What is Toothless?
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What is Toothless? |
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Kazuko Hohki, leader (We have fine culture of respecting the old) of FRANK CHICKENS, presents a comic elegy to her mother Yukiko, who was a popular priestess/entertainer in modern Japan. She uses video, computer animation, songs, wind-up toys and stick puppets in a witty and poignant examination of her relationship with her mother, her country and life and death. Hilarious, moving and unexpected, directed by Tim Hope, music by Clive Bell & Tim Hope.
TIME OUT
Critics' Choice, Oct. 99 (British Festival of Visual Theatre)
THE TIMES
Delightfully forthright. A complex and fascinating exercise in modern tragi-comedy.
GLASGOW HERALD
Genuinely moving. Most poignant was her honesty with us. Often hilarious, in the forthright narrative of her mother's life and death.
TIME OUT
Hohki effortlessly neutralises the horror that is the fringe solo show by arraying on stage the means to conjure the cast of characters whose story she tells. She locates in the toy room of her imagination a coyly poetic means of sharing her mother's story and casting light into the mysteries of life, death and stick puppetry.
THE WIRE
Great storytelling; Toothless has moments when fantasy and reality collide with shocking effect.