The House of Sleeping Beauties

Natsuko Ohama, Ching Valdes-Aran, John Lone, Elizabeth Sung, Victor Wong, and DHH. Photo by Martha Swope.

The House of Sleeping Beauties is an adaptation of the novella by Nobel Prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata. An elderly man visits a unique brothel filled with sleeping young women. The customers are permitted only to sleep, but not have sex, with the girls, as they fantasize about what it was like to be young.

The House of Sleeping Beauties premiered at the Public Theater in 1983, directed by John Lone with Lenore Kletter.

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The Sound of a Voice

Masanari Kawahara and Maria Chen in Mu Performing Arts, 1996

Inspired by Japanese ghost stories, The Sound of a Voice tells of a lone samurai warrior who goes into the woods to kill a woman rumored to be a witch, but ends up falling in love with her instead.

The Sound of a Voice premiered at the Public Theater in 1983, directed by John Lone with Lenore Kletter.

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