Lost in a Flurry of Cherry Blossoms

Project Partner:
Granary Theatre

Contact:
www.granary.ie

Date: 22 – 23 March 2005
Venue: Granary Theatre

Project Description:
The Tokyo Engeki Ensemble came to Cork for the first time with internationally acclaimed extravaganza of passion. Director Tsunetoshi Hirowatari has won an unrivalled reputation over the last 45 years creating visually stunning and physically engrossing theatre productions.

When a bandit, living in a grove of cherry trees, wins a woman in a duel, little does he know the extremes to which his new conquest will go. Driven by lust for the woman and her commands, he kills all his wives except the last, whom he imprisons as her slave. Yet the woman demands more. First the heads of prostitutes, then the heads of noblemen, which she toys with while pondering the spirit of a woman….