SF Intl. Arts Festival: ShadowLight Productions "The Good for Nothing Lover"
Cowell Theatre
San Francisco, CA
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SF Intl. Arts Festival: ShadowLight Productions "The Good for Nothing Lover"
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San Francisco International Arts Festival
The seventh annual San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) kicks off on May 19 and runs through May 30 with more than 40 performances and two major visual arts exhibits being presented by 32 San Francisco organizations at multiple venues throughout the City. With its annual theme, "The Truth in Knowing/Now: Threads in Time, Place, Culture," SFIAF 2010 will include numerous World Premieres, US Debuts & International Collaborations featuring leading artists from the Bay Area performing and exhibiting with and alongside their international peers from around the world. This year's festival includes dance, music, theatre and visual arts and events will take place at four venues at the Fort Mason Center (the Cowell & Southside Theatres and the Herbst and Festival Pavilions) as well as at Monaghan's Bar, swissnex/San Francisco, Theater Artaud, the Garage, the Herbst Theatre and Union Square.

"The Good-for-Nothing Lover: A Concert Reading with Shadows" is a unique blend of shadow theatre, poetry reading, movement theatre and live music, inspired by a folk love song cycle of the same title from the Ming Dynasty (16th century China) translated in the late fifties by the Bay Area beat poets C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh. Driven by the dual origin of these poems, the project will pay homage to both the Beat era and the Ming Dynasty incorporating a stand up bass and a guqin (traditional Chinese 7-string fretless zither) player, low-tech shadow theatre technique and high-tech video projection as well as singing and the spoken word in Chinese and English.

"The Good-for-Nothing Lover" will examine an archetypal state of love and human relations, which are as true today as when the words were first written centuries ago. Taking the cue from Kwok and McHugh, the show will explore age-old subject of love in a fun and whimsical spirit.

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Cowell Theatre
Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123
United States
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