The Cultch to Holdover EMPIRE OF THE SON

The Cultch is proud to announce that the performance run for the world premiere of Tetsuro Shigematsu's Empire of the Son, October 6-17, has sold out. The production, a story about two generations of CBC broadcasters and the radio silence between them, will be held over from Tuesday, October 20 to Saturday, October 24.

Written by and starring Tetsuro Shigematsu (former host of CBC's "The Roundup"), Empire of the Son is the story of his personal relationship with his father who has recently passed away. Separated by a generation but connected by blood, Tetsuro and his father spoke different languages and possessed different values, but what kept them apart was their similarities.

Based on a series of audio interviews, Empire of the Son uses a camera, miniatures and a projector to magically conjure entire worlds: from the ashes of Hiroshima to the glass towers of Vancouver and beyond. It is a unique theatrical hybrid that combines the cinematography of film being screened at the moment it is being shot with the raw immediacy of a performance piece that is intimately connected to real life in real time.

As a funny, poignant story of one immigrant family and their intergenerational conflicts, this one-man show blurs the borders between artistic disciplines and continents. A deeply immersive experience, Empire of the Son is at once uncannily familiar yet exhilaratingly new, as it marshals the tiniest of objects to focus on life's biggest questions.