The Buddha My Body - A Palimpsest Runs August 20- August 23 At Fortyfive Downstairs

Tony Yap Company and MAV Australia and Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea present the Australian premiere of The Buddha My Body - a Palimpsest.

"Without desire, there is no going and coming. Without going and coming, there is no death and birth. Without death and birth, there is no this world and the other world or the world between them. All the sadness ends at this moment." Won Young-Oh

The Buddha My Body- a Palimpsest investigates the processes of attachment, suffering and silence.

The characters float within memory and wander through their daily lives, wafting in and out between the two. 'My memories, her memories, mother's memories, and the man's memories, engaging with one another trying to find the origin of existence. This work is not a play of aesthetic exercises. It is an inquiry into what is forgotten in daily life, of the things beyond existence. The dramatic text of the author Hyun-woo Kim Transforms into a spatial language of body and sound.'

The Buddha My Body - A Palimpsest is an eastern perspective on corporeal memory; the body with memory and the body without memory.

"When my body cannot remember me, the watch stops at 10:10." Won Young-Oh

DIRECTOR: Won Young-Oh
PERFORIVIERS: Tony Yap, Lee lee-Hyun, Agung Gunawan, Lim So-Young, Lee Eun-A, Yun Sang-Don, Eom lu-Young
COMPOSERS/MUSICIANS: Madeleine Flynn,Tim Humphrey
INSTALLATION ARTIST: Naomi Ota
WRITER: Lee Hyun Woo
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Yoon Kwang Duk

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