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Punch [Performance] Douban
genre: theater playwright: James Graham
theater: Young Vic director: Adam Penford actor: Alec Boaden / Julie Hesmondhalgh



Experience Punch, the latest masterpiece from Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham (Best of Enemies, Dear England, This House), which brings Jacob Dunne’s powerful true-life account to the stage. This ★★★★★ production, following a sold-out run in Nottingham, is igniting discussions everywhere, from theatres and courthouses to the House of Commons.



Jacob Dunne, a teenager from Nottingham, spends his Saturday nights seeking thrills with his friends. One fateful evening, an impulsive punch leads to fatal consequences. After serving prison time, Jacob finds himself lost and directionless. Searching for answers, Joan and David – the parents of his victim James – ask to meet, sparking a profound transformation in Jacob’s life.

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022) [Movie] Douban
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
other title: 圣诞颂歌:鬼故事
Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Dracula, Doctor Who) stars as Jacob Marley in his own 'Irresistibly theatrical' (The Telegraph) retelling of Dickens' classic winter ghost story, A Christmas Carol, alongside Nicholas Farrell (Chariots of Fire, The Crown, The Iron Lady) as Scrooge. This powerful tale of life, love, loss and redemption is as relevant today as when it was first published 179 years ago. A Nottingham Playhouse production,it was filmed live for cinemas during the 2021 stage run at London's sumptuous Alexandra Palace Theatre and filled with Dickensian, spine-tingling special effects, prepare to be frightened and delighted in equal measure as you enter the supernatural Victorian world of A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story on the big screen. It's a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Nicholas Farrell) has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley (Mark Gatiss). Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn't too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate, but first he'll have to face three more eerie encounters...
The Madness of George III [Performance] Douban
The Madness of George III
genre: theater playwright: Alan Bennett
other title: 疯王:乔治三世 / 疯狂的乔治王 director: Nicholas Hytner / Adam Penford actor: Nigel Hawthorne / Janet Dale / Michael Fitzgerald / Mark Gatiss / Adrian Scarborough



1786年,乔治三世大权在握,但逐渐开始发作的精神失常也导致他的性行变得越来越古怪,在一次精神崩溃后,诡计多端的威尔士亲王和野心勃勃的政客伺机而动,要借此逼迫乔治三世逊位,而国王迟迟未愈的病情更加剧了剑拔弩张的局面……阿兰·本奈特最拿手的机锋四起的对白,为这部历史剧染上了黑色幽默意味。
The Madness of George III is a 1991 play by Alan Bennett. It is a fictionalised biographical study of the latter half of the reign of George III of the United Kingdom, his battle with mental illness and the inability of his court to handle his condition. It was adapted for film in 1994 as The Madness of King George.

A Small Family Business [Performance] Douban
家族企业
genre: theater playwright: Alan Ayckbourn
other title: 家族企业 / 家族事业 director: Martin Jarvis / Adam Penford actor: Alfred Molina / Adam Godley / Rosalind Ayres / Joanne Whalley / Kenneth Danziger



A Small Family Business is a play by Alan Ayckbourn, based around the business of the title and dealing with the Thatcherism of the time. It premiered at the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre on 20 May 1987, where it won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for that year. Its Broadway premiere occurred on 27 April 1992.

致埃文·汉森 Dear Evan Hansen [Performance] Douban
8.5 (51 ratings) genre: Musical playwright: Steven Levenson
director: Michael Greif / 박소영 actor: Ben Platt / Rachel Bay Jones / Will Roland / Jennifer Laura Thompson / Laura Dreyfuss



All his life Evan Hansen has felt invisible. To his peers, to the girl he loves, sometimes even to his own mother. But that was before he wrote the letter - that led to the incident- that started the lie - that ignited a movement - that inspired a community - and changed Evan's status from the ultimate outsider into the somebody everyone wants to know. But how long can Evan keep his secret? And at what price?

A tribute to the outsider in us all, Dear Evan Hansen is about someone you know, maybe even someone you are, but more than anything, it's about discovering the person we all long to be - ourselves.