Suspense Drama Mindgame

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About

The representative theatrical work of renowned British detective novelist and playwright Anthony Horowitz premiered in 1999 and was staged in London’s West End in 2000.

Classic suspense drama Mindgame (Chinese Version)

Character List
Dr. Alex Farquhar: LI Zonghan
Mark Styler: LIU Xuanrui
Nurse Paisley: SHAO Wenyi

Creatives and Cast
Playwright: Anthony Horowitz
Director: LU Yisha
Lead cast: LI Zonghan, LIU Xuanrui
Special Guest: SHAO Wenyi

Script Translators: LU Yisha, LU Yiyi
Set Designer: ZHANG Wanlin
Lighting Designer: CAI Yuyang
Multimedia/Real-time Visual Designer: CAI Yuyang
Sound Designers: Ernuo, LU Yiyi
Movement Designer: HOU Ying
Action Director: London Summers
Dialogue Coach: ZHAO Jingyi
Technical Director: ZHANG Xi
Production Stage Manager: CHEN Peishan
Assistant Stage Manager: LIANG Xiaoying
Assistant Stage Designers:WANG Mingxuan, WANG Yukun
Multimedia/Real-time Visual Design Assistants: ZHANG Chentao, BAI Yuanbing, LI Jinyang
Styling Designers: FU Tianjiao, BAO Wenying
Hair and Makeup Execution: ZHANG Yingjuan

Production Company: Shanghai Guanyi Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
Producer: SHAO Keqin
Producer: ZHENG Xinyu
Publicity Assistant: GONG Peini
Promotional photo shoot: Wujing Studio, YANG Yang
Promotional Video Production: Liangju
Poster Designer: Xiuyixuan
Special Thanks: Professor GAO Zhijun’s Large Model-Assisted Translation Team at Peking University

Copyright Supervision: Jason Meek, LIU Jiayi

Synopsis

Famed true-crime writer Stiller, seeking to complete his new book, decides to interview the notorious serial killer Eastman—a demon who has been confined in a psychiatric hospital for ten years. But when Styler steps into this isolated asylum, he is met not with cooperation, but with eerie obstruction. Dr. Farquhar is openly hostile toward him, insisting that the interview is "far too dangerous". The shifty-eyed nurses, the inhuman whispers echoing from deep within the corridors, and the alarms that sound without warning all breed unease. The stench of rotten liver sandwiches, the cold gleam of scalpels, the howls in the dead of night. Within this prison for the insane, the true monster is tearing open cracks in the darkness...

Creative

Anthony HorowitzOriginal Playwright

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz is one of the most renowned detective novelists and playwrights in Britain today, with accomplishments across multiple genres including fiction, film, and television. Anthony Horowitz’s best-known work is the Alex Rider series, known as the “Young James Bond,” which has sold more than 20 million copies and was adapted into a television series by Amazon.

At the same time, his love for the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, also provided Horowitz with a constant stream of creative inspiration. He once served as the screenwriter for multiple episodes of ITV’s Poirot series. In 2016, his Agatha-inspired novel Magpie Murders caused a huge sensation in literary circles across Europe and the United States as soon as it was published, and was later adapted into a film.

His play Mindgame premiered in 1999 and was subsequently transferred to the West End in 2000. In 2018, the play was revived at London's Ambassadors Theatre and toured nationally across the UK.

LU YishaDirector

LU Yisha

LU Yisha is a young director, holding a master's degree in Directing from the Shanghai Theatre Academy and a master's degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from King's College London. She is also a member of the China Theatre Association.

Major directed productions include the stage plays Mindgame, Age Is a Feeling (Outstanding Production at the 2^nd International One-Person Theatre Festival), Getting Better and Better, Sinner, Little Stories in the Great Forest (Chinese and English versions), Children’s Theatre Troupe (opening production of the 2020 International Children’s Theatre Festival; featured Shanghai Theatre Academy performance at the closing ceremony of the 2021 United Nations Chinese Language Day in Vienna; winner of the 2019 Shanghai Stage Art Exhibition Performance Award), Twelfth Night (English version), Handsome and Beautiful, among others.

LU YiyiScript Translation / Music Design

LU Yiyi

LU Yiyi graduated in 2015 from Newcastle University in the UK with a degree in Translation and Interpreting. Now based in Shanghai, he works in conference simultaneous interpreting, dubbing translation, and literary translation. Her major theatre translation works include: Confessions (the English version of Winter Journey), The Sinner, Little Stories in the Great Forest (children’s theatre), Getting Better, Sunrise (English version), Age Is a Feeling, and The Cherry Orchard (Tuminas version), among others.

