On the wedding night, a Sword of Damocles hangs over her head
'The Salvation of the Saint'
🏨 Venue: Star Space No.16 Liuliang Cat Theater
📍 Address: 8th Floor, East Area, World Trade Plaza, No.829 Nanjing East Road, Shanghai
🎫 Price: 199-349 tickets
⌚ Duration: 90 minutes (no intermission)
💖 Features: Suspense, Criminal Investigation, Sword of Damocles
📼 Cast: Xiang Yu, Shen Haoran, Zhang Yanan, Li Zhaoxing, Liu Yun, Chen Yifan
💓 Experience:
Adapted from Keigo Higashino's long detective novel in the Galileo series, 'The Salvation of the Saint' faithfully restores the plot, presenting the story from a female perspective, cautiously and rationally exploring the timeliness and controversial focus of society, exposing the dark corners of society to the public, and resonating. There is no right or wrong, only the different positions and thoughts of each viewer.
📈 Plot:
The husband, Yotaka Masashi, is accidentally poisoned at home. Professor Yukawa, known as 'Detective Galileo', strives to unravel the details of the case, but cannot accuse the suspect who is within reach due to a solid alibi. 'Theoretically feasible, but impossible in reality,' it is a 'complex solution'—an answer to how a wife in Hokkaido could make her husband in Tokyo drink poison.
📈 Stage Performance:
In a limited space, 10 scenes are divided: the Sanada residence and the second-floor balcony, a street-side cafe and a quilting class, the police headquarters and university laboratory, Runzi's old home in Hokkaido, and actors sitting on the floor among the audience, thereby deriving performance spaces such as outdoors, airports, street corners, etc... The advantage is that it allows every corner of the audience to have the opportunity to watch the performance up close, but the transitions can be a bit stiff and distracting.
💕 The relationship between husband and wife should be based on mutual support and shared honor and disgrace, living under one roof, staying together in one bed, and should support a piece of sky together. However, because of a man's unkindness, his wife has set up a gallows in the family space that can be used for punishment at any time, from the day of marriage. Such a marriage reflects a trend of emotional alienation in modern people and vividly reflects the crises and dangers lurking in the contemporary marriage system, a real existence. Such a marriage, from the beginning, is a tragedy. The profound connotation extended from the novel is that a marriage without love and care is a gallows that puts both parties in a desperate situation, a common grave that buries the marriage parties.