

Aston has invited Davies, a homeless man, into his apartment after rescuing him from a bar fight (7–9). Davies comments on the apartment and criticizes the fact that it is cluttered and badly kept. Aston attempts to find a pair of shoes for Davies but Davies rejects all the offers. Once he turns down a pair that doesn’t fit well enough and another that has the wrong colour laces. Early on, Davies reveals to Aston that his real name is not "Bernard Jenkins", his "assumed name", but really "Mac Davies" (19–20, 25). He claims that his papers validating this fact are in Sidcup and that he must and will return there to retrieve them just as soon as he has a good pair of shoes. Aston and Davies discuss where he will sleep and the problem of the "bucket" attached to the ceiling to catch dripping rain water from the leaky roof (20–21) and Davies "gets into bed" while "ASTON sits, poking his [electrical] plug (21).

[Scene 2]
The LIGHTS FADE OUT. Darkness.

LIGHTS UP. Morning. (21) As Aston dresses for the day, Davies awakes with a start, and Aston informs Davies that he was kept up all night by Davies muttering in his sleep. Davies denies that he made any noise and blames the racket on the neighbors, revealing his fear of foreigners: "I tell you what, maybe it were them Blacks" (23). Aston informs Davies that he is going out but invites him to stay if he likes, indicating that he trusts him (23–24), something unexpected by Davies; for, as soon as Aston does leave the room (27), Davies begins rummaging through Aston's "stuff" (27–28) but he is interrupted when Mick, Aston’s brother, unexpectedly arrives, "moves upstage, silently," "slides across the room" and then suddenly "seizes Davies' "arm and forces it up his back," in response to which "DAVIES screams," and they engage in a minutely-choreographed struggle, which Mick wins (28–29), ending Act One with the "Curtain" line, "What's the game?" (29).
Act II

[Scene 1]
A few seconds later

Mick demands to know Davies' name, which the latter gives as "Jenkins" (30), interrogates him about how well he slept the night before (30), wonders whether or not Davies is actually "a foreigner"—to which Davies retorts that he "was" indeed (in Mick's phrase) "Born and bred in the British Isles" (33)—going on to accuse Davies of being "an old robber […] an old skate" who is "stinking the place out" (35), and spinning a verbal web full of banking jargon designed to confuse Davies, while stating, hyperbolically, that his brother Aston is "a number one decorator" (36), either an outright lie or self-deceptive wishful thinking on his part. Just as Mick reaches the climactic line of his diatribe geared to put the old tramp off balance—"Who do you bank with?" (36), Aston enters with a "bag" ostensibly for Davies, and the brothers debate how to fix the leaking roof and Davies interrupts to inject the more practical question: "What do you do . . . when that bucket's full?" (37) and Aston simply says, "Empty it" (37). The three battle over the "bag" that Aston has brought Davies, one of the most comic and often-cited Beckettian routines in the play (38–39). After Mick leaves, and Davies recognises him to be "a real joker, that lad" (40), they discuss Mick's work in "the building trade" and Davies ultimately discloses that the bag they have fought over and that he was so determined to hold on to "ain't my bag" at all (41). Aston offers Davies the job of Caretaker, (42–43), leading to Davies' various assorted animadversions about the dangers that he faces for "going under an assumed name" and possibly being found out by anyone who might "ring the bell called Caretaker" (44).

[Scene 2]

THE LIGHTS FADE TO BLACKOUT.
THEN UP TO DIM LIGHT THROUGH THE WINDOW.
A door bangs.
Sound of a key in the door of the room.
DAVIES enters, closes the door, and tries the light switch, on, off, on, off.

It appears to Davies that "the damn light's gone now," but, it becomes clear that Mick has sneaked back into the room in the dark and removed the bulb; he starts up "the electrolux" and scares Davies almost witless before claiming "I was just doing some spring cleaning" and returning the bulb to its socket (45). After a discussion with Davies about the place being his "responsibility" and his ambitions to fix it up, Mick also offers Davies the job of "caretaker" (46–50), but pushes his luck with Mick when he observes negative things about Aston, like the idea that he "doesn't like work" or is "a bit of a funny bloke" for "Not liking work" (Davies' camouflage of what he really is referring to), leading Mick to observe that Davies is "getting hypocritical" and "too glib" (50), and they turn to the absurd details of "a small financial agreement" relating to Davies' possibly doing "a bit of caretaking" or "looking after the place" for Mick (51), and then back to the inevitable call for "references" and the perpetually-necessary trip to Sidcup to get Davies' identity "papers" (51–52).

[Scene 3]
Morning

Davies wakes up and complains to Aston about how badly he slept. He blames various aspects of the apartment's set up. Aston suggests adjustments but Davies proves to be callous and inflexible. Aston tells the story of how he was checked into a mental hospital and given electric shock therapy, but when he tried to escape from the hospital he was shocked while standing, leaving him with permanent brain damage; he ends by saying, "I've often thought of going back and trying to find the man who did that to me. But I want to do something first. I want to build that shed out in the garden" (54–57). Critics regard Aston's monologue, the longest of the play, as the "climax" of the plot.[3] In dramaturgical terms, what follows is part of the plot's "falling action".
Act III

[Scene 1]
Two weeks later [… ]Afternoon.

Davies and Mick discuss the apartment. Mick relates "(ruminatively)" in great detail what he would do to redecorate it (60). When asked who "would live there," Mick's response "My brother and me" leads Davies to complain about Aston's inability to be social and just about every other aspect of Aston's behaviour (61–63). Though initially invited to be a "caretaker," first by Aston and then by Mick, he begins to ingratiate himself with Mick, who acts as if he were an unwitting accomplice in Davies' eventual conspiracy to take over and fix up the apartment without Aston's involvement (64) an outright betrayal of the brother who actually took him in and attempted to find his "belongings"; but just then Aston enters and gives Davies yet another pair of shoes which he grudgingly accepts, speaking of "going down to Sidcup" in order "to get" his "papers" again (65–66).

