令人眼花繚亂的創意之作
2018絕不可錯過的現場演出
2013年度7項奧利佛獎
2015年度5項托尼獎
親身體驗奇幻舞臺設計
感受非凡少年的成長故事
“推理過程與視覺極限的非凡融合！”
——英國《泰晤士報》
“令人眼花繚亂的創意之作……一場漂亮動人的演出！”
——英國《旗幟晚報》
“一個不折不扣的成功之作。”
——英國《綜藝》
《倫敦標準晚報》、《周日快報》、《周日電訊報》
《獨立報》、《周日郵報》、《泰晤士報》
★★★★★
五星好評
劇情梗概
“是誰殺害了小狗惠靈頓？”
《深夜小狗離奇事件》源于一個非凡少年的動人自白，講述他以一種令人驚奇卻更能揭示真相的方式，來理解這個世界。
15歲的克里斯托弗擁有不太一樣的大腦——他喜歡數學，熱愛太空，熱衷于照看他的寵物白鼠，卻沒有足夠的能力解讀日常生活，害怕與陌生人接觸，被別人輕輕觸碰也會令他尖聲大叫。一天夜里，鄰居希爾斯夫人的小狗惠靈頓被神秘殺害，克里斯托弗因為抱起了它卻成了最大嫌疑犯。他以第一人稱視角在一本書中記錄了每個與狗死亡事件相關的事實，并試圖破解謀殺之謎，然而他發現了更多的秘密，把他帶上了 一段顛覆的旅程……他獨自一人登上前往倫敦的火車，他在尋找什么？在他獨自面對未曾經歷的這一切的時候，還要參加英國高等學校的入學數學考試。他，能成功嗎？
改編及獲獎經歷
2003年，英國作家、漫畫家馬克·哈登的長篇小說處女作《深夜小狗離奇事件》出版，憑借作品本身的魅力，于2004年圣誕前夜超越紅極一時的《哈利波特》，登上英國暢銷書排行榜第1名。隨后，作品陸續以35種文字在全球出版，贏得世界各地讀者和媒體的如潮好評，并榮獲英國“惠特布萊德年度圖書”、“大英圖書獎年度最佳童書”，美國“多利·格雷兒童文學獎”，日本“產經兒童出版文化賞大獎”等世界范圍內的30多項文學大獎。
2012年，《深夜小狗離奇事件》由西蒙·史蒂芬斯根據同名暢銷小說改編，由曾指導過《戰馬》的瑪麗安尼·艾略特導演。這部作品被《泰晤士報》譽為“故事講述和視覺沖擊的非凡組合”，并且獲得2013年包括最佳新創話劇在內的勞倫斯·奧利弗獎7項大獎以及包括最佳話劇在內的托尼獎5項大獎，包括最佳劇本、最佳導演及舞臺設計等，無疑是因為此劇的編劇、導演、演員、舞臺設計、燈光及音樂皆臻完美，而且故事充滿奇思妙想，觀眾不分老少，無不為劇情的奇妙布局，異想天開的影像，與劇中少年的超凡思維感動不已。
堪稱21世紀最奇幻眩目舞臺劇，《深夜小狗離奇事件》是英國國家劇院近年最叫好叫座的作品之一，于首演后引發轟動，旋即移師倫敦西區及紐約百老匯駐場演出，2017-2018年更踏上世界巡演之路，遠征遠赴歐洲、北美、澳大利亞以及亞洲。
關于英國國家劇院
英國國家劇院，是世界一流的劇院團體，一直保持著世界上最大劇院之一的地位。1963年，由著名演員勞倫斯·奧利弗擔任藝術總監的國家劇院在老維克劇院臨時落腳，很快吸引了國內諸多戲劇家的加盟，并以精湛的演出在國內外贏得了聲譽。直到1976年，才建立了位于泰晤士河南岸的固定劇院，沿用至今的是三個固定劇場，繁榮的戲劇演出也帶動了泰晤士河南岸藝術的發展。
他們制作了很多具有娛樂性、挑戰性和啟發性的世界級戲劇，他們的戲為所有人制作。 在2016至2017年就制作了26部新戲，演出2585場。英國國家劇院屢獲殊榮的劇目吸引了180萬觀眾，其中40萬是NT Live的觀眾。
他們制作的宗旨是在最大限度地延長倫敦西區、整個英國乃至全世界新作品的生命力。近期作品包括《戰馬》、《海達·高布樂》、《深夜小狗離奇事件》、《天使在美國》 、《人物》、《地點與事物》以及《簡·愛》。
英國國家劇院《深夜小狗離奇事件》將是繼中文版《戰馬》后中英文化交流又一次里程碑，已榮幸入選2018年第十八屆“相約北京”藝術節。“相約北京”藝術節是由中華人民共和國文化部、北京市人民政府、國家廣播電影電視總局主辦，中國對外文化集團公司、北京市文化局承辦的一項集廣泛性和多樣性為一體的國家級大型綜合國際藝術節。此次英國國家劇院來京除了帶來《深夜小狗離奇事件》演出外，還將依托藝術節及北京天橋藝術中心舉行一系列的文化交流活動。讓我們與英國國家劇院一起“相約北京”！期待更多驚喜！
主辦單位：
中華人民共和國文化部
國家新聞出版廣電總局
北京市人民政府
承辦單位：
中國對外文化集團公司
北京市文化局
主辦方：
北京天橋藝術中心
注意事項：
*演出中將出現較強烈的音響、強光及視頻（含閃光）效果
*建議12歲或以上觀眾欣賞
*遲到觀眾會被要求延遲入場，大約需要在場外等候約15分鐘。在此時間之后到達的觀眾需要等待中場休息后進場。
THE NATIONAL THEATRE’S OLIVIER AND TONY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCTION OF
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG
IN THE NIGHT-TIME
WILL BE PERFORMED AT
Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center
FROM May 24 to May 27, 2018
A NEW PLAY BY SIMON STEPHENS
ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL BY MARK HADDON
DIRECTED BY MARIANNE ELLIOTT
The National Theatre’s Olivier and Tony Award®-winning production of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, will come to Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center on May 24 to May 27 2018. This is the first time the production will play in Beijing.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME is adapted by Olivier Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s best-selling book, and directed by Tony Award winner Marianne Elliott (War Horse, Curious Incident).
