Astro Boy and the God of Comics Honors Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka
The Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW Washington, DC 20005)
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- $33.00
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The last date listed for Astro Boy and the God of Comics was Friday March 23, 2012 / 8:30pm.
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4 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Excellent performance and staging. Very imaginative way to tell the story.Written on Feb 21 2012
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Curiouz Jorge
I was expecting a more campy 60's-Japanese parody, but i still enjoyed the show. Was very creative with the live drawings and use of film and other visuals. At the same time, those seem to lag sometimes and lots of awkward death time. Telling the story backwards was also a bit annoying, cause it was funny at first, but the 2nd part wasn't funny. So, if they did it chronologically, it would have been slow at the start and funny at the end.Written on Mar 15 2012
overall, was very interesting play and something different to see.
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Goldstar Member
More serious that we expected but so creative and well done.Written on Mar 15 2012
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More Information About Astro Boy and the God of Comics
Website
http://www.studiotheatre.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=2917
Description
Astro Boy and the God of Comics, created and directed by Georgetown professor Natsu Onoda Power, combines the life of seminal manga artist Osamu Tezuka with the history of Japanese animation and the fictional world of his greatest creation: Astro Boy, a crime-fighting boy robot. It also features on-stage drawing.
Artistic Team
Natsu Onoda Power- Director/ Creator
Luciana Stecconi- Set Design
Andrew Griffin- Light Design
Frank Labovitz- Costume Design
Evan Rogers- Sound Design
Jared Mezzocchi- Projections Design
Cast
Joe Brack
Jamie Gahlon
Lee Liebeskind
Karen O' Connell
Betsy Rosen
JB Tadena
Kristin Watson
Clark Young
About Natsu Onoda Power
Natsu Onoda Power directed Young Jean Lee’s play Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven in last year’s Studio 2ndStage season. As a co-founder and the Artistic Director of Chicago’s Live Action Cartoonists, she directed SCIENCE (FICTION), are you my negative space?, performance of sleep in one long act without intermission, Stitched, and The Revenge of Poisoned Ladies. Her design work includes costumes and sets for Metamorphosis with Synetic Theatre and sets for bobrauschenbergamerica with Forum Theatre. Onoda Power is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, where her shows include adaptations ofMadness and Civilization (Michel Foucault) and The Omnivores’ Dilemma (Michael Pollen). Other shows at Georgetown include The T Party, Trees and Ghosts, and Swimmy and Other Stories. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and is the author of God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post World War II Manga, based on her dissertation.
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