“ophelia3″ an interesting play that pertains to TCK themes

Posted by alainedances on January 19th, 2008 | Categorized as General Forum | 150 views and 1 Comment

I received the following forwarded email from a dance teacher of mine.

I'd love to go see this when the play goes up. Hope all is well!

Alaine

There's more info about the play on the HERE website:
http://here.org/who/artists/ophelia/

about ophelia3:

A woman swept up in the rhythms of a foreign city discovers that she
can live without ever uttering a word. The fragile microcosm of
expatriated schoolgirls is shattered with the arrival of a new teacher
and transfer student. Cultures clash in a theater producer’s office
and the translator bears the brunt. Japanese-American writer-director
Aya Ogawa weaves a haunting exploration through movement and music of
themes arising from the character of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Multiple disparate stories of disjoint and disconnection portray the
convergence of dream and reality in a globalized world.

Aya Ogawa (writer/director) was born in Tokyo and raised in Georgia,
Texas and California, and currently based in Brooklyn. Her work has
been seen in prominent venues in Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, and
nationally.  She was Associate Artistic Director of the Internaitonal
WOW Company (~2003). Her plays include Serendipity (Winner 1996
Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival); Eating Dirt (SoHo
Rep, 1999); and a girl of 16 (2003). She is the recipient of a 2005
Artistic Fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop (where she is now a
Usual Suspect) and Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. She has
received grants and support from Urban Artist Initiative, LMCC
Swingspace, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and NYSCA. She is the founder and
Artistic Director of her new company knife inc.  www.knifeinc.org