CHO CHO

2013

Cho Cho is a modern telling of the Madame Butterfly story written by Australian Playwright Daniel Keene. This new bi lingual production is in association with The National Theatre of China, Playking Productions and The Arts Centre Melbourne. The features new music by Chinese composer Cheng Jin and puppetry.

“Director Peter Wilson (the puppetry genius behind King Kong) has invested the production with the lurid outlines of a serious cartoon, generating heightened performances, distilling and amplifying the pitilessness of the tragedy and drawing out the exploitation that brings it on.” The Age -Cameron Woodhead… Oct 4th 2013

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/stage/theatre-review-cho-cho-20131003-2uxpa.html#ixzz2i1gcD5no