incubatorarts.org: With a skeleton faithfully based on the 17th century Japanese play by Zeami, and flesh that is all All-American, Lady Han is an entirely focused and otherworldly 20th century spin on a classic Noh play. Lady Han is a story of a prostitute who falls in love with a client, Yoshida, and pines for him all Fall and Winter. When he returns she has already gone mad and doesn’t recognize him. Using this poetic text and the conventions of classical Japanese drama, the production aims to lift our own culture — denim, Dolly, shopping carts, line dancing, plastic Christmas trees — to the height of elegance.
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With our constantly hustling and bustling lives, it is definitely hard to slow down and actually give ourselves time to think. I love that this play is both modern and ancient, based off a theatre form from centuries and centuries ago, yet also bringing to light problems of today. It sounds like it will be a beautiful production, and it always makes me happy when I leave a theater pondering and chewing over what I just saw and trying to not only give it new meaning, but to put it into the context of my own life and discover how it may help me face my problems differently, which it seems this play would do.
This article doesn't seem to mention where it started. Correct me if I am wrong, but Lady Han started here at CMU in playground, correct? I love seeing that this show is being produced years after it left CMU. It sounds like a truly gorgeous production and I would love to see it. I hope that this play is very successful in it's new run!
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