North American Premiere
By Sophocles, Translation by Shigetake Yaginuma

Famed Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi creates a new version of this fabled mythology, looking at the ancient play through the prism of Japanese culture. He turns the stage into a flowing river of water, known in many spiritual beliefs to separate the world of the living from that of the dead. This fresh take presents a riveting play about loss and memorialization in a way that is both timeless and timely, mixing the foundational principles of Greek tragedy, Japanese Noh theatre, Indonesian shadow play, and the Buddhist philosophy to negotiate the boundaries of intercultural encounters while creating a new theatrical universe of globalized proportions.  The performance is in Japanese with English supertitles.