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Life in Progress－Sylvie Guillem World Farewell Tour in Shanghai

Date: Oct 18－7:15 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square

Price: 80-880 yuan

Pure physical prowess was the beginning of Sylvie Guillem's career, but it was theater that seduced her and made her the great star of her generation. Born in Paris, she began as a gymnast with Olympic hopes, but at 11 when she and her group attended the Paris Opera's ballet school for polishing, she switched ambitions. The teachers accepted her with delight, bowled over by her extraordinary physique, amazing feet, tremendous jump, and equally by her intelligence and determination.

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Pulitzer-Winning Glengarry Glen Ross in Shanghai

Date: Oct 17-18－7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Jasmine Theater

Price: 80-780 yuan

Mamet at his very best, writing about the salesmen in a cutthroat real estate office competing for leads on potential buyers. The rule of the "sales contest" is that the top man will get a luxury car and the bottom two will be fired. Lie. Cheat. Steal. All in one day's work. The scalding comedy took Broadway and London by storm and won the 1983 Laurence Olivier Best Drama and the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. Revived on Broadway in 2006 and 2012, this masterpiece of American drama also became a celebrated film starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin and Alan Arkin.