
StoneCrabs Theatre presents
Hanjo & Hell Screen
A Yukio Mishima double bill
@ Oval House theatre (click here for tickets)
Tuesday - Saturday,
Tuesday 16th June 2009 - Saturday 4th July 2009 7.45PM
PREVIEWS Tues 16th & Weds 17th June
BOX OFFICE 020 7582 7680
Hanjo班女 directed by Franko Figueiredo
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地獄変 directed by Kwong Loke
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.
Part of Japan-Uk 150 Tues 30th June: BSL interpretation, with Jacqui Beckford
Fri 3rd July: Audio Described, with Eleanor Margolies and Ruth James