Abstract
The Brandeis Theater Company (BTC) will end its 2007-08 season with a premiere of a new adaptation of “The Orphan of Zhao” (March 27-April 6). Performances will feature original music composed by faculty member Yu-Hui Chang and performed by visiting artists Jiebing Chen (erhu) and Yangqin Zhao (hammered dulcimer), as well as Mary Ruth Ray (viola) and Josh Gordon (cello) of Brandeis’s own Lydian String Quartet and Timothy Feeney (percussion).
The production, directed by Eric Hill, Barbara Sherman ('54) & Malcolm L. Sherman Professor of Theater Arts, and Naya Chang, a graduate student in theater arts, is a legendary folktale from the Far East surrounding the history of an important orphan.
Commissioned by the Brandeis Theater Company and the MusicUnitesUS