Art Of The Day Weekly
#384 - from 16 April 2015 to 22 April 2015
Asia on stage
PARIS –Everyone knows the Mahabharata since the historical performance by Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord theatre. But Asian theatre is a lot more than an Indian epic in which armies of monkeys follow in the steps of Vishnu. It is also the minimalism of the Japanese nô theatre or, on the contrary, the Baroque flamboyance of the Opera of Beijing, which Mao’s Cultural Revolution tried in vain to erase all traces of. The ambitious aim of this exhibition is to cover two thousand years of Asian theatre, from the shadow theatre to animated movies with, - on the side, the unclassifiable figure of Mata Hari, a bayadere and a spy who –should you have forgotten – disclosed her identity in the library of the musée Guimet, during a famous evening back in 1905.
• Du Nô à Mata-Hari, 2000 ans de théâtre en Asie at the musée Guimet, from 15 April to 31 August 2015.