Disembodied voices in Braunschweig's virtual Hanjo

By Katherine Syer, 12 June 2021

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“we register that what we see and hear work against each other or are misaligned”

Reviewed at Staatstheater, Braunschweig on 5 June 2021

Hosokawa, Hanjo

Braunschweig State Theatre

Alexis Agrafiotis, Conductor

Isabel Ostermann, Director

Stephan von Wedel, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Jelena Banković, Hanako

Milda Tubelytė, Jitsuko Honda

Maximilian Krummen, Yoshio

Staatsorchester Braunschweig

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Katherine Syer

Katherine Syer is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor, public scholar, and dramaturg following a teaching career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UCLA