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Join Us on the Journey Toward Theatre of Yugen’s 50th Anniversary and Help Bring Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company, Led by Japan's Living National Treasure Mansaku Nomura, to San Francisco!
On October 24, Theatre of Yugen will present a special reading of Kintsugi, written and directed by Ana Bayat.
Kintsugi is an ensemble memory play tracing the life journey of an Iranian woman and her family across post-revolutionary Iran, post-Franco Spain, and 1990s Britain as they live through displacement, separation, reversed immigration, and the struggle to speak freely. The play moves through fragmented memories as the ensemble becomes family members, friends, authorities, strangers, and institutions that shape her life. Western pop music banned in Iran after the revolution runs through the play, carrying personal memories alongside those of an entire generation.
Inspired by the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, Kintsugi looks at how identity and belonging are broken apart and rebuilt through geography, language, memory, political upheaval, and exile. Using humor, music, movement, and theatrical doubling, the play asks how people survive rupture, what they carry across borders and generations, and whether the fractures of a life can become part of what makes its story whole.
Kintsugi grew out of Bayat’s award-winning multilingual solo work Mimi’s Suitcase, which Theatre of Yugen presented in 2020 as part of Yugen’s incubation program. Ana has since expanded and reimagined the one-woman work as an ensemble piece, with a reading in Barcelona along the way, and Theatre of Yugen is pleased to welcome the work back to NOHSpace in its new form.
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