Photographic memories
10.03.10
Once up there with "no use crying over spilled twist" and "a penny saved is a penny earned, and the old bromide drives" the camera never lies "was Photoshopped into irrelevance . But as the playwright Naomi Iizuka suggests the intriguing strange devices for the long-way-off from the West, the darkroom has long been an accomplice in the exhibitions of dupes.
Monkeyshines new Iizuka is having its world premiere at Berkeley Rep, where its 36 Views was seen in 2001, and again it explores the enchantment of the West, both artistic and exploitation, with artifacts East.The shuttle's new play backwards in life, between a seedy section of Yokohama in the late 19th century and Tokyo brilliant day determined. The photograph becomes the iris through which racism, homosexuality, prostitution, counterfeiting, xenophobia, and a lecherous American matron came to pass in a complicated collage.
Japan, as you may recall the story of high school, I was in a country fiercely divided until 1854, when the United States sent Commodore Perry to call to mind the Japanese part the global economy or risk attack.While Westerners gathered trinkets of non-native East, Japan clung to Western-style industrialization and dispelled the feudalism of shoguns and samurai romanticized by the West for years.
Source: Bay Area Reporter