The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - review

King, Edinburgh

Toru Okada

lost his job, his cat and his wife. All his life has become a kind of absence, and it is the void at its center. A man alone and isolated in the big city. But one night he receives a strange phone call and a visitor to turn your life upside down. Toru Okada is simply a loss of more experienced - the loss of his mind - or is finally awakening to the world around him becomes a psychic detective in his own life seemingly mundane

Lewis Carroll had his rabbit hole, and the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has a dry, well, a dark place that is a well of loneliness, but with the possibility of transformation. Looking for the disappearance of his wife, Mr. Okada has to go to the same order to understand and take responsibility for their own past and his country. In a scenario that has the makings of a thriller, the search for truth leads him Okada against a teenager obsessed with death, a survivor of the military exploits of Japan in Manchuria, a prostitute of the mind, and brother his wife, a sinister political right believes that the nation has been neutered.

• Adapter and director Stephen Earnhart
• took seven years to Murakami mysterious acclaimed epic for the stage and it has certainly thrown around her and recorded live music, films, cinema, dance, Butoh, puppets , dance, lighting style Robert Wilson, Robert Lepage changes in style, layered look Complicity and David Lynchian sensibility. There are many times when it is strangely surreal and painfully beautiful:. Women dressed in a simple piece of human skin moves around the stage, film takes us into the dark memory hotels

However, although it is still visually amazing, totally uninvolving. All the emotional impact is suppressed by a show that continues to demonstrate its expertise. He is in love with all the tools that most theaters - high and low technology - but do not know how to use the service of narrative and literal sense. The result is a show without substance: a lot of light and sound enough, and time to go wow. But beneath the glitter is a void, an empty well.

Rating: 2 / 5

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