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| The Golden Dragon | ||||||||
| 12 January 2012, Sammukh, 6:00 pm | ||||||||
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Playwright: Roland Schimmelpfennig |
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| The Play | ||||||||
| The Golden Dragon is a funny and theatrical fable dealing with issues of migration, all seen through the lens of your local takeaway. The production is comprised of 48 short scenes, shifting location and characters fluidly from one to another. Characters shift through the performer’s physicality, vocal tone, accent, symbolic costume items and through introduction within the text which sees the actor narrate their own character. Five actors play a variety of characters – some Asian cooks, a woman in a red dress who leaves her husband, some air stewardesses, the man who keeps the shop next door, a young woman whose boyfriend doesn’t want their baby – which highlights the interconnectedness of their lives. The actors play across gender and age to present the characters in true Brechtian style. This is not a naturalistic play and it demands that the audience follow their own moral guide and sense of empathy to guide them. There is some swearing in the production, a limited number of scenes of violence and some implied sexual content. |
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