File puptcrit/puptcrit.0709, message 67


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
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