Myung Hee Cho natural minimalist: in her stage designs, simplicity is the keynote of elegance. (Profiles).(36 Views and Lackawanna Blues)(Interview)
American Theatre, October, 2002 by Hong, Terry
Before a single word is uttered, Myung Hee Cho's designs have already revealed the essence of Naomi Iizuka's 36 Views. In the silent opening interlude, actress Liana Pai sheds her layers of kimono, each filmy affectation unveiled slowly in a polychromatic metamorphosis, until it is finally reduced to black and white.
This is the breathtakingly exquisite world envisioned by designer Myung Hee Cho in Tizuka's similarly exquisite play that opened last spring at New York's Joseph Papp Public Theater--a world of colors lost, clarity threatened and layers stripped away, which expose an ...
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