Tsunagu/Connect Live
Tsunagu/Connect Live
23 - 30 April 2022
Shoreditch Town Hall
380 Old Street
London
EC1V 9LT
Four Japanese women are your tour guides on a kaleidoscopic journey across continents and decades, from Shōwa era Japan to the bedsits of 90’s London, via the Empire Windrush’s final voyage and present-day immigration nightmares.
Memories. Fears. Aspirations. The women reveal the complex, multi-layered reality of migrants reconciling with rootlessness.
"What price must we pay to create a third space, in neither one nation nor the other, where we finally have room to be ourselves?”
Where exhibition meets performance, Tsunagu/Connect Live is an immersive promenade adventure, inspired and informed by the stories of women who were born in Japan but who have settled in the UK since 1945.
Promenade performance with limited seating available
Tickets: £16 (£12 concessions)
Running Time: Approx. 75 mins
Age Guidance: 12+
Trigger Warning: Contains some swearing, mild drug references, outdated views (including racism) presented in a historical context
The Cast
Tomoko Komura
Meg Kubota
Yuki Sutton
You-Ri Yamanaka
Creatives
Co-Author and Director: Kumiko Mendl
Co-Author and Director: Kazuko Hohki
Dramaturg and Contributing Writer: Stewart Melton
Designer: TK Hay
Lighting Designer: Nao Nagai
Sound Designer: Tingying Dong
Movement Director: Sachi Kimura
Production Manager: Anna Smith
Stage Manager: Zoe Smith