Director Marianne Elliott said: ‘I’m absolutely thrilled that our production of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME is touring to Beijing and I look forward to sharing with audiences our staging of Mark Haddon’s beautiful story of love, family and bravery in the most unlikely of environments.’
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME transferred to London’s West End, following a sold-out run at the National Theatre’s Cottesloe theatre in September 2012.It is the recipient of a record-breaking seven 2013 Olivier Awards, including Best New Play, Best Director, Best Design, Best Lighting Design and Best Sound Design – more Olivier’s than any other play in the history of London’s West End.
CURIOUS INCIDENT, the longest-running play on Broadway in over a decade, premiered at the Barrymore Theatre in September 2014, winning five Tony Awards® including Best Play, six Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Play, five Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding New Broadway Play and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off Broadway Play. CURIOUS INCIDENT was named among the top 10 productions of 2014 by over 20 leading media outlets, including The New York Times, Associated Press, New York Post, Time Out New York, Playbill and Time Magazine.
The show tells the story of Christopher John Francis Boone, who is fifteen years old. He stands besides Mrs Shears’ dead dog, which has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in a book he is writing to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain, and is exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and distrusts strangers. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
The production is designed by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Bunny Christie, Tony Award-winning lighting designer Paule Constable and Tony Award-winning video designer Finn Ross. Movement is by Scott Graham and Olivier Award-winning Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly, music by Adrian Sutton (who also composed music for War Horse) and sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph.
Mark Haddon’s novel THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME was published in 2003 and was the winner of more than 17 literary awards, including prizes in the US, Japan, Holland and Italy, as well as the prestigious Whitbread Book of the Year Award in the UK in 2004. The novel has been translated into 44 languages and sold more than 5.5 million copies world-wide.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’s international tour visits the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, with further international dates to be announced. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time recently completed a North American tour which took in 30 cities across the USA, and a UK and Ireland tour which took in 25 towns and cities.
Marianne Elliott was an Associate Director of the National Theatre for 10 years, and her current play for the company, a new production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America appears at the NT until August 2017. Her other work includes War Horse (co-directed with Tom Morris), The Light Princess, Port, Season’s Greetings, All’s Well that Ends Well, Harper Regan, Saint Joan (Olivier Award for Best Revival, South Bank Show Award for Theatre), and Pillars of the Community (Evening Standard Award for Best Director). Marianne was consultant director on The Elephantom for the National Theatre and directed Sweet Bird of Youth for the Old Vic with Kim Cattrall. Marianne recently formed a new company with producer Chris Harper - Elliott Harper Productions.
Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador in 2005, and his last novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. His latest book is The Pier Falls, a collection of stories. He lives in Oxford.
Simon Stephens’ plays for the National Theatre include: a new translation of The Threepenny Opera, Port (originally produced at the Royal Exchange and directed by Marianne Elliott) at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre , Harper Regan (which was produced at Canadian Stage) and On the Shore of the Wide World (co-production with Royal Exchange, Manchester: Olivier Award for Best New Play). His many other plays include Carmen Disruption, Heisenberg, Birdland, Blindsided, Three Kingdoms, Wastwater, Punk Rock, Seawall, Pornography, Country Music, Christmas and Herons; A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (co-written with Robert Holman and David Eldridge); an adaptation of Jon Fosse’s I Am the Wind and Motortown. His version of A Doll’s House for the Young Vic transferred to the West End and then New York in 2014. Simon is an Associate at the Lyric, Hammersmith and the Royal Court Theatre. Simon’s book – Simon Stephens, A working Diary was published in 2016.
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· About the National Theatre of Great Britain
At the National Theatre, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring, and we make it for everyone. In 2016-2017, the NT staged 26 productions and gave 2,585 performances at our home on the South Bank. The NT’s award-winning programme had a UK paying audience of 1.8 million, 400,000 of which were NT Live audiences.
The work the National Theatre produces appeals to the widest possible audiences with new plays, musicals, re-imagined classics and new work for young audiences. The NT’s work is seen in the West End, on tour throughout the UK and internationally (including on Broadway), and in collaborations and co-productions with partners across the country. Through NT Live, we broadcast some of the best of British theatre to over 2,000 venues in 60 countries around the world.
National Theatre Productions aims to maximise opportunities to extend the life of NT productions without subsidy in London’s West End, throughout the UK and around the world. Current and recent productions include War Horse, Hedda Gabler, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Angels in America, People, Places & Things and Jane Eyre.
* SPECIAL NOTES
This production includes loud sound effects, high intensity lighting and video effects (including strobe lighting)
Recommended for ages 12 and above
Late comers will be asked to wait until a scene called ‘The Street’ before being allowed into the auditorium. This is approximately 15mins into act I. Audience arriving after this time will be required to wait until the interval.
Photos of 2017 International touring cast by Brinkhoff Mogenburg.