[Scene 2]
That night

Davies brings up his plan when talking to Aston, whom he insults by throwing back in his face the details of his treatment in the mental institution (66–67), leading Aston, in a vast understatement, to respond: "I . . . I think it's about time you found somewhere else. I don't think we're hitting it off" (68). When finally threatened by Davies pointing a knife at him, Aston tells Davies to leave: "Get your stuff" (69). Davies, outraged, claims that Mick will take his side and kick Aston out instead and leaves in a fury, concluding (mistakenly): "Now I know who I can trust" (69).

[Scene 3]
Later

Davies reenters with Mick explaining the fight that occurred earlier and complaining still more bitterly about Mick's brother, Aston (70–71). Eventually, Mick takes Aston's side, beginning with the observation "You get a bit out of your depth sometimes, don't you?" (71). Mick forces Davies to disclose that his "real name" is Davies and his "assumed name" is "Jenkins" and, after Davies calls Aston "nutty", Mick appears to take offense at what he terms Davies' "impertinent thing to say," concludes, "I'm compelled to pay you off for your caretaking work. Here's half a dollar," and stresses his need to turn back to his own "business" affairs (74). When Aston comes back into the apartment, the brothers face each other," "They look at each other. Both are smiling, faintly" (75). Using the excuse of having returned for his "pipe" (given to him earlier through the generosity of Aston), Davies turns to beg Aston to let him stay (75–77). But Aston rebuffs each of Davies' rationalisations of his past complaints (75–76). The play ends with a "Long silence" as Aston, who "remains still, his back to him [Davies], at the window, apparently unrelenting as he gazes at his garden and makes no response at all to Davies' futile plea, which is sprinkled with many dots (". . .") of elliptical hesitations (77–78).

Boeing-Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti. The English language adaptation, translated by Beverley Cross, was first staged in London at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in 1965, running for a total of seven years.In 1991, the play was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most performed French play throughout the world.

Boeing-Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti. The English language adaptation, translated by Beverley Cross, was first staged in London at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in 1965, running for a total of seven years.In 1991, the play was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most performed French play throughout the world.

Academy Award® winning actor Jim Broadbent makes his long-awaited return to the stage to play Scrooge in a new comic re-telling of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ classic story of greed, grief, ghoulish ghosts and eleventh hour redemption. Broadbent will be joined by Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions, Hamlet Young Vic), Amelia Bullmore (The Norman Conquests Old Vic, Scott & Bailey), Keir Charles (The White Devil RSC, Mydidae Soho Theatre) and Samantha Spiro (Hello Dolly Open Air Theatre, Bad Education). Puppeteers Jack Parker and Kim Scopes complete the ensemble.
From Scrooge and Tiny Tim to Bob Cratchit and Mr. Fezziwig, Patrick Barlow’s imaginative adaptation of A Christmas Carol will bring some of Dickens’ most memorable characters to life.
Coming together to create this innovative new work are some of our most loved and mischievous maverick theatre-makers. The play is written by the Olivier Award-winning and Tony nominated Patrick Barlow (The 39 Steps) with whom Jim Broadbent performed for many years in Barlow’s cult comedy troupe The National Theatre of Brent. A Christmas Carol is directed by Olivier Award-winning Phelim McDermott, Artistic Director of Improbable, one of Britain’s most inventive theatre companies, and who was responsible for the iconic 1998 production of Shockheaded Peter. McDermott also directed Theatre of Blood at the National Theatre in which Broadbent last appeared on stage.
Joining them is the critically-acclaimed designer Tom Pye (The Testament of Mary, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Low Road) and Toby Sedgwick (War Horse, The 39 Steps) as Director of Movement. Peter Mumford will design the lighting and Gareth Fry will design sound.

Academy Award® winning actor Jim Broadbent makes his long-awaited return to the stage to play Scrooge in a new comic re-telling of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ classic story of greed, grief, ghoulish ghosts and eleventh hour redemption. Broadbent will be joined by Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions, Hamlet Young Vic), Amelia Bullmore (The Norman Conquests Old Vic, Scott & Bailey), Keir Charles (The White Devil RSC, Mydidae Soho Theatre) and Samantha Spiro (Hello Dolly Open Air Theatre, Bad Education). Puppeteers Jack Parker and Kim Scopes complete the ensemble.
From Scrooge and Tiny Tim to Bob Cratchit and Mr. Fezziwig, Patrick Barlow’s imaginative adaptation of A Christmas Carol will bring some of Dickens’ most memorable characters to life.
Coming together to create this innovative new work are some of our most loved and mischievous maverick theatre-makers. The play is written by the Olivier Award-winning and Tony nominated Patrick Barlow (The 39 Steps) with whom Jim Broadbent performed for many years in Barlow’s cult comedy troupe The National Theatre of Brent. A Christmas Carol is directed by Olivier Award-winning Phelim McDermott, Artistic Director of Improbable, one of Britain’s most inventive theatre companies, and who was responsible for the iconic 1998 production of Shockheaded Peter. McDermott also directed Theatre of Blood at the National Theatre in which Broadbent last appeared on stage.
Joining them is the critically-acclaimed designer Tom Pye (The Testament of Mary, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Low Road) and Toby Sedgwick (War Horse, The 39 Steps) as Director of Movement. Peter Mumford will design the lighting and Gareth Fry will design sound.