MIEKO OUCHI   


Mieko Ouchi
   Nationality:
Canadian
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Plays by Mieko Ouchi

MIEKO OUCHI
Blue Light, The
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press
2007
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Genre:
2 Act Drama
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: Runner up - 2005 Alberta Playwrighting Competition. The Blue Light won the 2006 Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play. The Betty's are the professional theatre awards in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Synopsis: Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most remarkable and controversial women artists of the 20th century. Dancer, actor, photographer and filmmaker, Riefenstahl caught the eye of Adolf Hitler with her prodigious first film: The Blue Light. A cinematic innovator, her choice to direct Triumph of the Will got her blacklisted as a filmmaker until her death in 2003 at 101, unrepentant and mostly forgotten. Leni Riefenstahl, 100 years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood Studio Executive. Leni's there to make a desperate pitch for her first feature film in fifty years. The young woman willing to meet her? Harder to say. . .. A thought provoking contemplation on art, politics and the seduction of fascism and a theatrical examination of a woman who danced one perfect dance with the devil and changed the way films are made.
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MIEKO OUCHI
Jeremy Fisher
1st Produced:
Concrete Theatre, Edmonton, Canada
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Children's Play (45 minutes)
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
Can be done with four actors (3 M, 1 F), or three with doubling.
Notes: Jeremy Fisher is an English translation of the play of the same name written by Mohamed Rouabhi of Paris, France. This translation was a commission from the Banff Centre for the Arts France/Canada Translation Program, and was dramaturged by John Murrell and Vanessa Porteous. Appropriate for ages 5-12.
Synopsis: An old fishing couple is blessed with the birth of a sweet young son, Jeremy, but quickly come to realize he's different from other boys. Slowly, inexorably, he is transforming into a fish. His parents face the ultimate decision of their lives: whether to keep their beloved son with them in an aquarium for the rest of his life, or give him up to a life of freedom in the sea. A tender, magical and moving exploration of the process each parent must go through as they give their children up to the wider world.
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MIEKO OUCHI
Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say Goodbye), The
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press
-
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: been translated into Japanese from English by Yoshi Yoshihara. finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 2004 and was the 2005 winner of the Canadian Author's Association Carol Bolt Drama Prize
Synopsis: explores the transforming relationship between a disillusioned young aristocrat and the violin virtuoso and composer Antonio Vivaldi. Trapped in a loveless and abusive marriage, the young un-named woman is forced by her husband, a rich patron of Vivaldis, to take violin lessons from the aging and desperate composer and within six weeks play a concerto for the court in Paris in 1741. All for a bet. The delicate, complex and combative journey they embark on will not only decide her future, but also change both of them in ways they never imagined. A story about the healing power of music.
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