Reading of Suicide Forest

Date(s)/Time(s)
Monday, September 24, 2018
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Booking Information
Free | Reserve

Location
The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts Map Unavailable

This reading of Suicide Forest is co-sponsored with the NYU English Department’s Program in Dramatic Literature and NYU Gallatin and is free and open to the public. Suicide Forest premieres at the Bushwick Starr in Spring 2019.

About
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.

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