ZHANG WanlinSet Designer

ZHANG Wanlin

ZHANG Wanlin is a member of the Shanghai Stage Art Society and graduated from the Department of Stage Design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, majoring in stage design.

Representative works include stage design for the plays Autumn Dream, The Comedy of Errors, and Excuse Me, Mr. TANG; set design for the sign language experimental theatre production Hamletmachine; set design for the dance production Until the End of Paradise; set design for the Georgian monodrama Solitary Director; set design for the environmental opera Don Giovanni; set design for Death Variations, a production presented at the Jing'an Theatre Valley; set design for the musical theatre production Vivian Maier: Please Tell Me Your Secrets; and set design for the play Trust Cocoon.

CAI YuyangMultimedia and Lighting Design

CAI Yuyang

CAI Yuyang graduated from the Stage Design Department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Representative works include the stage plays Autumn Dream, Death Variations, Mountain Temple Dream Talks, and White Pork Strips; the sign language experimental theatre production Hamletmachine; the Georgian solo performance Solitary Guide; the physical theatre production A New Account of Tales of the World; and the interactive dance theatre production Beauty Park, among others.

ErnuoSound Designer

Ernuo

Music and sound design works include the stage shows Life Keeps Changing and Party Idol: Voice of Dreams; children's plays such as Paul and Haha’s Fantastic Journey, The Caterpillar Adventure, I Am a Star, and Annie and the Wild Children of the Island Jungle; spoken dramas including The Second Farewell, The Seven, The Chivalrous Chrysanthemum, Street of Dawn, Hell Screen, Women Rule the World, Invisible, The Sky of Paper Airplanes, The Solitary Gourmet, The Empty Cross, and After School; the China–Latvia co-produced play The Wind Has Tunnels and Unrequited Love; as well as the plays Sinner, Sunrise, Getting Better, Shanghai Sweethearts, Collection of Attempts, and MENG Xiaodong; the dubbing and recitation concert May the Years Be Worth Looking Back On and the reading event Passerby; the Shanghai opera WANG Pansheng; and the original musical To Love.

FU TianjiaoStyling Designer

FU Tianjiao

FU Tianjiao entered the film and television makeup and styling industry in 2000, and has long collaborated with numerous fashion media outlets, television programmes, diverse brands, fashion runways, and celebrities. Her collaborated magazines include VOGUE, ELLE, and L'OFFICIEL; theatre productions such as Mirror Flower, Water Moon and Romantic Encounter; stage plays and television programmes including The Land of Birth and Raising and Comedy Crazy; fashion shows including VERSACE, DIOR, SELENEE, and 3shi.

CHEN PeishanProduction Stage Manager

CHEN Peishan

Production credits include Stage Manager for the Cantonese and Mandarin versions of the musical I Am What I Am, Stage Manager for the play Age Is a Feeling, Stage Manager for the immersive musical Link Click, Stage Manager for the British multimedia musical Piano Anatomy Lesson 2, Stage Manager for the Swedish physical theatre production Islands, Executive Stage Manager for the grand theatre adaptation of Keigo Higashino’s play The Miracles of the Namiya General Store, and Lighting Operator for the Cantonese play CLICK.

Artist

LI Zonghanas Dr. Alex Farquhar

LI Zonghan

LI Zonghan is a well-known actor, a council member of the China Television Artists Association, a member of the Shanghai Film Artists Association, and an actor with the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe. He graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama.

Representative television works include Once Upon a Time in China, Wutong Rain, Hui Niang Wanxin, RUAN Lingyu, Spring Goes and Spring Returns, Painted Skin, New Water Margin, Million Bride: Love Without Regret, Gentlemen, Galloping Years, If Time Flows Back, I Will Find You a Better Home, Grow Up With You, and The Rational Life. Representative film works include Reign of Assassins, Midnight Train, The Lost Bladesman, and I Am Not Madame Bovary. Representative stage play work Red and Black won the Leading Actor Award at the 18^th Shanghai Magnolia Stage Performance Awards.

LIU Xuanruias Mark Styler

LIU Xuanrui

LIU Xuanrui is a second-class actor and a performer at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. He graduated from the Xie Jin Film and Television Art College of Shanghai Normal University.

