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First realizations...
The first production of NEW BACKSTAGE 2025
Open studio: 7, 8, 9 Feb 2025
Overview
The first production to launch New Backstage directed by an emerging talent, Bùi Thạc Phong is inspired by the play 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙢𝙖𝙣 by the renowned British-Irish playwright & filmmaker Martin McDonagh.
In a forest where the line between reality and illusion blurs, three children have gone missing. Two have been proven deceased, while the other's fate is unknown. Katurian, a fairy tale writer who works in an animal slaughterhouse, becomes the prime suspect when the events in the crime cases are closely related to his writings. The conversation is interminable, alternating between four characters: two inspectors and two arrested. Six fairy stories entice, beguile, and reveal each character's cover-ups, falsehoods, torments and consolations, pasts and traumas.
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Production team & Cast
DIRECTOR: BÙI THẠC PHONG (b. 2003)
Currently a student majoring in Acting at the Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema, Phong has participated in many stage projects as an actor, as well as appeared in TV series and feature films. His production for New Backstage is his debut project as a theatrical director.
"Six fairy stories are like the consolatory shelter to heal wounds, the bright zone to warm up the dark, but they can also distort reality. As it is difficult to forget past scars and accept reality, these people, after all, carry huge fears and traumas, thus deploy language, violence, power, and ideas to solve them, compensate for them, and escape... attempting to give their acts some sort of value, an alternative reality. However, they forget that in this reality, they are just exacerbating the vicious cycle.
- excerpt from Director's Note
CAST: Nguyễn Vũ (b. 2000)
played the role of Katurian, the writer
CAST: Hồng MA (b. 1985)
played the role of detective Tulposki
CAST: Đồng (b. 2002)
played the role of detective Ariel
CAST: Linh Trần (b. 1995)
played the role of Michal - Katurian's sister
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Production: Khánh Như
Translator: Phạm Minh Ánh, Nguyễn Minh Trang, Dương Diệu Linh
Sound: Minh Trung
Lighting: Thạc Đạt
Editing: Phạm Đình Thiện
Set design: Trung Dương
Personal assistant to Mr. Hồng MA: Hà Taia
Public event
The first production of NEW BACKSTAGE 2025
10,500 +
on social media channels
event engagement
03
full-house nights
180
attendees
a minimalistic yet bold presentation
The absurd stage - manzi exhibition space, turns into an interrogation room, a prison cell, and an execution ground where the audience, like the protagonists themselves, is locked up inside an enclosed yet bottomless box, where each ''𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑈𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒,…'' is a thrilling opening of another compartment/a discovery of a new truth.
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coming up...
more productions to be disclosed
𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗔 𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱) is a non-profit initiative curated by 𝗫𝗽𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗫 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼, supported by 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲-𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶 and Manzi Art Space. The project aims to promote new voices in contemporary performing arts and theatre in Vietnam