Oscar winning movie adapted to Chinese theaters

The Father, an Oscar Award-winning film in English written and directed by French playwright Florian Zeller, has been adapted to Chinese theaters, premiering at Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center in July.

The Chinese play features veteran actor Chin Shih-Chieh from Taiwan province as Andre, the elderly father suffering from Alzheimer's disease, with Tian Shui playing his daughter Anna.

The play follows the confusion of the father's memory as he loses grip on reality: his daughter turns into a strange woman, the furniture and his apartment keeps changing colors and shapes. He refuses assistance from the daughter, and begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality, as he tries to make sense of the changing circumstances.