Major stage productions include Once a Gathering, The End of the Rainbow, The Deer and the Cauldron, The Grand Secretary of the Qing Dynasty, The Shelf Life of Facts, MENG Xiaodong, Perfect Strangers, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, Heroes and Sons and Daughters, The Pitchfork Knight, I Don’t Want to Be Friends with You, Chaplin, The Scholar and the Executioner, Capital, Waves, SHANG Yang, 12 Angry Men, Noble Academy, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Skylight, One Summer, A Streetcar Named Desire, Stones in His Pockets, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, The Piano in a Factory, Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None, Beneath the Bauhinia Tree, Staying Up on New Year’s Eve, Ready for Takeoff, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Potatoland, The Height of Life, Legend of the White Snake, Looking North Across the Great River, and Talking About Love with My Ex-Wife; physical theatre productions include Old Stories of Luzhen, among others. Awards and honours include a nomination for the Leading Actor Award at the 32^nd Shanghai Magnolia Stage Performance Awards, the Outstanding Talent Contract Award at the 25^th Zuolin Drama Arts Awards, Best Actor at the 20^th Zuolin Drama Arts Awards, Most Promising Newcomer at the 17^th Zuolin Drama Arts Awards, the “Best Actor of the Year” award at the 2024 One Drama Awards, the 2019–2020 Shanghai Media Group Performing Arts Rising Star honour, and the Outstanding Performance Award at the 5^th Shandong International Small Theatre Drama Festival.

SHAO Wenyias Nurse Paisley

SHAO Wenyi

SHAO Wenyi graduated from the Xie Jin Film and Television Art College of Shanghai Normal University.

Major stage productions include The Crucible, Veronica's Room, Joy of Life, FEI Ke's Banquet, The Salvation of the Saint, The Cross of Nothingness, The Newcomer, A Guide to Small-Town Life from Traces of Blood, Werewolf, Will There Be a Class Reunion?, The Murderer, Halloween Game, and others.

Guidance

*Please purchase tickets through authorized channels to avoid counterfeiting. Before completing your purchase, please verify the performance date, time, venue, and seat number carefully. Performance tickets are time-sensitive and limited in availability. Once a transaction has been completed, tickets are non-exchangeable, non-refundable and cannot be reissued if lost. Please double-check all ticketing details and securely retain your physical ticket or electronic order. If you are unable to attend due to personal reasons, please make your own arrangements regarding the use of your tickets. We appreciate your understanding as any inconvenience caused.

*The cast, programme, or other performance details are subject to change and shall be based on the live performance. In the event of major adjustments - such as changes to the performance date or lead cast - please refer to the official announcements issued by the NCPA and follow the relevant procedures as instructed.

*The NCPA opens 90 minutes before performances, and 60 minutes before art education lectures and similar events. Auditorium entry begins 45 minutes before performances. For all performances and events, the Northern entrance serves as the sole public entrance. Please ensure that ticket scanning and security screening are completed prior to entry, and allow sufficient time to avoid delays.

*Tickets must be retained in their original, intact condition. Admission will be denied for tickets lacking a stub, or bearing any alterations, obscured information, or defacement. Each ticket is valid for a single entry on the date of the performance. For certain performances, presentation of original valid identification documents is required. Admission will be granted only when the ticket information corresponds with the presented identification.

*Recommended admission height: 1.2 meters and above. Special provisions may apply to certain performances or events, as indicated on the corresponding ticketing page.

*All attendees are required to undergo security screening upon entry. Smoking and open flames are strictly prohibited within the NCPA premises. Prohibited items include, but not limited to, firearms and replicas, controlled knives, flammable or explosive substances, toxic or hazardous materials, corrosive substances, and radioactive materials. Any prohibited items discovered will be handed over to public security authorities.

*For safety and hygiene reasons, the NCPA does not provide storage services for food, beverages, or similar items. The following items are not permitted inside the NCPA: food and drinks, flags & banners, electronic cigarettes, power banks exceeding 20000mAh, flowers, recording or photography equipment, and oversized luggage.

*Attendees are requested to address appropriately. Admissions will be denied to individuals who are improperly attired or under the influence of alcohol.

*If you are late, please wait quietly in the audience waiting area. Entry will be permitted under the guidance of ushers during appropriate intermissions or between movements, and you are requested to take the nearest available seat with minimal disturbance. For concerts consisting of a single piece - either for the entire performance or a complete half - late arrivals and audience who leave midway will not be admitted.

*All attendees are requested to observe proper performance etiquette. Please keep quiet and remain seated throughout the entire performance. Mobile phones should be turned off or set to silent mode, and calls should not be made in the auditorium. Photography, audio, or video recording of the performance is strictly prohibited without prior permission. The use of flashlights, including phone flashlights, is not allowed.

*After the performance, please exit the auditoriums in an orderly manner. Loitering is discouraged.
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Box OfficeNorth Gate of NCPA, No. 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing, China

Tickets Collection Hours9:00-19:30 (CST) on the performance day
9:00-18:00 (CST) for future performance

Booking Line+86 10 6655 0000

Booking Hours9:00-20:00 (CST) Monday to Sunday

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