Dis-Orientations

Synopsis

In search of his missing daughter Alex, with the help of an ex-pat American Private Eye, Julian Lucas trawls the city of Shanghai, exploring everything from the seedy vice industry to the sublime Yue Opera. As he follows his daughter's trail through the darker side of local life, he finds the two extremes begin to blur as life imitates art.

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84.72.62.223) - 24 September 2006:

I went to see 'Dis-Orientations' last night at the Riverside Studios. The show has left a deep and lasting impression on me. I found this an extraodinary theatrical experience. The delicacy of the play's emotions could not be drowned out by the play's representation of the bland. At moments of the utmost violence one sensed desperation. Yet, in that despair there was also hope, glimpses of hope, always hope. Is this possible today in our world? Can it be that there is theatre which will allow itself space in which a totality of existence can make a genuine claim for itself. Can it be that not all theatre has been pricked with narcotic cynicism? If one sits and experiences 'Dis-Orientations' I suggest it is still possible to create work of sublime emotion, passion, anger and grace. For me this was dialectical theatre, a union of opposites, communion, in the theatre. It all makes such sense....

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