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Dateline:
24th March, 2011
EIF Announces 2011 Programme
The Edinburgh International Festival, which this year runs from 12th
August to 4th September, has announced its programme which focuses on
work from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam: a "journey
of discovery and revelation in which the finiest arists of these Asian
countries and cultures share their viruosity and skill with those of
us in the Far West."
Dance
13th - 15th August
The National Ballet of China
The Peony Pavilion
Choreographer Fei Bo
Festival Theatre
19th - 21st August
Eun-M Ahn Company (Korea)
Princess Bari
Choreographer Eun-Me Ahn, scriptwriter Yong-Gu Park, composer Young-Gyu
Jang
Edinburgh Playhouse
26th - 28th August
Scottish Ballet with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
New work
Choreographer Jorma Elo
Music by Mozart and Steve Reich
AND
Song of the Earth
Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan
Music by Gustav Mahler
Edinburgh Playhouse
26th - 29th August
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble (India)
Sriyah
Choreographer Sarupa Sen
King's Theatre
1st - 3rd September
Ea Sola (Vietnam)
Drought and Rain
King's Theatre
1st - 3rd September
Shen Wei Dance Arts (New York)
Re-Triptych
Edinburgh Playhouse
Theatre
13th - 16th August
Mokwha Repertory Company (Korea)
The Tempest
A blending of Shakespeare and a true Korean story
In Korean with English surtitles
King's Theatre
13th - 16th August
Contemporary Legend Theatre (China)
King Lear
Written, directed and performed by Wu Hsing-Kuo, adapted from Shakespeare
In Mandarin with English surtitles
Royal Lyceum Theatre
20th - 24th August
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By Stephen Earnhart and Greg Pierce, based on the novel by Haruki
Murakami
In Engish and Japanese
King's Theatre
21st August - 3rd September (see EIF Programme for dates of each
part)
Dash Arts
One Thousand and One Nights (Parts I and II)
Dramatised and directed by Tim Supple; stories adapted by Hana Al-Shayk
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Opera
19th - 21st August
Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe
The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan
Stories adapted from Zhu Sheng-Hao's Chinese translation of Hamlet
In Mandarin with English surtitles
Festival Theatre
25th & 27th August
Vlaamse Opera
Semiramide
By Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Gaetano Rossi
In Italian with English surtitles
Festival Theatre
1st - 3rd September
Mariinsky Opera
Die Frau ohne Schatten
By Richard Strauss, libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal
Sung in German with English Surtitles
Festival Theatre
Times may vary from day to day. Please see the EIF website
for details.
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