Original title: Capital Cinema’s New Year drama season opens (theme)
“The Nutcracker” and other stage performance versions will be screened in high definition (subtitle)
Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
This week, the Capital Cinema’s New Year’s drama season officially begins. The Royal Theater’s live stage productions of “The Nutcracker,” “Coriolanus,” “King Lear,” “Life of Pi” and “The Witches of Salem” will HD screening. Since its launch in October, the Capital Cinema Theater Season has provided audiences with cultural appreciation content from multiple perspectives with high-quality play content, careful theme planning, and high-format projection technology.
On December 18, 1892, the classical ballet “The Nutcracker” created by the famous composer Tchaikovsky premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Since then, the ballet “The Nutcracker” has become a competition for rehearsals by ballet companies around the world. A classic play to welcome the New Year with timeless melodies. “The Nutcracker” is known as the most beautiful ballet worth collecting and a treasure in the history of world music. The Nutcracker shown this time is choreographed by five-time Olivier Award winner Matthew Byrne. Matthew Byrne is known as the most popular contemporary British choreographer of “realism and classic fairy tales”. It is well received by audiences from all over the world.
British actor Tom Hiddleston plays Caius Marchius Coriolanus, the hero of the Roman Republic in Shakespeare’s famous play “Coriolanus”. Coriolanus lived and died for the Roman Republic and was of noble character. In 2013, Tom Hiddleston portrayed the historical hero Coriolanus on the theater stage and won the London Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Actor. Tom Hiddleston graduated from Cambridge University and then entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to study acting. In 2016, he won the Best Actor Award at the London Evening Standard Drama Awards. “Loki” portrayed by Tom Hiddleston is rated as one of the greatest images in the history of world cinema.
Shakespeare’s legendary work “King Lear” stars the famous British actor Ian McKellen. Ian McKellen graduated from Cambridge University. The King Lear he plays is objective, calm, and exudes a strong sense of the times. He is the legendary Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes who lives in 221B Baker Street, and Magneto in “X-Men”. He started on stage at the age of 13, playing the role of Malvario in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”. Until 1973, he won the most prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in the theater industry and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Gradually became an actor with an important position in the international theater and film circles. During his acting career, he starred in “King Lear” on stage many times, and in 1973 he won the Edinburgh Theater Festival Outstanding Performance Award for his role in King Lear.
“Life of Pi” is directed by Max Webster and adapted by Lolita Chakrabarty. Giant puppets were created by Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes, who created War Horse, and the stage design cleverly used traditional theater stage techniques of the actors themselves, stage turntables and multi-functional wooden sets to entertain the audience. Being there is like following an adventure yourself.
This drama season features a special screening of the stage play produced by the Vakhtangov Theater and adapted from Pushkin’s poetic novel “Eugene Onegin”, the “Father of Russian Literature”. “Eugene Onegin” follows the language of the original work and brings poetry and romance to the extreme.
