AGA-BOOM
Date: March 21-25 - 7:30 pm/2 pm
Venue: Shanghai PG Theater
Created by veteran of Cirque Du Soleil Dimitri Bogatirev, AGA-BOOM was nominated for the Ovation Award, in the category of best touring show, along with The Producers, as well as The Luna del Auditorio Award in the category of Alternative Productions, along with Blue Man group and Apocalyptica. Rooted in the unique European theatrical style and universal language of clowning, Aga-Boom cuts through the barriers of language and culture with the art of slapstick, the humor of physical comedy and the delighted excitement of childhood. Aga-Boom is an interactive mayhem that carries audiences to the other side of the funhouse mirror, with outrageous zaniness and unrestrained laughter. This explosion of pure family fun is high energy, and nothing you have ever seen before.
Shanghai Opera House: Carmen
Date: March 24-25 - 7:15 pm
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater
The Carmen is coproduced by the Shanghai Opera House, Opera Hong Kong and Slovene National Theater, with Philippe Arlaud as the stage director, set and lighting designer. It has been performed many times at various major theaters in China and was presented at the Shanghai Grand Theater in July 2016 as the closing performance of Shanghai Opera House's 2015/2016 Performance Season. The SOH's production of Carmen had won great acclaims in China and each performance put up for public sale was immediately snapped up. Don Jose, a naive soldier, is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. Jose abandons his childhood sweetheart Micaela and is arrested for dereliction of his military duties. After Jose is released from two month's detention, he has no choice but to join Carmen and smugglers. Yet it turns out that Jose loses Carmen's love to the glamorous toreador Escamillo. Intolerant of watching his much-beloved woman cheering for the triumph of the toreador, Jose stabs Carmen in a jealous rage.
The Key Theater: When All Was Green
Date: March 17-April1 - 10 am/3 pm
Venue: Shenzhen Nanshan Culture Center
Through old books, recycled bindings and yellowing pages a story is told about a boy and a tree, about childhood and adolescence, about fields that are lost between gray concrete and about one green bud of hope. The Key Theater was established in 1998, a collaboration between writer Dikla Katz and actor Avi Zlicha - graduates of Tel-Aviv University from the Film and TV and Theater departments. As a theater for young audiences that travels in Israel and abroad, they seek to reach audiences from different cultures and backgrounds and strive to create performances which will be artistic as well as thought-provoking. They seek to encourage curiosity and imagination and believe that by creating nonrealistic children's theater we can make a basis for acquaintance and an understating of the place we live in.
