Events
Louis Nowra's "The Woman with Dog's Eyes" by Rakutendan
15 January 2010 - 20 January 2010
The indefatigable Rakutendan will produce another of Australia's finest plays. After having produced several of Louis Nowra's plays; 'Golden Age', 'Radiance', 'Crow', Rakutendan is back with 'The Woman with Dog's Eyes' as the first in Nowra's 'The Boyce Trilogy'.
Story
Exploring the struggles for love, power and happiness within a family, 'The Woman with Dog's Eyes' is based around the 1949 song Some Enchanted Evening. Nowra sets the play in an old hotel in the Blue Mountains, inspired by old Colonial hotels such as the Hydro-Majestic, in which he introduces the Boyce family as they gather to celebrate the parents' 40th wedding anniversary. Tracing a story which is familiar to many of Sydney's families, Malcolm, of working-class origins, has until now run a successful real estate company. But due to cash-flow problems and community resistance he faces a crisis in his latest high-class development 'Hesperus Park'. Exploring universal themes of family, love and disappointment, firecrackers and a swing band, Nowra exposes the problems of each family member as the play develops.
Rakutendan
Rakutendan introduces and collaborates with the best overseas actors of minority status to Japan. Thus far it has worked in collaboration with an Aboriginal Canadian writer at the Canada theatre festival in 2001, and since 2002 has produced a series of contemporary Aboriginal Australian plays. It makes new theatrical creations in exchange with collaborators from other cultures and genres.
| Date |
15 January 2010 - 20 January 2010 Friday, 15 January 2010, 19:30 |
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| Venue |
Nakano Studio Actre Sun Nakano Mansion B1 Phone: 03-3384-3495 Website: |
| Admission |
Pre-booked 3000yen At the door 3300yen Students 2500yen |
| Enquiries |
Office Mube Phone: 042-727-8640 Fax: 042-727-8640 Website: http://mube.officemube.com/ Email: mail@officemube.com |
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