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Photo Flash: Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST

By: Mar. 05, 2020
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Ma-Yi Theater Company's Suicide Forest is currently playing at A.R.T./New York Theatres Mezzanine Theatre. Directed by Aya Ogawa, Suicide Forest is a bilingual nightmare play excavating the Japanese-American consciousness and its intimate relationship with sex, suicide, and identity.

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In 1990's Japan, a teenage girl (Haruna Lee) 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, they 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. The play branches themes of intergenerational trauma, the psychic journey of the immigrant, the coming-of-age and ownership of one's sexual identity in a hyper-sexualized and male-centered world.

Photo Credit: Richard Termine

Photo Flash:  Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST  Image
Ako, Haruna Lee, Dawn Akemi Saito, Eddy Toru Ohno

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Ako, Haruna Lee, Dawn Akemi Saito

Photo Flash:  Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST  Image
Haruna Lee, Eddy Toru Ohno

Photo Flash:  Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST  Image
Haruna Lee, Eddy Toru Ohno

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Ako, Dawn Akemi Saito

Photo Flash:  Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST  Image
Haruna Lee, Dawn Akemi Saito, Ako

Photo Flash:  Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST  Image
Haruna Lee, Dawn Akemi Saito

Photo Flash:  Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST  Image
Dawn Akemi Saito, Haruna Lee, Eddy Toru Ohno, Aoi Lee

Photo Flash:  Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUICIDE FOREST  Image
Haruna Lee



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