Cambodia Agonistes
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 29, 2005
Closed Nov 20, 2005
Opened Oct 29, 2005
Closed Nov 20, 2005
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Cambodia Agonistes, a musical with book and lyrics by Ernest Abuba and music by Louis Stewart, focuses on the civil war years of Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge and the genocide of the 70's. Through traditional Cambodian dance, puppetry and an original score of 20 musical numbers, Cambodia Agonistes tells the story of a traditional Cambodian dancer, suffering psychosomatic blindness who is found wandering the streets of New York. In her attempt to overcome her personal horrors and her homeland's history she must make an enormous sacrifice.
Tisa Chang returns to direct and this new staging of one of Pan Asian Rep's most successful productions.
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In Cambodia Agonistes, a woman who has experienced too much horror refuses to see any more. Psychosomatically blind, she wanders the streets of New York City as her mind takes her back to the killing fields of Cambodia. This fascinating but uneven work focusing on the human cost of war, with book and lyrics by Ernest Abuba and music by Louis Stewart, is being presented for the second time by Pan Asian Repertory. (It was first produced in 1992.)
The show's central character is a dancer (played by Lydia Gaston) who used to teach her art to children in Cambodia; then the Khmer Rouge slaughtered her young charges and made her dance on the ashes of the dead. Living through the civil war that ra[...]