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TALES FOR THE THEATRE

Mori J's tales for the theatre are told in the form of sketches/paintings, video clips, audiobooks and downloadable full text. Though some visual elements may seem technically unachievable, the director/choreographer is free to use any viable way to realize the core concepts. Don’t worry too much about making it look magnificent and flawless. Minimal scenery works and stagehands can be employed, while the images should still be striking and the magic astonishing.

 

Play the audio and video files in a good empty space in an undisturbed situation. If you want to make any of the work happen in a theatre space, please make as big a mess as possible. Trample over the audience. Burn them up with fire. Be both gentle and brutal to the extreme.

Clown Pieces - La Trama Repetida is an allegorical tale of' seven clowns' obssessive longing, entanglement and destruction. The Old Weaver who can’t stop weaving, the Creepy Clown who madly cuts up everything, The Mother who feeds the princess with Lava, the Chekhovian Sad Writer, and many more. The tale is told through an excessive mixture of clownery, object puppetry, masks and magic. Music goes on and on in endless loops.

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A woman in her seventies steps into a graveyard in search of her husband's grave, only to find she has lost all her memories. She decides it’s the end of her life and choses to go through it. A young life re-emerges. A new journey is taken in a just-formed universe where she strives to keep up with the progress of civilization.
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The Marionette Man is a mime written by Taiwanese artist Jin Shi-Jye. Mori translated it because she thinks it very much captures an artist's true relationship with art.
 
The original text in Chinese was published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd. in Collection of Jin Shi-Jye’s Plays as BOOK I, copyright 2003, Taiwan. All Rights Reserved. English translation posted here with permission of the playwright.
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Note: Things presented here are some examples of Mori's works. If you wish to see more of Mori's developing concepts, you may contact her.
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