On Stage

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps is a 1935 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, the film is about a man in London who tries to help a counter-espionage agent prevent an organization of spies called The 39 Steps from stealing top secret information. When the agent is killed and he stands accused of the murder, he goes on the run with an attractive woman to save himself and stop the spy ring. Taiwan's Godot Theatre Company adapted the film into a theater play, starring renowned Taiwanese actors Jin Shi-jye, Renzo Liu and Pu Hsueh-liang. The production marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Godot Theatre Company.

Date: October 26 to 28, 7:30 pm

Venue: People Grand Theater

人民大舞台

Address: 663 Jiujiang Road

九江路663号

Tickets: 180 to 680 yuan

Call 6132-6586 for details

Du Fu

Famous for his poems exploring the themes of nationhood and people's livelihoods, Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Du Fu is referred to as the "patron saint of poems" in China. The theater production Du Fu, written and directed by experimental composer, playwright and director Zhang Guangtian, combines several songs with a surrealistic storyline to recreate the images and feelings evoked in Du's poems.

Date: October 19 and 20, 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Art Theater

艺海剧院

Address: 466 Jiangning Road

江宁路466号

Tickets: 80 to 280 yuan

Call 6256-8282 for details

Black is the Color of My Voice

Black is the Color of My Voice, a play written and performed by the Shanghai-based actress and singer Apphia Campbell, is inspired by the life of the legendary singer Nina Simone and features music in the style of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Simone herself. This is a one-and-a-half hour, one-woman play, featuring classic Simone hits such as "Feeling Food" and "I Put a Spell on You." Campbell is a full-time singer, and it is the first time for her to perform a single-hander play. She plays various characters the main character Mena Bordeux meets on her journey.

Date: October 24 to 27, 8 pm

Venue: Anken Green

安垦绿色仓库

Address: 668 Huai'an Road

淮安路668号

Email jadamshanghai@gmail.com for tickets and further information

Shlomo Mintz Shanghai Concert

Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor Shlomo Mintz regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world. During his 50-year music career, he has earned numerous awards, including three Grand Prix du Disque, a Gramophone Award and two Edison Awards. On October 25, Mintz will work alongside leading Chinese conductor Xu Zhijun and the Symphony Orchestra of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, to perform classic works including Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky, The Afternoon of a Faun by Debussy and Tzigane by Ravel. The next day, Mintz will perform a violin recital, playing works including Romance by Dvoák, Violin Sonata No.3 by Brahms and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise.

Date: October 25 to 26, 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心

Address: 425 Dingxiang Road

丁香路425号

Tickets: 80 to 680 yuan

Call 6854-1234 for details

Events

A Dialogue between Post-89 Artists

The dialogue will start from the discussion of the exhibition All New-Formed Relations Become Antiquated before They can Ossify, which shall be held one day earlier at Am Art Space on Fengxian Road in Jing'an district, with the seven participating artists' introductions of their ideas of creation, and discussion and criticism of the exhibition itself. The seven artists invited to the exhibition were born after 1989. With different art learning experiences from the previous generation, they reflect on the past, as to re-examine themselves.

Date: October 19, 2 pm

Venue: chi K11 art space

Address: B3/F, 300 Huaihai Road Middle 淮海中路300号B3层

Admission: Free

Call 2310-3011 for details

The Living Room: A Prelude to the Project 9m2-Museum

The Living Room is a one-night event that will serve as a prelude to 9m2-Museum, an exhibition which will run from October until April next year. Twelve invited young artists have to make use of limited space and time to select a work about the size of their brain to show their perception of and attitudes towards art. During the exhibition, the artists and the curator Zoe Zhang Bing jointly explore the relations between art creation and exhibition, exhibition and space, and space and the post-globalized art system. As our art museums increase in both size and number, we must ask ourselves: is our art improving? Is our creativity freer?

Date: October 18, 7 pm

Venue: Goethe Open Space II, Department for Culture and Education of the General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai

Address: Unit 101, 318 Fuzhou Road 福州路318号101单元

Admission: Free

Call 6391-2068 for details

Exhibitions

Living in South Africa

Entitled Living in South Africa, Chinese contemporary artist Yang Hua is showcasing her recent artworks of oil paintings, pencil drawings and art installations, as a result of her 13 years' living in the African country. After graduating from China Central Academy of Fine Arts, she continued her studies completing a PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. This is her first solo exhibition in Shanghai after she returned from Africa.

Date: October 19 to November 15, 12 pm to 9 pm (closed on Mondays)

Venue: Noeli Gallery

Address: 150 Yueyang Road

岳阳路150号

Admission: Free

Call 6431-9442 for details

Water from Water

Water from Water is the new solo exhibition of Chinese artist Zheng Lu, who has come to prominence in recent years with his stainless steel sculptures that shimmer with a remarkable energy. The exhibition explores pictorial and sculptural vocabularies of surface aesthetic and paradox to create visual conditions that both engage and divert meaning.

Date: Until November 24, 11 am to 9 pm

Venue: Shanghai Gallery of Art

沪申画廊

Address: 3/F, Three on the Bund, 3 Zhongshandongyi Road

中山东一路3号外滩三号3楼

Admission: Free

Call 6321-5757 for details