Shinnai Meets Puppetry: One Night in Winter & The Peony Lantern

Opening Date: Nov 07, 2024

Closing Date: Nov 09, 2024

https://japansociety.org/events/shinnai-meets-puppetry-one-night-in-winter-the-peony-lantern/

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333 E 47 St New York, NY 10022

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Following her highly popular run of SHEEP #1 at Japan Society in 2021, NYC-based artist Sachiyo Takahashi/Nekaa Lab presents two whimsical and spooky tales: a heart-warming-then-wrenching fable on the friendship between a shapeshifting tanuki trickster and a lonely old man; and a classical Japanese ghost story to chill you to the bone. These stories were set by shinnai-bushi Grand Master Okamoto Bunya (1895-1996) to rustic, lyrical storytelling music with shamisen accompaniment. Takahashi, who has practiced shinnai-bushi under the authorized stage name of Okamoto Miya, performs this expressive music while her collaborators Rowan Magee and Emma Wiseman animate these fantastical stories with original puppets and new puppetry techniques, sure to enchant children and adults alike.

Off-Off Broadway Performance Art

Age Guidance: 8

Show Notes: Performed in English and Japanese with English supertitles.

Performance Schedule:

THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 7:30 PM
SATURDAY @ 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM

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Directions Bus

¦By bus: M15 to 47th Street, M101 or M102 north on Third Avenue to 47th Street, or crosstown M50 (on weekdays) or M42.

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¦By subway: #4/5/6, 7 and S at Grand Central Station; #6 at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue; and the E and V at Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street. Public parking available nearby.