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| Post subject: Drama：'Chekhov's Shorts' from Canada |
Chekhov's Shorts
Performed in English with Chinese Subtitles
Date: 7:30p.m., Sep.29-Oct.6 (Oct.1 off)
Venue: Drama Salon, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre (288, Anfu Rd.)
Performing: Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Canada
Price: RMB120 (RMB40 for student only on Sep.30 & Oct.2)
Booking Hotline: 64334546
Chekhov's Shorts finished its world premiere in Canada in 1999 and won three Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Outstanding Actor, Outstanding Director, and Outstanding Production) the next year. During these four years, Theatre Smith-Gilmour carries this show touring around North America and Europe.
This year, in 2004, it begins its Asia Tour. Shanghai is their second stop in China.
Chekhov's short is a journey which begins at the Happy-Trach-Tarrach Station. As the train departs for the station known as Run-For-Your-Life, a wonderful array of characters and stories are revealed, hidden within each other like Russian nesting dolls. On board, twisted little Belikov from Man in a Shell looks as though he's been pulled out of his lodgings by pincers. Kashtanka, the lost dog, meets the circus master who teaches her how to perform the Egyptian Pyramid. Vanka, the 13-year-old maid from Sleepyhead, is so tired her head seems to have shrunk to the size of a pin and the baby won't stop crying. The coffin maker in Rothchild's Fiddle realizes that when he dies his fiddle will be orphaned. The more he thinks of a life full of loss and waste, the more sadly sings his violin. Through these characters, Russia's most beloved writer Anton Chekhov illustrates the poetry of the human spirit struggling with the ever-changing nature of life, exposing the tenderness and fragility of what it is to be human. Recently named Best Small Theatre company by NOW Magazine readers, Theatre Smith-Gilmour have been creating work for over 20 years, receiving numerous awards and nominations for their innovative physical, clown and image theatre productions. Smith-Gilmour have said of their Chekhov work: “When we began reading the short stories of Anton Chekhov we were deeply touched; we saw in the simplicity and humanity of his writing an opportunity to explore the essential, to listen, see and feel with the heart and to use the stories to build a real connection between audience and actors. Each story has a hidden story. We see in the hidden story a point of union between us as artists and the imagination of the audience.” Chekhov’s shorts sold out for a total of 15 weeks at Factory Theatre in 1999, garnered three Dora Awards, and played in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Dartmouth before going on to a sold-out run in Hong Kong and a three week run in Montreal, where it won the Montreal English Theatre Critics Award for Best Ensemble. In 2004-05, along with the tour to Asia, the show will appear in an 11-city tour of the province of Ontario, Canada |
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