Sundown at La MaMa E.T.C.

Yara Arts Group presents Sundown, by Watoku Ueno, at La MaMa E.T.C's First Floor Theater from the 28 Apr - 14 May 2006.

Sundown The play will be interdisciplinary, using elements of theater, music and dance. It will portray Japan in one of its most turbulent times of transition, from the Edo period to the Meiji period, when Western ideas clashed, filtered or were integrated into the Japanese tradition. It will portray Hikoma Ueno as a chemist possessed by photography, who refined a formula for developing a picture (wet plate) as part of his search for a perfect artistic expression.

Sundown's cast of seven - still to be announced - will be directed by Watoku Ueno.

The show is to be performed in English and Japanese, in the signature Yara style that permits all audiences to understand.