The Restaurant of Many Orders – When the hunter become the hunted

In one of his famous fables, Kenji Miyazawa, a Japanese poet disparaged particular human attitude and behaviours vis-à-vis environments. As a devoted Buddhist and vegetarian, arrogance and joy-hunting seemed not to his liking, and thus he expressed this through ‘The Restaurant of Many Orders’.

The plot starts with 2 arrogant hunters from the city who enjoy hunting animals just for the sake of fun. Wandering into the deep forest, both of them soon lost their way and their hunting dogs also perished, leaving them disorientated and frightened.  To their astonishment, they found a restaurant in the middle of the jungle. Being hungry and frightened, they entered the restaurant ‘of many orders’ where they find a lot of strange notes with instructions for them to follow. At first, they followed each and every instruction but later they found out that they are the one being ordered and will soon be served to the wild animals for food.

If you would like to know the ending of the story, you can watch the Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project  “Restaurant of Many Orders” this upcoming 26^th and 27^th October at Damansara Performing Art Centre. Focused on its theme “The relationship between Human and Nature”, the show is based on this tale and composed of contemporary and traditional dance, voice, songs and masks, in order to make audiences travel between the world of animals and the world of humans.

Having been described as “Physical Theatre”, this project inherits the one-and-only Hiroshi Koike style: mysterious, delusional and fun with highly skilled cross-genre artists. Being the first project after disbanding the world-recognized TARAHUMARA, Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project  explores the world after the great earthquake of Japan, bridging people to people, past and present, crossing the boundary of different arts, media and body.

This program is held in conjunction with 40^th year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation, presented by the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, jointly organized with Damansara Peforming Arts Centre.

Event: The Restaurant of Many Orders

Date: 26^th & 27^th October 2013

Pricing: RM 50 for adults

                RM25 for students and members

Website: www.dpac.com.my or www.kikh.com