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Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West

Chicago Premiere
BY NAOMI IIZUKA
directed by Lisa Portes

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Concerning Strange Devices from
the Distant West
Performance Calendar

Jan. 24 - April 14, 2013
previews 1/15 - 1/23

Running time:
Approximately 90 minutes,
with no intermission

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This sexy, multi-faceted puzzle of a play travels from East to West and across time, exploring provocative themes in both epic scope and human scale. In the 1880s, a Victorian woman visiting Japan is fascinated by a new invention — the camera — that allows people to own images of distant lands they never dreamed they would be able to see. In modern-day Tokyo, a collector navigates shifting relationships in search of physical memories of the past. Along the way we gaze as if through a lens at the mysterious intersection of art and authenticity, where very little is what it appears to be.


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"Like all good plays, it's a tough one to summarize ... taut and well executed [with] epic scope ... marvelous and original." — SFist.com