Text Box: Staged Reading of The Elephant by Minoru Betsuyaku translated by Roger Pulvers Directed by Sonoko Kawahara  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the play and playwright  by Roger Pulvers

 

 

 

 

 

2008 Coming soon

This presentations is a part of New York Theater Workshop’s Suspect Abroad Project,

in association with Japan Playwrights Association.

Text Box: February 11th Monday 7:30pm  New York Theater Workshop, The 4th Street Theater 83 East 4th Street (between Bowery & 2nd Avenue) Man:         I am a fish dangling by my tears…  Man:         Don’t you just want to lay down and die without causing any trouble to anybody?  Patient:     Not me. I wanna be killed before I die.   Set in Hiroshima,  it tells of the indomitable spirit of a radiation victim, who does not want people to forget what happened to him there…in a world where everyone else wishes to relegate it all to the past. Betsuyaku, a pioneer of the post-1960 Japanese Angura (Underground) and Shôgekijô (Little Theater) Movements, is one of Japan’s most important contemporary playwrights.  His work shows influences of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.   The Elephant  is his milestone play, first directed by the now internationally known Tadashi Suzuki, premiered in Japan in 1962,  The play effectively launched the new countercultural Little Theater Movement. This is the first English presentation of this play to the New York audience.  It is made possible by the support of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Manhattan Community Arts Fund.

 Admission is free

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