The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise

The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise

The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise

The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise

Overview

A man dreams that his girlfriend is dead. Not because he wants to kill her but because he imagines his life would be more meaningful to have a girlfriend who has died. A woman dreams she is riding the subway, forever. She arrives at a mysterious gathering deep underground, and when she returns to her real life, she finds that decades have gone by and her boyfriend is aged and dying. The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise is a modern folktale set against an urban landscape, about our collective longing for the extraordinary, and the mundanity of everyday life.

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Cautions

  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Fable/Folktale
  • Time Period: Contemporary, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Cast Attributes: Ensemble Cast, Multicultural Casting
  • Target Audience: Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)

Authors

Aya Ogawa

Aya Ogawa is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, translator and performer. As a playwright and director, her play Serendipity was the winner of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival and finalist at Humana Festival. Eating Dirt was produced at SoHo Rep, and she ...
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Toshiki Okada

Toshiki Okada was born in Yokohama in 1973 and formed the theater company 'chelfitsch' in 1997. Since then he has written and directed all of the company's productions, practicing a distinctive methodology for creating plays, and has come to be known for his use of hyper-coll ...
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