| Project Overview: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a large-scale multimedia theatrical spectacle based on the best seller by internationally acclaimed Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. While several of Mr. Murakami's short stories have been adapted for stage and screen, this marks the first time he's sanctioned the adaptation of any of his full-length works for any medium. The bi-lingual play will first be presented in New York at 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center in the fall of 2008 as an international collaboration between Western and Japanese actors, puppeteers, musicians and designers before traveling to international destinations. |
| Inspired by Murakami’s visionary style, writer/director Stephen Earnhart merges live performance, live music, dance and Bunraku puppetry with on-stage projections of video, anime, and holographic technology to tell the surreal story of a man lost in a world of his own dreams. Mr. Earnhart (formerly Director of Production for Miramax Films) began his adaptation in 2005 while living in Tokyo and conferring with Mr. Murakami, continued his script work at the Edward Albee playwright residency in 2006 and has made several subsequent trips to Japan to shoot visual materials and to collaborate with members of Tokyo’s theatre community. In the spring of 2007, he co-wrote a new draft with fellow Albee-resident Gregory Pierce, and began working with Tokyo-based translator Keiko Tsuneda. |
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