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SHOJI KOKAMI (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: Japanese Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Shoji Kokami |
Angels With Closed Eyes, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mermaid, London | 1991 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19513 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shoji Kokami | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Halycyon Days | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Aug 2011 | |||||
Organisations: | W-Squared Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131720 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shoji Kokami | |||||
Synopsis: | Halcyon Days, by renowned Japanese playwright and director Shoji Kokami, receives its English language premiere with this production at Riverside Studios. Also directed by Shoji Kokami, the text is translated by Brooklyn based, Tokyo born writer, director and performer Aya Ogawa. Examining the cult popularity of suicide websites in contemporary Japanese culture, the play looks at a decade where world conflicts are sensationally streamed on twenty-four hour rolling news channels using terms like 'collateral damage' and 'human shields'. Even terrorist organisations boast about their achievements on YouTube, and 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? Halcyon Days is a dark comedy that follows the story of three people and one ghost who meet on a suicide website. Will they become another statistic in an increasingly worrying trend or, beneath the will to die, can they find in each other a reason to survive. Well, apart from the ghost ... he's already dead. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Organisations: | Third Stage & Amy Kassai Ltd | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69785 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shoji Kokami. UK première of 1993 play, translated by Amy Kassai | |||||
Synopsis: | about truth, delusion and identity | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63228 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shoji Kokami | |||||
Synopsis: | When a chance meeting reunites three old school friends, now making their living as a struggling writer, a psychiatrist and a drag artist, they are all too eager to get reaquainted. But as the stories they tell each other become more and more surreal - from unrequited passions and split personalitities to male eunuchs and escaped Japanese Emperors - they start to question their own and each other's sanity with hilarious consequences. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ya'Akobi And Leidental | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1972 | ||||
Organisations: | Tik-sho-ret TC | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69784 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | comedy Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shoji Kokami | |||||
Synopsis: | about a couple of middle aged, small town saddos who become infatuated with the big-bottomed Ruth | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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