Summer Shares: Forbidden Colors
Based on Yukio Mishima’s novel “FORBIDDEN COLORS”
Adapted by Sachiko Sunakawa & Takashi Izutsu
from the English translation by Alfred H. Marks
Producer & Director: Sachiko Sunakawa
Consultant: Michael Mayer
The world premiere theatrical performance.
“From one of Japan’s greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating poisoned cocktail. An aging, embittered novelist sets out to avenge himself on the women who have betrayed him. He finds the perfect instrument in Yuichi, a young man whose beauty makes him irresistible to women but who is just discovering his attraction to other men.
As Yuichi’s mentor presses him into a loveless marriage and a series of equally loveless philanderings, his protégé enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan. In that hidden society of parks and tearooms, prostitutes and aristocratic blackmailers, Yuichi is as defenseless as any of the women he preys on. Mordantly observed, intellectually provocative, and filled with icy eroticism, Forbidden Colors is a masterpiece.” (Vintage Books, 1999)
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CAST
Maeken – Yuichi
Tom Paolino – Old Man
Jose Gamo – Young Man
Monica Charline Brown – Young Woman
Camara McLaughlin – Old Woman
Clarissa Howel – Musician/Cello
Associate Producer: Fumiko Tanaka
Assistant Director: Jan Mizushima
Stage Manager: GotchaBack Prod, LLC & Bruce Hawkins
Concept & Artistic Direction: Takashi Izutsu
Scenic Designer: Patrice Davidson
Lighting Designer: Alex Moore
Sound Designer: Jim Petty
Projection Designer: Takaaki Ando
Choreography: Greer Gisy
Prop/Costume: Tomoko Inoue
Hair/Makeup: Kana Oguchi & Shogo Haenuki
Dance Instruction: Kiyotaka Kogure
Photography: Hironori Sakunaga
Model: Kojiro Kudo & Takahiro Gushiken
Postcard Design: Tamaki Sono