Dilemma of love
Shanghai Grand Theater will open its new season with an opera production of Manon Lescaut from the Royal Opera House of Britain. The new production, co-created by the Royal Opera House, Shanghai Grand Theater and Shanghai Opera House, brings Puccini's creation to the 21st century, when Manon swings between a man she loves and another who is wealthy. She is then set up and banished, before dying in the arms of her true love.
7:30 pm, Sept 3, 5, 7. Shanghai Grand Theater, 300 Renmin Dadao (Avenue), Shanghai. 400-1068-686.
Chinese makeover for English spoof
Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center is presenting the Chinese edition of an English spoof Out of Order. The play by Ray Cooney is about a politician of the Conservative Party in an affair with a secretary of the Liberal Democrats. Well-received since it was first staged in 2007, the play comes to China featuring Lyu Liang and Xie Chengying in the lead roles and Tian Rui as the innocent sidekick who becomes embroiled as the crisis escalates.
7:30 pm, until Sept 7; 2 pm on Sept 6, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Art Theater, 1F, 288 Anfu Lu (Road), Xuhui district, Shanghai. 021-6473-0123
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