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The Dark Master, Kuro Tanino

Onsite VR Contemporary Theatre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Peter Eckersall
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Abstract

In Kuro Tanino’s play The Dark Master (Daaku Masudaa), a person arrives at a rundown restaurant (yOshokuya) in working-class Osaka and orders typical Japanese comfort food from a crochety old “master.” Kuro’s 2020 VR theatre version of the play, Daaku Masudaa VR, reanimates the atmospheric setting of the restaurant and heightens its grotesque sensibilities. Using the extreme disorientation and intimacy of VR goggles and headphones, he creates threatening feelings of immersion.

Type
Critical Acts
Information
TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 174 - 178
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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