Members Only Event - Japan: Arts for the Five Senses
Who:
Japan Society
When:
Monday, April 13 - Saturday, April 25
Where:
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY Warning: Undefined array key "postalcode" in /home/sites/asianloop/www.asianloop.com/htdocs/events/index.htm on line 275
Please contact Karen Sorensen, Director of Individual Giving at 212-715-1261 for more information.
Play Reading Series: Enjoy
Who:
Japan Society
When:
Monday, April 13, 7:30 PM
Where:
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY Warning: Undefined array key "postalcode" in /home/sites/asianloop/www.asianloop.com/htdocs/events/index.htm on line 275
by Toshiki Okada<br />Contemporary Japanese Plays in English Translation<br /> <br /> Three Tokyo men, all approaching or just turning the corner on their 30-year mark, work at a manga (comic book) café. The three fall into the category of NEET, a term first coined in the UK for “Not currently engaged in Employment, Education or Training” and represent a rising social problem in contemporary Japan. Ostensibly a comic and disturbing love story, the play follows the three NEETs as one of them reveals his relationship with a much younger café worker. <em><strong>Enjoy</strong></em> unfolds through <strong>Toshiki Okada</strong>’s trademark writing style of super-colloquial language, revealing a greater crisis in the socio-economic condition of the younger generation in Japan and many other developed countries as evidenced by the labor riots in France in 2006. Originally commissioned and premiered in 2006 at the New National Theater in Tokyo, <em>Enjoy</em> by Okada’s chelfitsch Theater Company received highly controversial reviews. The reading is performed by American actors and directed by <strong>Dan Rothenberg</strong>, founding member and Co-Artistic Director of the Obie-Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company. Rothenberg will direct the full production of <em>Enjoy</em> in the fall of 2009 for The Play Co.<br /> <br /> <strong>Tickets </strong><br /> $10/$8 Japan Society members<br /> <strong><br /> </strong><a href="http://www.japansociety.org//content.cfm/buy_tickets?eid=1c205b85">Buy Tickets Online</a> or call the Japan Society Box Office at (212) 715-1258, Mon. - Fri. 11 am - 6 pm.<br /> <br /> <div class="logos">The Play Reading Series is supported, in part, by the Kinokuniya Bookstore.<br /> <img width="75" height="80" alt="" src="http://www.japansociety.org//resources/legacy/event/uploaded/kinokunyalogo_web.jpg" />
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Who:
Japan Society
When:
Friday, April 17, 7:30 PM
Where:
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY Warning: Undefined array key "postalcode" in /home/sites/asianloop/www.asianloop.com/htdocs/events/index.htm on line 275
Episode 29 - Otoko wa Tsuraiyo: Torajiro Ajisaino koi<br /> <br /> <em>1982, 110 min., 35 mm, color. Directed by Yoji Yamada. With Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho and Ayumi Ishida.<br /> <br /> </em>After a debaucherous evening in Kyoto with Kano, an elegant older man, Tora-san wakes up in his home oblivious that he is the National Living Treasure of ceramics. Tora-san falls in love with his maid Kagari and follows her to her coastal hometown when she moves out after being abandoned by the man she was set to marry.<br /> <br /> This film is part of the Monthly Classics series, <a href="http://www.japansociety.org//content.cfm/film"><em><strong>Best of Tora-san</strong></em></a>.<br /> <strong><br /> Tickets</strong><br /> $11/$7 Japan Society members, students & seniors<br /> <strong><br /> <a href="http://www.japansociety.org//content.cfm/buy_tickets?eid=e42b744">Buy Tickets Online</a></strong> or call the Japan Society Box Office at (212) 715-1258, Mon. - Fri. 11 am - 6 pm.
