Until Saturday March 21 2020
In 1990’s
Japan, a teenage girl grapples with her sexuality in a male-defined society as
a salaryman desperately tries to escape his masochistic psyche. Both are
clawing for their self-worth. When their 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 Asian American identity,
examining the role of community and the struggles of emotional, psychic and social
suicide through the playwright’s lived stories.
Performance
space for this production was subsidized by the A.R.T./New York Theatres Rental
Subsidy Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York
(A.R.T./New York).
