Hamlet: the Musical Tickets

Shanghai Culture Square, Shanghai, China

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Available Dates: 23 - 24 Nov, 2024 (2 events)

Important Info

Type: Musical

City: Shanghai, China

Duration: 3h

Sung in: Chinese

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

Can I choose my seats?

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

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Overview

Since its premiere in Shanghai in May 2023 , the musical Hamlet has received rave reviews and has become a hot drama of the year.

It has been praised by mainstream media and experts as " singing one's own soul, not someone else's song " , " illuminating the dawn of oriental beauty of Chinese musicals " , and " a successful example of Chinese expression of musicals " ; it has been praised by the audience for "establishing an aesthetic high ground for Chinese musicals". The 45 tours in 21 cities throughout the year will continue to push the waves. "Even if you are hurt by the sharpness of the world, you must bravely face the truth of survival." The original musical Hamlet, with its serious and profound theme, romantic and surging poetry, sad and majestic momentum, deep layers and timeless meaning, opens a thrilling voyage through the waves in the field of musicals.

As a cultural symbol shared by the world, Hamlet's situation penetrates time and region, directly hits everyone's survival, leaving endless topics and boundless imagination. Xu Jun Drama's original musical "Hamlet" is based on Shakespeare's world-class drama classic of the same name. It uses the prism of contemporary drama, integrates the cross-cultural perspectives of the East and the West, anchors the mirror question of "to be or not to be", and focuses on the connotation of "thinking and poetry"; it is jointly created by the main creative team of the original musical "The Orphan of Zhao", led by Zheng Qiyuan, a super-powerful musical actor, to release a unique modern tension, exploring the infinite beauty, boundless thinking, and eternal poetry.

Synopsis

The King of Denmark died suddenly, and his brother Claudius was crowned as the new king and married his brother's wife Gertrude. The events that followed were shrouded in mystery, and the Danish prince Hamlet was in a state of worry. The spirit of his father reappeared, revealed the conspiracy to Hamlet and asked him to take revenge. Hamlet thought about it and hid his madness, and confirmed the words of the spirit through "play within a play". The uncle and nephew played a game between light and darkness, and Hamlet accidentally killed the father of his lover Ophelia. Claudius took advantage of the situation and ordered Hamlet to visit England at sea; after experiencing the disaster at sea, Hamlet escaped and returned home, but learned that Ophelia had died of madness. Overwhelmed with grief, he calmly accepted the duel with Ophelia's brother Laertes, and stepped into the deadly trap set by Claudius and Laertes...

Venue Info

Shanghai Culture Square - Shanghai
36 Yongjia Road

Shanghai Culture Square is a regular host to musicals, concerts and dramatic theatre ranging from Les Miserables to Paw Patrol Live. While it is smaller than the Shanghai Grand Theatre in People's Square, the 65,000 square meter building that cost 1.1billion RMB and has just over 2000 seats tells you they didn't pull any punches during construction.

Shanghai Cultural Plaza is located in the center of Shanghai, bounded by Maoming South Road in the east, Shaanxi South Road in the west, Fuxing Middle Road in the north, and Yongjia Road in the south.

Founded in 1952, the Cultural Square was rebuilt from the former Yiyuan Dog Run. It has always played an important role in the social and cultural life of Shanghai people and is one of the important mass political and cultural activity centers in Shanghai . Since its reconstruction and opening in 2011, Shanghai Cultural Plaza has insisted on integrating modern performances, art exhibitions, and cultural experiences, taking musical theater performances as the main line, and various fashion and classic arts as auxiliary lines, with the vision of "Cultural Paradise, Dreams Blooming", Efforts are made to incubate and build an art stage for the development of musicals, lead the cultural and leisure industry, and create a cultural and ecological landmark well-known to the public.

In the past 11 years, the cultural square has performed more than 2,700 performances, attracting more than 3 million audiences, and held nearly 2,300 public welfare activities, with a total of more than 400,000 participants. Successfully introduced classic plays such as "The Phantom of the Opera", "Elizabeth", "West Side Story", "Rock and Roll Mozart", "Notre Dame de Paris", and produced "My Bucket List", "Rachmaninoff", "Romeo and Juliet", "Fan Letters" " and many other Chinese versions of musicals, the first original musical incubation plan launched in the country, hatched and presented many original musicals such as "The Empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty", "Life and Death Sign", "Sorry I Forgot", and toured all over the country . While working hard to implement the development goal of "building a landmark public cultural and art center in Shanghai", as a professional platform for musicals, it continues to explore the role of an industry integrator and holds the "Performing Arts World-Shanghai International Musical Theater Festival" every year. Industry-university-research resources support excellent original works and enhance the audience base of the musical theater industry.

At present, the cultural square has a main theater with 1949 seats on three floors. The width of the stage is 20 meters and the height is 11.5 meters. The first professional theater in China that takes musical theater as its genre.