THEATER

Yasushi Inoue (adpt. Serge Lamothe): The Hunting Gun

TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 4 – 9, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 15)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

$35-$150
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An adaptation of a novella by the great Japanese writher Yasushi Inoue, directed by François Girard, in town for Lohengrin. A man receives letters from three women: his wife, his mistress, and his mistress’s daughter. The letters are recited by a single actress playing all three women in turn. And that actress is pop-star-turned-acclaimed-thespian (and Ring star) Miki Nakatani. Meanwhile, the recipient of the letters spends the show sitting at the back of the stage cleaning his hunting rifle. He’s played by one of the few people on Earth who are so magnetic you can’t take your eyes off them even when they’re doing the most desultory things: Mikhail Baryshnikov.

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