7 April 2022
'How Was It For You?' inspired by 'Vita Sexualis'- performed in Tokyo on 19 and 20 May 2022
Categorised under: Events, Scholarships
Composer and Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s new original musical drama is inspired by ŌGAI Mori’s novel Vita Sexualis. Ōgai was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet.
The musical drama will be performed in Tokyo on 19 and 20 May 2022!
“Stumbling across the long-forgotten diary of an ancestor, a young woman is disappointed to find she can’t understand the written Japanese.
She asks her cousin in Japan to help her read it, only to find the book is not so much a diary, but rather the ancestor’s attempts to write about his sex life. Embarrassed, but curious, the cousins read on. But has much changed since then? Do they find it any easier to find answers to their burning questions, to share their private thoughts and experiences?”
音楽劇 How Was It For You? ~もうひとつの『ヰタ・セクスアリス』~ | Peatix
Here you can see a flyer about the production.
One of Fran’s previous projects was an award-winning, site-specific opera inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki’s novel The Key. Told through an exciting combination of Japanese and Western art forms, audiences are invited to peer into the private lives of a complex family.