Throne of Blood
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 10, 2010
Closed Nov 13, 2010
Opened Nov 10, 2010
Closed Nov 13, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival
NY Premiere
Ping Chong is an internationally acclaimed director, playwright, and video installation artist. On the occasion of the centenary of director Akira Kurosawa's birth, Chong presents his stage adaptation of the legendary filmmaker's masterwork, Throne of Blood.
Inspired by this cinematic masterpiece, Chong calls upon his interdisciplinary roots to reimagine Kurasawa's unsparing vision of mankind for our own troubled age. The classically trained actors of the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival
bring the characters to life in a production that combines text, dance, video projections, cinematic
sound, and elaborate costumes and scenery that evoke both medieval and modern times.
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It seems fitting that Akira Kurosawa's 1957 film classic Throne of Blood, based upon Shakespeare's Macbeth, should in turn be reimagined for the stage. Director/adaptor Ping Chong's Throne of Blood, now at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House, is an admirably stylish effort, but one that only intermittently matches the power of its source material.
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