{"id":358,"date":"2015-07-27T00:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2015-07-27T00:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:07:57","slug":"mulan-holding-up-half-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Mulan: Holding Up Half the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a title=\"Chinese Theatre Works\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesetheatreworks.org\/y\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Theatre Works<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 8th @ 2:00pm @ <a title=\"Flushing Town Hall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flushingtownhall.org\/event\/1b3a61da0e48dda63fa208cfeb470f7e\" target=\"_blank\">Flushing Town Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 13th (2 shows) @ <a title=\"National Puppetry Festival 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpuppetryfestival2015.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Puppetry Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Von der Mehden Hall, UConn, Storrs, CT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nChinese Theatre Works\u2019 new production, presents episodes from 2500 years of Chinese history, seen through the lives of four outstanding women warriors: Hua Mulan (5th Century), Hongxian (9th Century), She Saihua (12th Century), and Qiu Jin (early 20th Century). Episode from the lives of these four legendary women\u2019s stories are interspersed with vivid shadow sequences depicting the caustic effects of war on the social fabric, and with comic interludes on the 4 Confucian virtues that underlay proper woman\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Mulan: Holding Up Half the Sky seamlessly blends together live performance with a wide variety puppetry techniques\u2014traditional and modern rods and bunraku-style, hand puppets, direct screen and overhead projection shadows, and featuring a technique of \u201cfabric-fold\u201d puppetry pioneered by the Shanghai Puppet Theater. The text is presented in English and Mandarin, with excerpts from classical Chinese literature and opera sources) and is designed for both family and adult audiences. It is written and directed by Kuang-Yu Fong and Stephen Kaplin, with puppet and technical design by Stephen Kaplin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for more info:\u00a0\u00a0 <a title=\"Chinese Theatre Works\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesetheatreworks.org\/y\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Theatre Works<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chinese Theatre Works &nbsp; Aug. 8th @ 2:00pm @ Flushing Town Hall &nbsp; Aug. 13th (2 shows) @ National Puppetry Festival Von der Mehden Hall, UConn, Storrs, CT &nbsp; Chinese Theatre Works\u2019 new production, presents episodes from 2500 years of Chinese history, seen through the lives of four outstanding women warriors: Hua Mulan (5th [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takemikitamura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}