Listen to Your Inner Ape

Drum Tower West Theatre

Adapted from Franz Kafka

Adapted by Xi Wang and Li Tengfei

Directed by Xi Wang


WHEN:

November 25, 2022, 20:30

November 26, 2022, 15:00

November 27, 2022, 15:00


WHERE: Studio Theatre of the Grand Theatre


Duration: 60 minutes (without intermission)

Performed in Chinese, with English subtitles


Reviews


Solo performance starts to shine when it leaps from "loneliness" to "singularity".

Gu Yiman, Beijing Youth Art Review


Listen to Your Inner Ape, two theater practitioners' way out.

 An'ni, Lifeweek


Li Feiteng really did it. He used an intricate yet natural way of performing to represent a journey from the wild, half-tamed, tamed and then gentrified, peeling through each progressive step. His performance is flawless;  meanwhile, he stays tuned to the live audience, relaxed and natural. I think all audiences would be impressed by this young actor.

 Wang Su, Beijing Daily



About Listen to Your Inner Ape


Listen to Your Inner Ape, adapted from Franz Kafka's short story A Report to the Academy (1917), tells the tale of an ape reporting to a human audience about how he escaped from the cage where he was kept as a prisoner, during which he had the epiphany that the only way out was to become one of them.


Credits


Adapted from the novel by Franz Kafka

Adaptation: Xi Wang, Li Tengfei

Director: Xi Wang


Cast: Li Tengfei


Producer: Li Yangduo

Executive Producer: Han Li

Production Manager: Zhang Cui

Lighting Design: Dong Huoliang

Costume Design: Li Jinjin

Sound Designs: Fang Minna, Guo Yifan

Technical Director: Zhang Shaowei

Stage Manager: Han Han

Lighting Operation: Liu Haibin

Sound Operations: Luo Qiankun, Ye Dehua

Graphic Design: Zhang Liguo

Photographers: Zhu Chaohui, Wu Shi

Video: Ya Fei, Li Jiaxin

Promotion Manager: Han Lu

Promotion Editors: Liu Mengting, Zhang Qianyi

Box Office Manager: Zhao Zhao

Special thanks to Zhong Huizhen, Xu Yin, Liu Tao, Li Kui and Zhao Gang.


Produced by Drum Tower West Production

Presented by Drum Tower West Theater


About Xi Wang


Xi Wang, a theatre director, performance training director, and actor, graduated from École International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in France. With the belief that "performance lies in the human", his works center on "the live and the present performing." His main works include (in chronological order) Shattered Shadow, Ya'akobi & Leidental, Venturing Into the Night, Architecture on the Paper, and Listen to Your Inner Ape.


About Drum Tower West Theatre


Drum Tower West Theatre believes that text is the cornerstone of theatre production and that true avant-gardism means an intellectual novelty. Drawing deep from the power of classic Chinese and Western texts, DTWT is oriented towards producing classical, humanistic works. The theatre's mission is to achieve ideological morals and artistic excellency while always putting quality before quantity. DTWT has produced and presented a series of contemporary classic plays, including The Pillowman, I Did Not Kill My Husband, An Inspector Calls, A Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and Scenes From Marriage, all of which have received high critical acclaim. The "1+1 Young Directors' Theatre Production Programme" launched by DTWT aims to become an incubating platform to tap new talents and create quality productions.


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