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Mesujika DOE
The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF), YUBIWA Hotel & U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network present a work-in-progress showing of "Mesujika DOE" a Japanese/English bilingual play co-written and co-directed by an internationally recognized young Japanese woman playwright/director, Shirotama Hitsujiya, and an award winning American playwright, Trista Baldwin.
"Mesujika DOE" is a cross-cultural research project on women's issues as well as a play. Building on Baldwin's original concept, the play pushes the theme of mutable identity and sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective into a new realm by incorporating insights and inspiration gained in Japan and the U.S. from workshops and field research on immigrant women through round table discussions, site-visits and interviews. "Mesujika DOE" sheds new light on various issues behind the struggles of language and national identity as well as on universal issues of gender, sexuality, family, children, society and culture.
Synopsis: Driving alone on a road, Jane (an American expatriate living in Japan) hits a deer. Leaving the doe to die, she returns to her home in Hokkaido seemingly unscathed. But Jane is haunted by the mysterious event. What happened on the road? What did she leave to die? The doe calls to her like a siren, and Jane's pursuit of the deer becomes a pursuit of her own identity in a foreign land. When her Japanese husband appears, she veers through a series of violent scenarios as she pushes for her own independence.
These performances are presented in association with Theatre of Yugen.
"Mesujika DOE" will premiere at SFIAF in May 2012.
"Mesujika DOE" is funded in part by The Saison Foundation, The Agency for Cultural Affairs-Government of Japan and the Asahi Beer Arts Foundation.
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2840 Mariposa Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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