Sounds and Silence.(Review) (theater review)
American Theatre, October, 2000 by Renner, Pamela
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T.S. Eliot had it almost right: In the room the women come and go, speaking of Vermeer in Tokyo.
At least that's the story of Tokyo Notes, an elliptical play by playwright Hirata Oriza, which garnered Japan's foremost theatrical honor, the 39th Kishida Drama Award in 1995. This month (Oct. 26-28) Notes makes its New York debut at the Japan Society.
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Tokyo Notes is set in the visitors' lounge of an art museum in Japan, a place where strangers and acquaintances rub elbows. In Hirata's hands, this space becomes an oasis of calm in a violent cosmos. Set in the near future ...
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