Kristine's play SUICIDE FOREST directed by Aya Ogawa and in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company will have its world premiere at The Bushwick Starr in Feb 2019. Find out more about the production and collaborators here.
Photo by Aaron Leutzen courtesy of LALA Festival
Kristine and Jen just performed a new snippet of their ongoing collaboration plural (love) at LALA Festival in Minneapolis, now in its second year of sharing local and national experimental theater with its communities. Inspired by the landscape and visuals of the city, they went midnight flower-picking and shared their work at the Red Eye Theater to a brand new audience. They will continue their collaboration on this piece through Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, with a work-in-process showing slated for January 2019... More info on that soon!
Kristine Haruna Lee and Aya Ogawa receive a Map Fund Grant 2018 as well a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the World Premiere of SUICIDE FOREST by Lee and directed by Ogawa, premiering at The Bushwick Starr in Feb 2019. Read more about the award and project here.
Tickets now available for MEMORY RETROGRADE at Ars Nova's Makers Lab!
Thursday December 14 @ 8pm
Friday December 15 @ 8pm
Saturday December 16 @ 8pm
Ars Nova Theater
Running time 1 hour 15 minutes
Tickets are $15
GET TICKETS HERE!
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Tickets are now available for MEMORY RETROGRADE at Under the Radar INCOMING! Series.
January 5 @ 6:30pm
January 13 @ 4:30pm
The Public: Shiva Theater
Members and Partners: $20
Non-Members: $25
Running time 1 hour 15 minutes
Kristine and Jen are psyched to working on their new collaboration plural (love) at the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab for the next two years. Separate from the Lab, they are working with director Morgan Green on this same piece through the New Georges Jam. They hope for these two opportunities to generate much material that will intersect and integrate to become the play.
on their play:
“plural (love) is a live performance that catalogues quandaries on ‘love’ shared in real-time. Drawing from auto-theory, daydreaming, critical theory/text, and song, we exercise radical truth-telling, which has become a major feminist project for both of us creatively and in life.”
Find out more about the lab here.
Come check out plural (love) by Kristine Haruna Lee and directed by Morgan Green as part of the New Georges Jamboree! Kristine and Morgan will be sharing 15 minutes of this brand new piece along with their other Jam cohorts at Dixon Place May 17th at 7:30pm!
photo by Sasha Arutyunova
We had a wonderful, sold out run of Memory Retrograde! Thanks to everyone who made it out, to the cast and crew, and to BAX for housing us for the last two years through this incredible residency.
As part of the Makers Lab Residency at Ars Nova, we will be sharing a new play by Kristine Haruna Lee titled Suicide Forest Directed by Aya Ogawa, at Ars Nova May 4th at 3pm. The play will be read by an all Japanese/Japanese heritage cast.
A despairing salaryman and a fed-up young school girl both decide to enter Japan's most notorious suicide spot, 'Aokigahara' or Suicide Forest, at the base of the national mountain. A nightmare play examining the sickness of a culturally uniform masculinity and the traditionally heroic performance of suicide.
The Reading is free, but we ask that you make a reservation here.
Thanks to our amazing 131 contributors, our goal was funded by 103% and we are now headed into tech for Memory Retrograde with a huge sigh of relief. THANK YOU. We hope you can join us for the showings on April 28th and 29th, 8pm @ BAX. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased here. Hope to see you next week!