The Dark Master
\nby Kuro Tanino
\nNiwa Gekidan Penino
\nSpace Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
\nOctober 29. Bookings 131 246 or ozasiafestival.com.au
\nTickets: $ 35 – $59. Duration : 90 minutes (no interval)
\nUntil October 31.<\/p>\n
A young backpacker steps into a run-down bistro in Osaka looking for a meal and his life changes. The misanthropic chef who serves him a delicious omelette persuades, cajoles and compels him to run the business for him.<\/p>\n
Using a cordless earpiece (the audience also has a headphone link) he instructs the unworldly young man in the art of cooking, watching him from the attic through hidden cameras in the bistro. In no time our hero becomes a master cook. As the food is prepared the audience is savouring every aroma, seeing and hearing that his every move and culinary decision is dictated by the Dark Master.<\/p>\n
Japanese writer and director Kuro Tanino is a leading exponent of the theatrical hyper-real. Like The Dark Inn<\/em>, seen in OzAsia in 2017, The Dark Master<\/em> is part fable, part dream play, part David Lynch surrealism.<\/p>\n Takuya Kamiike\u2019s fastidiously detailed set is a simulacrum bistro complete with kitchen sink, superbly lit by Masayoki Abe. Susumu Ogata and Koichiro F.O. Pereira, as sorcerer and apprentice, give effortless performances, supported by a procession of customers, a sex worker and a sinister Chinese gangster.<\/p>\n Trained as a psychiatrist, Tanino is a truly original theatre maker seamlessly blending the literal, the psychological and the archetypal unconscious. His plays are funny, sinister, shocking; both unpredictable and inevitable. The Dark Master<\/em> is another OzAsia highlight.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Dark Master serves up a surreal, dreamy feast for the senses\u201d, The Australian<\/em>, October 31, 2019, p.14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dark Master by Kuro Tanino Niwa Gekidan Penino Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. October 29. Bookings 131 246 or ozasiafestival.com.au Tickets: $ 35 – $59. Duration : 90 minutes (no interval) Until October 31. A young backpacker steps into a run-down bistro in Osaka looking for a meal and his life changes. The misanthropic chef who serves him a delicious omelette persuades, cajoles and compels him to run the business for him. Using a cordless earpiece (the audience also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,10,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-archive","category-fringe","category-international","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}