Event |
Cho Cho San
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Venue |
Universal Theatre, North Fitzroy, VIC |
First Date |
20 October 1984 |
Opening Date |
20 October 1984 |
Last Date |
22 December 1984 |
Dates Estimated |
No |
Status |
Professional |
World Premiere |
Yes |
Description |
CHO CHO SAN was powerfully moving. The tragedy of a delicate, naive girl caught between two cultures, hopelessly trapped, hopefully yearning and with all hope destroyed, was told through resonant music and lyrics. Singer/actors and life-sized puppets manipulated by visible puppeteers played dual roles. Cho Cho San herself was represented by an actor, and by her alter ego puppet, Butterfly; Goro, the Japanese marriage broker, by an actor and a grotesque puppet of himself; Pinkerton, Kate and Sharpless, Westerners, were actors; and the child of two cultures, a puppet, smothered to death at the hands of its despairing mother. |
Description Source |
Website |
Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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Secondary Genre |
Puppetry
Visual Theatre
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Organisations |
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Contributors |
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Resources |
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Article:  Geoffrey Milne, Cho Cho San: 'a triumph of collaboration', Australasian Drama Studies, Australasian Drama Studies, c/- Department of English, Univ, 12/13, 1988, 85 - 101
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Costume:  Kimono used in Cho Cho San, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australian Performing Arts Collection, 1984
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Mask:  Mask used in Cho Cho San, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australian Performing Arts Collection, 1984
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Performance Recording:  Andrew Bleby, Cho Cho San Video segments Filmed by ABC Education, 1984
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Photograph:  Ken Evans, Butterfly, Ruth Schoenheimer, 1984
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Photograph:  Ken Evans, Cho Cho San: Butterfly and puppeteer Peter J.Wilson, 1984
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Photograph:  Ken Evans, Cho Cho San: Butterfly's bedroom, 1984
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Photograph:  Ken Evans, Cho Cho San: Piano Bar, 1984
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Photograph:  Ken Evans, Cho Cho San: Piano Bar: Sharpless, 1984
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Photograph:  Stephen Hall, Cho Cho San, Ruth Schoenheimer, 1984
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Photograph:  Stephen Hall, Cho Cho San: Meeting Pinkerton's wife, 1984
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Photograph:  Stephen Hall, Cho Cho San: Pinkerton seduces Butterfly, 1984
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Photograph:  Stephen Hall, Mrs Pinkerton, Lizz Talbot, 1984
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Works |
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Text Nationality |
Australia
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Production Nationality |
Australia
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Event Status |
Completed
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Data Source |
Source |
Description |
Book |
John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009 |
Web |
www.handspantheatre.com.au |
Programme |
1986/7 revival |
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Event Identifier
| 102521 |
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