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AYA OGAWA |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: AO International |
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Plays by Aya Ogawa |
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| 1st Produced: | 27 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | The Play Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69959-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109127 | |||
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Genre: | Translation - Experimental, Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Toshiki Okada | |||||
| From acclaimed Japanese director/playwright Toshiki Okada, Artistic Director of the internationally-lauded chelfitsch Theatre Company, comes a chronicle of post-college ennui and 21st Century relationships in Japan's Lost Generation. The static lives of several self-obsessed GenX comic book store clerks are thrown out of balance by the presence of a younger female co-worker, who rightly makes them question the meaning of their lives in a shifting socio-economic landscape. Written in the hyper-colloquial style Okada has become famous for, this play is presented for the first time in English in a translation by Japanese American playwright Aya Ogawa, and was met with massive critical praise upon its New York premiere. | |||||
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Five Days in March | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | Witness Relocation | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114262 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Toshiki Okada. Translated by Aya Ogawa, adapted by Dan Safer | |||||
Synopsis: | Director Dan Safer and his Witness Relocation ensemble will apply their pop-culture dance/theater style in adapting this revolutionary Japanese work for American audiences. Five Days in March by Toshiki Okada is set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. Minobe meets Yukki at a rock show. Their awkward conversation leads to five days of wild sex in a love hotel. Azuma sells Miffy a ticket to a bad movie. Miffy thinks Azuma doesn't return her feelings, so she decides to move to Mars. Yasui and Ishihara go on an anti-war protest. The police escort's uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. Oblivious to the imminent invasion of Iraq, these hipsters obsess over the details of their lives, perfectly capturing the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today. The story unfolds through actors who slip in and out of character while also narrating and playing out scenes. Productions of Witness Relocation combine dance and theater with the energy of a rock show, exploding contemporary culture into intensely physical, outrageous, poetic, and sometimes brutal performances in order to question the assumptions of the modern day experience. This unique fusion of forms connects Witness Relocation to Okada and his chelfitsch company of Japan: both are known for crossing and combining disciplines and for being equally adept at theater and dance. | |||||
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Halycyon Days | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Aug 2011 | |||||
Company: | W-Squared Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131720 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Shoji Kokami | |||||
Synopsis: | Halcyon Days, by renowned Japanese playwright and director Shoji Kokami, receives its English language premiere with this production at Riverside Studios. Also directed by Shoji Kokami, the text is translated by Brooklyn based, Tokyo born writer, director and performer Aya Ogawa. Examining the cult popularity of suicide websites in contemporary Japanese culture, the play looks at a decade where world conflicts are sensationally streamed on twenty-four hour rolling news channels using terms like 'collateral damage' and 'human shields'. Even terrorist organisations boast about their achievements on YouTube, and chronic depression is catered for by the increase of 'informative' suicide websites. Are people becoming more jaded with their real existence? Has life lost sanctity and meaning? Halcyon Days is a dark comedy that follows the story of three people and one ghost who meet on a suicide website. Will they become another statistic in an increasingly worrying trend or, beneath the will to die, can they find in each other a reason to survive. Well, apart from the ghost . . . he's already dead. | |||||
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oph3lia | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | HERE Arts Center & Knife, Inc | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85378 | |||
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Genre: | Play Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Dreams and reality converge in Oph3lia, as Shakespeare's Hamlet inspires a haunting collision of cultures. Aya Ogawa's original script explores different facets of Ophelia in contemporary contexts, interweaving three distinct stories that center on themes of isolation and disconnection. An immigrant woman embarks on a mysterious journey through New York where she discovers that she can go through life without ever uttering a word. In a Christian international school in China, where the students have formed their own hierarchies within the school walls, the arrival of a new teacher and a transfer student sens the fragile microcosm spinning. Cultures clash in a theater producer's office: in the maddening mix of languages in the world of entertainment production, compromises of artistic integrity punctuate the struggle in the creation of art, and the interpreter bears the brunt. oph3lia is a multilingual, multi-disciplinary production developed through a collaborative process with a culturally diverse cast of 13 performers from Japan, the Philippines, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. The piece incorporates video, music, live singing, and choreography. | |||||
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