Australian Comedy—COSI(5th Round)
Date: April 12-16—7:30 pm
Venue: Beijing Poly Theatre
Price: 800-1,500 yuan
Cosi is a 1996 Australian comedy film directed by Mark Joffe. In the film, Lewis Riley wants to get a job as a director at a mental (精神病的)hospital. He gets the job and finds himself directing a production of the Mozart opera Cosi fan tutte, an opera in Italian. And it is going to be performed by actors and actresses that he must select from among the patients, who only speak English.
Twelfth Night
By TNT Theatre Britain
Date: April 13-15—7:30 pm
Venue: 9 Theatre Beijing
Price: 60-380 yuan
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601-1602. The play focuses on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a ship accident at sea. Viola(who pretends to be a boy) falls in love with Orsino. But Orsino in turn is in love with Olivia when meeting Viola falls in love with her, thinking she is a man.
Jazz Weekend—Thomas Enhco Piano Recital
Date: May 6—7:30 pm
Venue: Beijing Concert Hall
Price: 80-599 yuan
Thomas Enhco was born in Paris, 1988. He starts playing the violin and piano at an early age, and studies classical music and jazz. At 12, Thomas works with a French jazz violinist Didier Lockwood. He is spotted by Peter Erskine, who offers to help with Thomas Enhco's first CD. In 2004-2005, Thomas creates and records his first album, Esquisse, which is released in 2006. He receives the Young Talent Prize at the Montauban Jazz Festival in 2006.
