2017

Power and Folly: Japanese Satire for the 21st Century

Guest artists in residence Shigeyama Akira and Shigeyama Dōji. This thematic program featured the traditional play, Two Great Lords (Futari Daimyō, translated by Julie A. Iezzi); a new kyōgen play by Shigeyama Dōji, Two Yamabushi (Futari Yamabushi, translated by Julie A. Iezzi); and a new kyōgen, Derailed, set in Hawaiʻi and dealing with the controversial rail project (written by Matthew Kelty). Read program here.