£12.00
Concessions: £6.00
Tuesday - Saturday, Tuesday 16th June 2009 - Saturday 4th July 2009 7.45PM
PREVIEWS Tues 16th & Weds 17th June
BSL interpretation on Tues 30th June
Audio Described on Fri 3rd July
VenueDownstairs
Production CompanyStoneCrabs Theatre
WebsiteClick here for more information
Please note that the advertised times are the start of the actual performance, not the time when doors open: please arrive in good time to collect your tickets and take your seats as, in most cases, we CANNOT admit latecomers for whatever reason. If you arrive after the start of a show you will NOT be entitled to a refund, so why not come early instead and enjoy a drink or a meal in our licensed Cafe/Gallery beforehand.
StoneCrabs Theatre presents
Hanjo & Hell Screen
A Yukio Mishima double bill
The turbulent life of Yukio Mishima, one of the greatest exponents of Japanese literature, led him to commit harakiri at the age of forty-five. The haunting beauty of his modern classics, Hanjo and Hell Screen, promise an evening of pure and unforgettable delight at the theatre.
Hanjoç女
In this bittersweet story of unrequited love, the beautiful Hanako waits at a train station with an opened fan in her arms, peering into the face of every man who alights, only to return each time disappointed to her waiting-room bench...
Hell Screen地ç„変
When Yoshihide is commissioned to paint Hell, he sets about having his sadistic vision recreated before him so that he may paint it with measured strokes... Revealed in a cup of sake with a crimson maple leaf floating on it, his conceit comes with a hellish twist– causing a beautiful maiden to be roasted alive in the inferno of a falling carriage. Such is the price of true art.
“StoneCrabs present a double-bill of minatures with considerable style.. Wai Yin Kwok’s design is ravishing, as is the dancing of Yuka You-Ri Yamanka”
Sam Marlowe, Time Out
Free post-show discussions:
Fri 19th June with Stephen Dodd, senior lecturer of Japanese Literature at SOAS
Wed 24th June with Duncan Adam, researcher of Japanese Literature at SOAS
Part of Japan-Uk 150 Tues 30th June: BSL interpretation, with Jacqui Beckford
Fri 3rd July: Audio Described, with Eleanor Margolies and Ruth James
What The Press Say...
“StoneCrabs present a double-bill of minatures with considerable style.. Wai Yin Kwok’s design is ravishing, as is the dancing of Yuka You-Ri Yamanka”
Sam Marlowe, Time Out — 24th June 2009
What You Have to Say...
Two superb plays that, taken together, illustrate the range of which Mishima was capable. (I just finished reading his short story DEATH IN MIDSUMMER, which is remarkably Chekhovian.) Both productions…” (read full review)
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