Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

Opening Date: Jan 15, 2025

Closing Date: Jan 18, 2025

https://japansociety.org/events/shuji-terayama-duke-bluebeard-castle/

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Japan Society

333 E 47 St New York, NY 10022

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Bluebeard is given a Harajuku makeover in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a wild burlesque-like subversion of the French gothic horror legend. Shuji Terayama, father of Japan’s angura (underground) theater movement in the 1960s and ’70s, was repeatedly drawn to the story of Bluebeard’s wives and the locked castle door, culminating in this mind-bending game of cat-and-mouse that questions the very nature of theater itself. Saturated with dark magic tricks, fiddlers and accordion players, aerial dance and more, Project NYX, led by Kanna Mizushima, brings a cross-dressing cast of nearly 30 members to Japan Society for a production directed by illustrious Korean-Japanese experimental theater director Kim Sujin. Find out who escapes the castle in this macabre, magic-infused Lolita fashion spectacle.

Presented in partnership with the 2025 Under the Radar festival.

Off-Off Broadway

Show Notes: Performed in Japanese with English supertitles.

Performance Schedule:

WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM

Director

Kim Sujin

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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.