The Diver
From: Thursday, 19th June 2008
To: Saturday, 19 July 2008
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Synopsis
Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's play, The Diver, ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tales of Genji with a Noh theatre play and a contemporary murder.
Our Review:
24 June 2008
The Barbican has the legend “do something different” enshrined in its logo, but the same job description could be as easily applied to the Soho Theatre, where the unexpected so often crops up in the name of the new. The Diver by the Japanese actor/director Hideki Noda and the Irish playwright Colin Teevan is nothing if not weird, a strange dream-like mix of interrogation, psychological case study and shifting narrative.
Kathryn Hunter plays a woman who has killed her lover’s two children in a crime of arson, but she is also possessed by the spirit of an eleventh century Japanese mistress bent on vengeance. Noda himself plays the inquisitive psychiatrist in a production he has directed as a playful meditation on Noh theatre techniques of stylized movement, a central female character (known as a “wig” role) and terse dialogue that threaten to become poetry.
And with his designer Catherine Chapman and sound expert Paul Arditti (using music by the...
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Hideki Noda (Author)
Colin Teevan (Author)
Soho Theatre (Producer)
Setagaya Public Theatre (Producer)
Hideki Noda (Director)
Denzaemon Tanaka (Music)
Catherine Chapman (Design)
Christoph Wagner (Lighting)
Paul Arditti (Sound)
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