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Kazuko Hohki

KAZUKO HOHKI  

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Born in Tokyo and came to England in 1978. Kazuko is a founder member of the pop performance group Frank Chickens which had a independent chart hit with We Are Ninja, released 5 albums and toured worldwide. The group used to be a duo but in the last two decades or so, it has expanded to 16 members?or sometimes more. In 2010 they won the Foster Comedy God award through public voting. In 2011, Frank Chickens performed at the Barbican Arts Centre as part of Extraordinary Voice Festival in July and also at Royal Festival Hall as part of Stewart Lee Jubilee in May. She has made a trilogy of solo performances based on her experience as a Japanese woman in the UK: Toothless, The Shining Princess and My Husband Is A Spaceman with which she has toured UK and worldwide. Her installation based show - Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers - has won a Total Theatre award and a Herald Angel award at the 2005 in Edinburgh Festival.

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below is a list of Kazuko Hohki's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Club Monkey         Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers         Great Escape, The(A Borrower's Tale         My Husband Is A Spaceman         Toothless

Club Monkey

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Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers

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devised by Kazuko Hohki, Andy Box & Mervyn Millar

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BAC, London >>>    2004

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Your Imagination for Octoberfest

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Great Escape, The(A Borrower's Tale

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Using your super sleuth skills, search our building to discover tiny clues for the existence of Borrowers (the small people who live under the floorboards). Will you be successful finding Bob the Borrower and helping him escape the evil clutches of the KBD (Keep Borrowers Down)?

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inspired by the original novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton. Conceived And Created by Kazuko Hohki. Written And Designed by Kazuko Hohki And Andy Cox

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My Husband Is A Spaceman

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Kazuko Hohki (of Frank Chickens) tells the funny and moving tale of an anglophile Japanese office girl who marries an 'unworldly' English anthropologist. Storytelling with music, song and animation. 'Completely delightful' Time Out Critics Choice.

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BAC, London >>>    2001

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Japan 2001 Festival

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Toothless

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Death has been described as the last great taboo of our age. Yet it seems to me that death and dying have been well and truly outed. Open a newspaper and you'll find John Diamond facing the consequences of cancer. Turn on the TV and if Oprah isn't helping a studio of people overcome their grief, some soap opera will be showing an individual being snuffed out by a rate incurable disease that nobody has ever heard of, or an entire community rubbed out by a billion-to-one catastrophe. Not since the 17th century and the Jacobean revenge playwrights has popular culture been quite so obsessed by death. Since Diana died and brought funerals back into fashion, we have all become death groupies. In this context, Matters of Life and Death, a season of theatre about death and dying at London's BaC, seems slightly less essential, particularly since so few of the shows get to grips with the subject matter. There has been some terrific theatre work on the theme of dying: it recently proved good West End box office in Margaret Edson's Wit, about an American professor who dies of ovarian cancer. Frantic assembly's immensely touching Hymns, about the rising toll of young male suicides (which had two performances in the BaC season), and Improbable's Coma have taken death to the cutting edge of performance. But after a week at BaC I feel bombarded by statistics and jokes. Why do so many companies fail to take this subject seriously? Or simply treat it like an actuarial statement? Is it that many of the companies here are' made up of young people who have not yet confronted their own mortality.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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part of BaC's Matters of Life And Death Festival A season of theatre About death And dying

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