Co-Created by Anju Singh, Derek Chan, Valerie Sing Turner
Anju Singh | Lead Artist (Video Art + Sculpture), Co-Director
Derek Chan | Co-Director, Dramaturg
Valerie Sing Turner | Co-Director, Dramaturg
A Hydra Journal of the Plague Year is a multi-channel audio-visual media arts sculptural theatre installation based on the 2021 premiere online production, A Journal of the Plague Year, conceived and directed by Colleen Lanki (1965 - 2023). A Journal of the Plague Year is an English-language translation of the play, Ekibyō ryūkōki (疫病流行記,1975), written by Terayama Shūji (1935 - 1983) in collaboration with Kishida Rio (1946 - 2003), co-translated by Tsuneda Keiko and Colleen Lanki.
Acknowledgements/Credits
Exhibition co-created by Anju Singh, Derek Chan, and Valerie Sing Turner. Original 2021 English-language premiere online production conceived and directed by Colleen Lanki (1965 - 2023), founder and Artistic Director of Tomoe Arts Society.
Original play, Ekibyō ryūkōki (疫病流行記, 1975) written by Terayama Shūji (1935 - 1983) in collaboration with Kishida Rio (1946 - 2003), and translated by Tsuneda Keiko and Colleen Lanki.
Produced by Visceral Visions and presented by Powell Street Festival Society and Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, in association with Tomoe Arts Society and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and City of Vancouver Communities and Artists Shifting Culture grant.
Crew
Jae Woo Kang | Video Assistant
Mariessa McLeod | Audio Assistant
Reylinn McGrath | Installation Technician
Simon (Sai) Grefiel | Sculpture Build Assistant
Featuring archival footage from the 2021 online premiere production of A Journal of the Plague Year, a translation by Tsuneda Keiko and Colleen Lanki based on Ekibyō ryūkōki (1975), written by Terayama Shūji (1935 - 1983) in collaboration with Kishida Rio (1946 - 2003).
Cast
Alisa Lindley Choe, Forgotten Woman, Slide Projector Vendor’s Wife
Anthony F. Ingram* Manager, Southern Slide Projector Vendor, Dentist, Disinfector, Mr. Dodgson
Aryo Khakpour Komeo
Brent Hirose* Taxidermist, Burmese Turtle, Master, Enema Man
Chu-Lynne Ng German Measles Mayo, Taxidermist’s Wife, Disinfector
David Bloom* Puppeteer, Police Detective
Howard Dai Ratcatcher Son, Man in High Boots, Self-Confined Man
Jesse Del Fierro Mugio
Montserrat Videla Samper Young Woman
Panta Mosleh* Kaimi, Fly-Swatting Woman, Dentist’s Patient
Raïna von Waldenburg Gaga, Ratcatcher Mother, Servant
Valerie Sing Turner* Mariko (owner of the cabaret “Trading Vessel Pago Pago”)
*members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association
