Kazuko Hohki was born in Tokyo and came to England in 1978. She is a musician, animator, director, performer and storyteller who describes herself as a live artist because she adoopts a multi-artform approach to making her solo theatre shows. Before making her acclaimed solo work, Kazuko founded the Japanese female pop performance group Frank Chickens, which had an independent chart hit with We Are Ninja and has released five albums and toured world wide.
About the Show...
A multi-media solo show, the third part of an absorbing trilogy following Toothless and The Shining Princess. It tells the story of a Japanese office lady who is content with her single lifestyle, having abandoned any expectation of meeting "Mr Right". This is before she encounters Robin, an English University fellow, who she meets in Tokyo. They fall in love, get married, and move to England.
But married life is not what she expects. Every night the eccentric Englishman locks himself up in a room upstairs in their house. My Husband is a Spaceman is taken from an old Japanese folk tale of love between a peasant and a crane - based on Kazuko's experience (to some extent) of a cross-cultural relationship,loneliness and how to survive it.
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