Chorus Repertory Theatre
Nine Hills One Valley
Ratan Thiyam, writer & director

Fri, Nov 10, 8 pm

Sat, Nov 11, 8 pm

Venue: Zellerbach Hall A

Price: $24/$36/$48

What do these symbols mean?

Anyone fortunate enough to witness the luminous debut of composer-writer-director-choreographer Ratan Thiyam's Chorus Repertory Theatre at Cal Performances in 2000 will thrill to the news of a return visit by this renowned company from India. The 2006 tour features Thiyam's latest masterwork, Nine Hills One Valley, a haunting and poetic theatrical allegory confronting the turmoil that now consumes Thiyam's native Manipur. Here Thiyam asks: In the face of violence, venality, instability, and poverty, how do a people sustain themselves when their cultural traditions are cut off and lost? "A landmark cultural event. Visually arresting and beguilingly mythic...intensely theatrical" (The Washington Post).

Performed in Meitei with English supertitles

PATRON INFORMATION

Learn More! Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here. Podcast: ( Real One Player or Windows Media Player) In Cal Performances first ever podcast, UC Berkeley Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies professor Sudipto Chatterjee talks about Chorus Repertory Theatre's Nine Hills One Valley production. (Length: 10:18)

Education and Community Events:
Sightlines event
Fri, Nov 10, Zellerbach Hall
Post-performance discussion with Ratan Thiyam, artists, and moderator Sudipto Chatterjee, from the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. This Sightlines event is free to all event ticket holders.

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