YPAM

No One’s Rite

Hate to Cheek

Give the words back, they said, they said,  waited so long, till time has bled.

• Japan
• Theatre
• World Premiere

Loosely based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which captures the disturbing frenzy and irrational outcomes of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, this play takes place in the meeting room of a video production company. Four “female” employees engage in seemingly cheerful yet deeply insular conversations. Through their casual but stifling interactions, the play exposes the lingering grip of patriarchy, the rising tide of global populism, and the bleak expansion of exclusionary ideologies with sharp clarity. For us, feminism is not a “theme” but the foundation of our creative practice. That's why we sometimes feel an urge to cry out in frustration at a world where voices born of pain are judged from a safe distance—reduced to spectacle by those who will never feel the flames. We are always standing safely on the opposite shore, watching the flames from afar, tossing logs into the fire, pretending we're not involved. So if someone is burning before our eyes and we cannot put out the fire, then perhaps we, too, should cross the river—and burn with them.