Sotoba Komachi

A modern adaptation of a Japanese noh theatre classic, Yukio Mishima’s Sotoba Komachi tells the story of a 99 year-old woman’s encounter with a poet who deems youth and romance as life’s most crucial desirabilities. When the old woman takes the poet on an amorous, picturesque journey of her past, the memories that unfold incite both tragedy and peace on the stage. In our intercultural production of Mishima’s re-telling, we explore the strained relationship amongst time, beauty, and death and the gendered traumas of the aging body and hopeful impossibilities.