No-dialogue play a parable
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CHINESE original physical theater “Dog’s Face” is being staged at the Shanghai Drama Arts Center (SDAC) to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. It’s the closing program of the season for “Waves Behind” (Hou-Lang), an experimental drama campaign launched by the Arts Center in March 2013, featuring plenty of theater works—both Western classic and local original.
Created by well-known Shanghai playwright Yu Rongjun, also the current general manager of the Arts Center, the black humor play is the first physical theater (no dialogue) in the mainland. Themed on the dark side of human beings, the show presents young people’s struggle to survive amid fierce competition in the job market, where jungle law rules.
The 90-minute show tells stories with various “physical dialogues” through parables: boss is compared to hunter; employees are compared to dogs; rabbit shows a figurative use of “money.” With costumes ranging from dog suits to rabbits to formal suits, the show makes a mockery of the lives of white-collar workers in metropolitan cities.
Debuted in Shanghai in 2004, “Dog’s Face” became one of the popular experimental dramas of the year and won the “Committee’s Most Outstanding Social Achievement Award” at the 17th Cairo International Experimental Drama Festival in Egypt. Since then the show has toured around the world.
In this version at Arts Center’s stage, young local director Xie Shuai redirects the show, played by four talented actors and actresses from the Arts Center—Liu Xuanrui, Wang Haiying, You Mei and Zhao Yingying.
Date: Through June 21 (except Mondays), 7:30pm; June 22, 2pm
Tickets: 50 yuan, 100 yuan (VIP)
Tel: 6473-0123, 6473-4567
Venue: Shanghai Drama Arts Center
Address: 288 Anfu Rd
瀹夌璺288鍙
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