Chimerica Tickets

Chimerica – Clever, challenging, exciting

The term Chimerica was originally coined by the eminent historian Niall Ferguson to describe the strange relationship between America and China, who couldn’t be more different in their outlook; America, the trigger happy and indulgent consumer society and China, the money and land-grabbing control freak. As you can imagine it’s a fascinating tale based on an equally fascinating and dysfunctional relationship. And the press has unanimously dubbed it a ‘must see’.

Chimerica - The story

Expect a thoughtful, complicated picture of the New York photojournalist Joe Schofield’s search for the mysterious and heroic subject of a photo he took in 1989 as the tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square, an image that became his most iconic. The photo, of a lone Chinese protestor standing in front of the tanks in early June 1989, is powerful enough in itself. But the story it reveals turns out to be even more so.

On one level Chimerica is an essay in changing human relationships destroyed by greed, cruelty and selfishness. On another it achieves touching moments of human-to-human connection which stand above the horrific backdrop against which they unfold. It’s a beautiful, accomplished piece of work and a genuine pleasure to watch.

“Play of the year”

In Time Out’s opinion, “this is the play of the year so far”. And it takes the seriously talented and already well-respected Lucy Kirkwood to a whole new level, into the territory of the major writer. The director Lyndsey Turner and designer Es Devlin do a brilliant job of creating scenes via an extraordinary spinning cube which opens to reveal Zhang Lin’s seedy Beijing flat, the office of the star of the show Joe’s newspaper editor and other scenes. The end result is compelling, entertaining, touching, unforgettable.

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