“An Evening of Bunraku – Traditional Japanese Puppetry”

Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the Virginia Tech Department of Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures and John & Mihoko Lanier Foundation is sponsoring a special event at the Lyric, a traditional Bunraku Japanese Puppet Show!

"An Evening of Bunraku--Traditional Japanese Puppetry."
BY Bunraku Bay Puppet Theater

Performing the following pieces:

Kotobuki Shiki Sanbaso
Yaoya Oshichi
Meoto Lion Dance

Also featured will be a screening of their film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year, "Kaiju Bunraku." The film has been well received at films festivals around the world in the past year.

A Question and Answer session will follow the performance.

The crew for the performance (subject to possible change):

Martin Holman
Eric Lancaster
Taylor Morrow
Ryan Tiefenthaler
Andrew Cooper

The show will be free and open to the public, and is sponsored by Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the Virginia Tech Department of Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures and John & Mihoko Lanier Foundation