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Reviews of Hoichi the Earless
C Venues Daily Reviews Sheet
5-9 August 2019
//What makes the show particularly accessible to the foreign audiences is its focus on music, which largely fills the show. Blending cultures, the Hong Kong-based company Theatre Ronin use traditional Chinese Nanguan music – performed live at all times – as the backdrop for their Japanese tale. It is simultaneously calming and frightful, creating a mysterious tmosphere suited for a story involving ghosts and graveyards.//
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Hoichi the Earless
mumbletheatre.net
9 Aug 2019
Damian Beeson Bullen
Script: ★★★★ Stagecraft: ★★★★
Performance: ★★★★ S.O.D: ★★★★★
//The best theatre at the Fringe, the most diverse especially, comes from C venues. Hoichi the Earless stood out of the program at once, a Japanese folk-tale I’d come across with some wonder during my studies into oriental literature.//
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Hoichi the Earless
mumbletheatre.net
9 Aug 2019
Darkchat
//Themes of humility, vanity, greed and hypocrisy are explored to quietly devastating effect. A beautiful, understated and powerful treat//
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