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My Husband Is a Spaceman 5star review in The Glasgow Herald. "This is one of those shows where you can't help laughing, simply because Kazuko Hohki is such a droll story-teller. Yet, even as you are chortling at her descriptions of life as a Japanese office-lady, you feel something bringing an unexpected lump to your throat. As she confides quietly her dreams to you, Hohki spirits us well beyond world-weary cynicism. She favours lo-fi art forms - hand-made animations and little paper modelsS±Here is a style that celebrates simplicity and directness, but in ways that reveal sophisticated truths about different cultures, personal aspirations, and the compromises that we choose you make in pursuit of happiness and fulfilment." Mary Buchanan
Other reviews:
TIME OUT Critics¸ Choice, Fairly kooky and completely delightful. Lit up with a romantic, care-free humour that can only inspire the highest of spirits. EVENING STANDARD Beguiling. Idiosyncratic and gently innovative, this is a delightful trip to an imaginative universe where - among other attributes - one hour feels like a mere five minutes WHAT'S ON A theatrical romantic comedy with moments of profundity and dazzling invention. Hohki¸s performance is a very quiet tour de force.Go see. THE GURDIAN 4 stars! A delightfully flimsy, homemade feel. www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk/reviews/edinburgh "Poetically evocative, very funny, and totally opaque - just about all you could ask from a performance piece. " Gerald Berkowitz
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Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers The Gurdian Lyn Gardner 3 stars Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers BAC, London Lyn GardnerTuesday October 12, 2004 The Guardian Deadpan alley: Kazuko Hohki and Andy Cox in Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers. Photo: Tristram Kenton Delightfully batty and bizarrely charming, this piece from Kazuko Hohki offers happiness for everyone as it promotes cultural exchange between Borrowers - the tiny people who live under the floorboards in Mary Norton's books - and "human beans". The conceit is that Hohki, a scientist who created the Zen pill, has been sacked from her job in Japan after a number of the pills went missing. Hohki believes Borrowers were responsible, and after setting up the Borrower International Network (BIN) via the internet comes to Clapham in search of the mysterious Bob B501, who she believes is a Borrower. As secretary of BIN she welcomes the audience to her conference, taking us all over the BAC building to show us evidence of Borrower activity and artefacts. You can spend a happy few moments playing Borrower table football and crazy golf (or Bolf as it is known), consider a number of important objects (or Bobjects), use a stethoscope to hear the anguish of baby Borrowers being punished, and hear a Borrower concert in the BAC attic. Presented entirely deadpan, the show can be enjoyed merely as a wonderfully eccentric piece of hokum, but would seem to me to have greater depths. Above all, it is a metaphysical journey into the nature of faith and belief. Hohki might just be insane, she might be a con artist (the availability of the paperclip piano at £1,000 suggests this) - or she could be a true guru who has found the secret of happiness: total faith in the existence of something that can't be prove There were more reviews in The Times (4 star!), Total Theatre magazine Time Out Glasgow Herald (5 star!) British thetare Guide etc... Toothless |
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