The Peony Lantern | 牡丹燈籠" is a retelling of the story that spawned rakugo, bunraku, and kabuki plays. The story was popularized in the west in Lafcadio Hearn‘s 1899 book, In Ghostly Japan. Our version is set in the Taisho period, in Yokohama, in the three days leading up to the o-bon festival of the dead.

A traveler arrives at the port of Yokohama in 1912, alone and unprepared: unprepared both for life in a very different culture and for falling in love with a very singular woman. But something strange is going on, a secret hangs in the air like a lantern, and the boundaries between life and death are thin. Can the traveler discover what’s happening before it’s too late?

The show features the design talents of musician and composer Anna Murray, who previously did sound design music for our September 2020 livestream of "Wuthering Heights|嵐ヶ丘". We also have NYC-based costume designer Lindsey LaRissa Kuhn (The Outliers, Diana the Musical, Tootsie the Musical) and YTG newcomer and Broadway lighting and projection programmer Ted Charles Brown joined us to give the show a unique look.

Available to stream 17 Feb – 3 Mar.