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Written by Yukio Mishima...
THIS traditional genre in Japanese drama gets a modern twist from famed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima...
Ishioka's East-West ambivalence is palpable. Although she decamped to work in New York City in 1980 (and "did nothing," she says), Ishioka returned to Tokyo after two years; then her interest shifted to U.S. and European projects. There was the Mishima movie and a Miles Davis album cover, and now she is at work on sets for M. Butterfly, a Broadway play, and for a Philip Glass opera to be produced in New York. "In the '80s," she says, "I would like to cause a commotion outside Japan...
...they have matured, and in order to grow as artists, they had to move toward the center." To combat middle-age spread, they have branched out. Wilson has taken up traditional opera (he will direct Strauss's Salome at La Scala in January), Glass has written movie scores (Koyaanisquatsi, Mishima), while Tharp has choreographed for the American Ballet Theater and worked with Jerome Robbins. The have-nots have become the haves...
...Mishima's play, a drunken poet (Tracy Cronin) encounters Komachi (Jennifer Graham) in a public park and, after a long, strange conversation that transports them back 80 years, finds himself repeating the suitor's role and painful death...