(Pictured: M.J.Kang as Jo
Glenn Marc Silot as Gus)

"THE YOKO ONO PROJECT"
(Entered January 11, 2000)

The Yoko Ono Project opens January 13 in Toronto, Ontario. A copy script of the play will be available for online purchase after the show opens. The play's writer and co-director, Jean Yoon, will have details about that very soon.

Yoko told Toronto Star Entertainment Reporter, Peter Goddard, that Yoon is "courageous to do it. I'm not involved in it at all, but that doesn't mean I don't support it. I'm not a commercial figure. I'm a controversial figure." Yoon told Goddard, that the play "was something I wanted to do as an Asian-Canadian woman because so many Asian-Canadian women have heard (Yoko's) name used as a slur. Yoko-bashing is a sport amongst many because of the Beatle thing." Yoon: "John said it several times that Yoko Ono is the most famous unkown artist in the world. And she continues to be. I completely understand why John Lennon would be attracted to her. Anyone who has any respect for John as an artist, and not as a pop star, would understand that."

The play centers around three women who come to grips with their feelings about Yoko as they confront her art.

THE YOKO ONO PROJECT runs from January 13 to February 6 Previews January 11 & 12, 2000 at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace, 16 Ryerson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm Sunday at 2:30 pm.

Ticket prices are PWYC for previews $19 Tuesday to Thursday, $28 Friday and Saturday, with PWYC performances on Sunday afternoons.

Tickets available at the box office or call (416) 504 PLAY (7529).