Halcyon Days
From: Tuesday, 23rd August 2011
To: Sunday, 18 September 2011
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Synopsis
Examining the cult popularity of suicide websites in contemporary Japanese culture, the play looks at a decade where conflicts with other nations are sensationally streamed on 24 hour rolling news channels and terrorist organisations boast about their achievements on YouTube. Even chronic depression is catered for by the increase of ‘informative’ suicide websites. Are people becoming more jaded with their real existence? Has life lost sanctity and meaning?
Our Review:
26 August 2011
Suicide anyone? The only questions for the three characters who have arranged to meet through the internet for a joint suicide pact would seem to be when, where and how, but as this tragi-comedy of a play progresses it is their motivations that are revealed and provide the discordant diversions that prolong and prevent what each had thought would be a simple exit from reality.
Written and directed by the acclaimed Shoji Kokami, assisted by Raymond Waring in this newly translated English version of his 2004 Japanese original, this production uses European actors in what is clearly a very Japanese play exploring Japanese obsessions. It requires the audience to make a leap of faith or willing suspension of disbelief in order to fully engage.
Lone Schacksen’s minimalist set, of angled wooden panels as a backdrop and four box frames for seats and platforms, serves to set the slightly surrealistic mood of this, at times, absurdist production. Divided into a series of...
Creative
Shoji Kokami (Author)
W-Squared Productions (Producer)
Aya Ogawa (Translation)
Shoji Kokami (Director)
Lone Schackensen (Design)
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