When a chance meeting reunites three old school friends, now making their living as a struggling writer, a psychiatrist and a drag artist, they are all too eager to get reaquainted. But as the stories they tell each other become more and more surreal – from unrequited passions and split personalitities to male eunuchs and escaped Japanese Emperors – they start to question their own and each other's sanity with hilarious consequences.
Designer
Shoji Kokami?s work THE ANGELS WITH CLOSED EYES was first seen in the UK in 1991 as part of the Japan Festival. It was a Japanese language production presented at the Mermaid Theatre in London, St.Bride?s Centre in Edinburgh and Stranmillis House Theatre in Belfast. Because so many members of the British audience were eager to see his production in English, Kokami became determined to make this possible. In 1997, Shoji came to London for a year, studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama as an Arts Fellow of the Japanese Government. Learning alongside aspiring and talented British actors, Shoji was able to appreciate the cultural differences between Japanese and British theatre. Through joining forces with The Bush Theatre, he is now ready to realise his dream of directing British actors in London for the first time.
