Cho Cho San

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Event Cho Cho San
Venue Universal Theatre, North Fitzroy, VIC
First Date 20 October 1984
Opening Date 20 October 1984
Last Date 22 December 1984
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description CHO CHO SAN was powerfully moving. The tragedy of a delicate, naive girl caught between two cultures, hopelessly trapped, hopefully yearning and with all hope destroyed, was told through resonant music and lyrics. Singer/actors and life-sized puppets manipulated by visible puppeteers played dual roles. Cho Cho San herself was represented by an actor, and by her alter ego puppet, Butterfly; Goro, the Japanese marriage broker, by an actor and a grotesque puppet of himself; Pinkerton, Kate and Sharpless, Westerners, were actors; and the child of two cultures, a puppet, smothered to death at the hands of its despairing mother.
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Puppetry
Visual Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Dalmazio Babare Composer
Boris Conley Composer
Maryanne Rennie Costume Designer
Ken Evans Designer
Geoff Hooke Director
Philip Lethlean Lighting Designer
Philip Lethlean Lighting Operator/Technician
Dalmazio Babare Musician
Boris Conley Musician
Carmelina di Guglielmo Performer Chorus & Puppeteer
Andrew Hansen Performer Sharpless (Actor) and Child Puppeteer 1
Danny Nash Performer B.F.Pinkerton (Actor)
John Rogers Performer Goro (Actor and Puppeteer)
Ruth Schoenheimer Performer Cho Cho San (Actor)
Lizz Talbot Performer Chorus, Mrs.Pinkerton (Actor) and Puppeteer
Peter J Wilson Performer Butterfly Puppeteer and Child Puppeteer 2
Daniel Keene Playwright
Helen Rickards Producer
Michele Spooner Puppet Designer
Noriko Nishimoto Puppetry Consultant
Michele Spooner Puppetry Consultant
Brian Holmes Set and/or Property Maker
Paul Judd Set and/or Property Maker
Paul Scacchi Set and/or Property Maker
Paul Judd Sound Operator/Engineer
Ken Evans Stage Manager
David Hope Stage Manager
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Book John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009
Web www.handspantheatre.com.au
Programme 1986/7 revival
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 102521