CMU School of Drama


Monday, March 20, 2023

Devastation wreaked by adultery in Japanese tragedy ‘The Hunting Gun' at Off-Broadway’s Baryshnikov Arts Center

DC Theater Arts: Performed in Japanese with English supertitles, the US premiere of The Hunting Gun, a stage adaptation by Serge Lamothe of acclaimed Japanese author and poet Yasushi Inoue’s 1949 novella, now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Baryshnikov Arts Center, slowly reveals the devastating effects of a thirteen-year love affair, as told through three long and anguished letters to a philandering husband from his wife, his paramour, and her daughter.

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