Suicide Forest – Premiere

Date(s)/Time(s)
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - Sunday, March 17, 2019
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm

Booking Information
FREE | Reserve

Location
Bushwick Starr Map Unavailable

Suicide Forest is a bilingual nightmare play excavating the Japanese-American consciousness and its looming relationship with sex, suicide, and identity. In 1990’s Japan, a teenage girl grapples with her sexuality in a nightmarish, male-defined society as a salaryman desperately tries to escape his masochistic psyche. Both are clawing for their self-worth. When their two journeys collide, they expose their darkest desires fueled by shame as they now confront life and death with the notorious Suicide Forest looming over their imagination. Performed by a Japanese heritage cast, Suicide Forest breaks through the silence and submissiveness often associated with Japanese and Japanese American identity, examining the role of community and the inner struggles of emotional, psychic and social suicide through the playwright’s lived stories and inner landscape.

Premiering at the Bushwick Starr in 2019, in association with Ma Yi Theater.

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Photo by Sasha Arutyunova.

TEAM
Written by Kristine Haruna Lee
Directed by Aya Ogawa
Set design by Jian Jung
Light and video design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Sound design by Fan Zhang
Music composed by Jen Goma
Costume design by Alice Tavener
Produced by John Del Gaudio and Denise Shu Mei

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