Shanghai Lady Killer
Title: Shanghai Lady Killer
Location: Playhouse, QPAC, Brisbane
Description: Brisbane Festival 2010 presents – Shanghai Lady Killer
Brisbane audiences will be the first to view the on-stage spectacular that is Shanghai Lady Killer when the show makes its international debut at QPAC during Brisbane Festival 2010. This fantastic new work will be on stage at the Playhouse from Thursday 23 September to Saturday 25 September.
Imagine the characters from a classic film noir flawed private eye, femme fatale and underground crime lord meet the superhuman heroines of a Hong Kong Wuxia sword-fighting spectacular. Featuring Wang Fei, one of China’s leading martial arts film stars in the lead role of Lili, this production is set to impress.
The action is set in Chinatown of a futuristic Australian city. Bring in multi-media landscapes, acrobatics, parkour, trampoline, dance, circus and martial arts, and you get a mental picture of the visual spectacle that is Shanghai Lady Killer.
The plot follows an Australian detective, hired to track down a mysterious female Chinese assassin. Her mission is to kill the Mayor, a successful and popular migrant from Shanghai who is in the midst of his re-election campaign. A dark secret looms over the action, threatening to tear the city apart.
Popularised by the Shaw Brothers studios in the 1960s and revisited in Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon – the Wuxia genre is the primary inspiration for this contemporary Australian stage production.
Start Date: 2010-09-23
Start Time: 20:00
End Date: 2010-09-25
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