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The Arts Intel Report

The Nosebleed

Ashil Lee and Drae Campbell in The Nosebleed.

July 29 – Aug 28, 2022
150 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023, United States

“When my father died,” the playwright Aya Ogawa has said, “I failed to do anything to honor his life.” Her play The Nosebleed, which premiered in 2021 at the Japan Society, is both a reckoning with that “failure” and a reversal of it. The show centers on Ogawa’s fractured relationship with her father (early on, she asks the audience, “Who here hates their father?”) and the messy emotions that came after his death. In the vignettes that make up the show, Ogawa plays her father and her son, while four different actors play Ogawa. The Lincoln Center run is just six weeks. —Jensen Davis

Photo: Julieta Cervantes