CCWOC::: BEET part 01

Beet: A performance project utilizing video installation, traditional Noh and Kabuki theatre techniques and contemporary physical theatre to relate the World War II era story of a Japanese man classified as an Enemy Alien and forced out of British Columbia to work on the sugar beet farms of Southern Manitoba. The project's authors, Brenda McLean, a sessional instructor in the Theatre Department, and Kaoru Ryan Klatt, a student of Fine Arts whose great-grandfather's experiences inspired Beet, also grapple with the issues of loss of tradition and assimilation into white culture as well as the small-scale effects of a large-scale war.website: blog: