Name: Sumida River in Sign Language
Start: 2022-09-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Arcola Theatre

Organization

Grimeborn Opera Festival

Stage director

Verity Lane

Assistant Director

Martha Coleman

Set designer

Mirei Yazawa

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Nao Nagai

Sound designer

Singer

Brian Duffy

La femme folle

Chisato Minamimura

Mother

Stephanie Daw

Ghost Child

Akinori Fujimoto

Percussion

Elizabeth Oliver

Voice

English

Sumida River in Sign Language

London

United Kingdom

Arcola Theatre

Studio 1

Sumida River in Sign Language: Sumidagawa

Public

Sumida River

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A mother meets a ferryman on the banks of Sumida River. He is waiting to take the last passengers across the water. She is looking for her lost son. Their boat carries them into the world of the ghost child.

Poignancy and comedy mix in a shifting kaleidoscope of sign languages and spoken word, where Deaf performers are played like musical instruments, where drums beat to the sound of speech and song, where silence is as deep as the world.

Verity Lane’s scintillating production is a re-imagining of a 650-year-old Japanese Noh (mask) play Sumidagawa which inspired Benjamin Britten to compose his musical parable Curlew River. It stars Chisato Minamimura as the Mother and Brian Duffy as the Ferryman, with percussive music and haunting shadow play.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew