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Kazuko Hohki's Wuthering Heights
Last Night I dreamt I was an Eskimo
Great Borrowers' Escape (working title)
Kazuko Hohki's
Wuthering Heights
with Colin Carmichael (Brian)
Directed by Tim Hope
Kazuko is developing the new show based on her favorite book at her teens. About love, about delusion, about loss, about sheep..... This show will be on tour in 2009. (see dates )
Last Night I Dreamed I Was An Eskimo
BIN team ( Kazuko, Andy Cox and Mervyn Millor) are developing a new show around tents in 2008 supported by Arts Council England. We have visited Nordland Visual Theatre in Loften Islands ( inside Arctic Circle) in Norway in December 2007 for possible co-production and Mervyn and Andy have been there again 2008 summer for residency. Kazuko had to stay behind because of her pregnancy (!). This show will be in production and on tour in 2009.
(see dates )
Great
Borrowers'
Escape
This Borrowers show for children is going to has been developed in 2008 with BAC and will be in production in 2009.(see dates)
Repertoire
Oh Doh
Toothless
My Husband is A Spaceman
The Shining Princess
Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers
Oh Doh
The show about Ending. We walk down Kings Road guided by "End Specialist" Kazuko, meeting Thomas More and some others who had connection with Kings Road and also disastrous endings.
This is a site specific promenade piece for limited number of audience.
Made as part of "Sacred" (live art season at Chelsea Theatre), was re-staged in June 2007
http://www.chelseatheatre.org.uk/kazuko.htm
Toothless - the show about her mother's death (with songs, Xerox puppets and animation.)
Kazuko has reworked on this show with director Tim Hope for BAC's October Fest in 2006.
The Shining Princess
A story of a woman who believes she is a princess from the moon. About, longing, loneliness, lunacy and waiting.
My Husband Is a Spaceman (see show detail)
Japanese OL (Office Lady) meets English Anthropologist who has strange secret ....
Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers
Award winning site specific promenade show about BIN (Borrowers International Network) and it's people (Kazuko, Mr. Andy and Dr. Mirror)
My Husband Is a spaceman CDR is available.
This CDR
was made in collaboration with Kibook studio <www.kibook.com>
It has all the songs from the show with animation - and a lot more, including
mini-Kazuko who nods a lot (You can make her nod even more)
You can buy or booths CDR from
Evidence For The Existence Of
Borrowers
(see show detail )
Award winning site specific promenade show about BIN (Borrowers International Network) and it's people (Kazuko, Mr. Andy and Dr. Married)
My Husband Is a spaceman CDR is available.
This CDR
was made in collaboration with Kibook studio <www.kibook.com>
It has all the songs from the show with animation - and a lot more, including
mini-Kazuko who nods a lot (You can make her nod even more)
You can buy or booths CDR from
Other related activities
Duckie
Frank Chickens
BIN Concert
Peskimo
writing
Directing
Educating
Duckie (www.duckie.co.uk )
Kazuko is now Associate Artist for
Duckie.
She is going to perform as Japanese Tourist in Miss High Leg Kick's Fashion Bus event at Trafalger Square this summer 2008. (see dates )
Has performed in West End Live 07 at Leicester Square in July 2007, between Chicago and Wicked. The audience looked a bit confused but Chickens had a good time
Also we played at Komedia at Brighton in August 2008. We had a very enjoyable party after the gig in the dressing room and stayed at Seadragon Backpackers which had 24 hours toast service.
We had a gig at Shunt on November 2nd 2007. You can check out the review in Facebook.
BIN concert
Exert from Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers
Kazuko and Andy Cox play Borrowers' instruments explaining the role of music in Borrowers' society in informal manner.
Peskimos
Musical adventure of many white suited people.They are going to work with Arctic Circle in last half of 2008.
Kazuko as
writer
She is chosen to be one of three script writers for Yellow Voice ( bursary scheme for emerging south Asian script writers led by Yellow Earth Theatre, Young Vic, Soho Theatre and Birmingham Rep). Her script "Pathological Happiness" will be read in Yellow Earth's play reading festival " Typhoon Festival" in November 2008.
(see dates )
Kazuko as
director
Kazuko has directed "Ignorance Is" by Thomas Bowtell in July, 07 at Chelsea Theater, with Amanda Heading and Andrew Bridgmont.
She participated the workshop by Directors Lab Chicago in August 2007.
She is planning to direct more in 2009.
Kazuko as
educator
Kazuko has worked with emerging artists to make site specific show at Live Theater in New Castle in February 2008. She enjoyed it very much and is very keen to work in the similar set up.