The Return of SUICIDE FOREST

Ma-Yi Theater Company presents
The Bushwick Starr Production of
SUICIDE FOREST
by Haruna Lee
Directed by Aya Ogawa

Info & Tickets: Ma-YiTheatre.org/Shows/Suicide-Forest

February 25 - March 15, 2020
A.R.T./New York Theatres
Mezzanine Theatre
502 West 53rd Street

World premiere originally presented by The Bushwick Starr in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company

Returning by popular demand, following a sold-out run at The Bushwick Starr, Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest is a bilingual nightmare play excavating the Japanese American consciousness and its intimate relationship with sex, suicide, and identity.

In 1990’s Japan, a teenage girl 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 as they now 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.

Performance space for this production was subsidized by the A.R.T./New York Theatres Rental Subsidy Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).

For information on the A.R.T./New York Theatres including directions and accessibility information, please visit www.art-newyork.org/your-visit

Photos by Maria Baranova