| Drama: Hysteria
Time&Date：19:30:00 21-22/11/2008
Venue：Dongcheng Library Theatre
Price(RMB)：60;150;200VIP
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nspector Sands Theatre will bring the widely-acclaimed comedy Hysteria to Beijing. This irreverent play, inspired by a lesser-known T.S. Eliot poem, was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe and will have you laughing until the tears roll.
English Dialogues, Chinese Subtitles
Duration: 60 mins (no intermission)
Inspector Sands Theatre, Stamping Ground Theatre (UK) Presents
Production Team
Art Director: Jonathan Young, Joseph Alford
Set design: Yukiko Tsukamoto
Lighting design: Katharine Williams
Sound design: Carolyn Downing, Adrienne Quartley
Costume design: Suncana Dulic
Company Stage Managers: Elena Pena, Sarah Kmack
Publicity design: Paddy Molloy
Photography by Joseph Alford
Synopsis:
The world is ending. And it's happening at table 9...
A man and a woman are on the most awkward dinner date of their lives. He is an academic whose research into modern day neuroses is threatening his sanity; she is an events manager who's terrified of missing the party. Caught in the middle is their mortified waiter, haunted by visions of global catastrophe.
Bursting with irreverent humour and vivid physicality, Hysteria draws its audience into an arresting world where the main course is a fight for survival and a banana can move you to tears.
Inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name, Hysteria is a play about panic, the apocalypse and table manners.
Reviews
"Beautifully observed... Wonderfully witty... I laughed until I cried"
——The Guardian
"this deft three-hander boasts the physical and verbal wit of a theatrical precision instrument… Hysteria is a rib and mind-tickling delight" ——The Times
"even as you howl with laughter, you can't help but feel the edge of genuine anguish that underlies the comedy cantrips" ——The Herald
“This is a remarkable show. The dialogue is witty, intelligent and the comedic timing perfect. The perversity of the situation is perfectly exploited. A superb production, a Fringe must.”
—— Edinburgh Guide
“A funny, innovative and at times disturbing exploration of how humans hang on to their sanity.” ——The Financial Times
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