Kwaidan
by Lafcadio Hearn

Adapted by Richard Henrich and Izumi Ashizawa
Directed by Izumi Ashizawa

May 29 – June 22, 2014
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Inspired by Lafcadio Hearn’s book “Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things,” first published in 1904, visual theater director Izumi Ashizawa brings to life a series of Japanese ghost stories. In Japanese, Kwaidan means “weird tales,” but what Hearn has done goes beyond the supernatural. Over several years, this Western author who adopted Japan as his homeland, transformed kwaidan into a unique collection, where ghostly sketches of an unreal world meet a sense of spiritual reality.

The Wedding Dress
by Nelson Rodrigues

Directed by Rebecca Holderness
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February 14 – March 9, 2014

Two sisters. One man. A car accident. Those are some of the explosive ingredients in The Wedding Dress, by Nelson Rodrigues, who is widely regarded today as Brazil’s greatest playwright. The plot shifts quickly from reality, to the past, and to the imagination of the main character’s confused mind – in a way that was so revolutionary in 1942 that it changed forever the way theater was presented in Brazil.