Noh Garden
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| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
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| Introduction | is a play written and performed in the style of Japanese Noh Drama. Although written for the stage, it is being filmed in Portland, Oregon, to broaden the audience for this unique interpretation of a biblical story and an ancient dramatic form. "Noh Garden" is written and directed by Ken Arnold; Matthew Smith, music director; Joan McMillen, composer. It is being filmed at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, SW 13th Avenue and Clay, Portland, OR. Ken Arnold is an award-winning playwright and poet, whose plays have been produced in the US and abroad. He was a fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, where he developed "She Also Dances," cited in Best Plays of 1983. A retired book publisher, he is also ordained in the Episcopal Church. Ken studies the traditional Japanese bamboo flute, the shakuhachi, as a student of Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin. |