July 10 – July 12
2015
The Theatre on King is happy to present a new work by Kathleen Adamson and Brad Brackenridge, Komachi on the Shrine.
Funded by Theatre Trent.
Scholars say that Noh plays essentially depict the ‘inner lives of ghosts’. Komachi on the Shrine is a puppet play based on the Noh drama Sotoba Komachi. It relates the encounter between two traveling priests and the aged spectre of a famous poet, the notoriously beautiful Ono no Komachi. (Komachi was a real woman who lived in the 9th century in Japan, and whose stark and haunting works are still read today.) The priests are initially offended by Komachi, but are drawn into her tale of a disastrous love affair. Script is set to original music by Kathleen Adamson, puppets and staging by Brad Brackenridge, and music performed by Bennett Bedoukian, Janel Jarvis, Cindy Ellen Morgan, and Kathleen Adamson.
Poster Design by Patrick Holland
