Tsunami
23.07 — 24.07.2023
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“Because people cannot see the colour of words, the tints of words, the secret ghostly motions of words (…); is that any reason why we should not try to make them hear, to make them see, to make them feel?” – Lafcadio Hearn
Japan and Greece – two cultures conversing in the new music theatre work titled Tsunami that will be presented with a script and directed by Elpida Skoufalou. On 11 March 2011, a catastrophic earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, triggering a gigantic tsunami, which not only had huge cost in human lives but also caused the biggest nuclear accident after Chernobyl. When disaster struck, poet Mayuzumi Madoka organised haiku composition sessions with the survivors. She collected 126 haiku poems that served as inspiration for the “Tsunami” of this musical performance. With speech, original music – drawn upon the encounter of Japanese musical traditions with those of Greece – and dance as a vehicle, this work focuses on climate crisis and its detrimental effects on our lives and souls.
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