Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:51:22 -0500 From: "Martin Holman" <jmartinholman-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: [Puptcrit] Bunraku in the Chicago area News about the National Bunraku Theater at Northwestern University and University of Illinois--and more . . . After a long (and strange) delay, the details for the performance at Northwestern University of the National Bunraku Theater of Japan have been released. The performance is scheduled for Monday, October 8. Information is available at the following URL: http://bunrakumidwest.com/ I understand that the show at the University of Illinois on Saturday, October 6 sold out a couple of days after they went on sale last month. If you can't get tickets to one of the performances by the National Bunraku Theater in the Chicago area, may I humbly--VERY HUMBLY--invite you to enjoy an evening of traditional Japanese puppet theater by Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe at the Assembly Hall in the International House at the University of Chicago at 6:30 PM on October 3. (We are not the National Theater--but then, our tickets don't cost $70 either.) We will be joined in our performance by a chanter, a samisen player, and two puppeteers from the 300-year-old Imada Puppet Troupe of Iida in Nagano Prefecture in central Japan. We will be performing the celebratory opening piece, the Sanbaso, as well as Yaoya Oshichi (the story of a fire tower and young girl in love--a version of which he National Theater is also performing on tour this year) and Hidakagawa Iriaizakura, in which a grumpy boatman and a faithless lover drive a jealous young woman into a demonic rage. Info at the following URL: http://ceas.uchicago.edu/bunraku/ Thanks, Marty ______________________ J. Martin Holman Coordinator, Japanese Studies Program Director, Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe 443 General Classroom Building University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Tel. (573) 882-3368 holmanma-AT-missouri.edu Japanese Studies Program: http://japanesestudies.missouri.edu Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe: http://www.bunraku.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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