Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth

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May 10, 2019

SHAKESPEARE MEETS BUTOH IN HIDE YOUR FIRES: BUTOH LADY MACBETH

Japanese Butoh dance breathes new life into a tale of Lady Macbeth

Los Angeles, CA (May. 10, 2019) – Yokko, the Japanese Butoh and theatre artist, returns to Hollywood Fringe Festival this year with her new show, Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth. Yokko has been appearing in the Hollywood Fringe since 2013, and this is the 3rd season participating at this festival. Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth opens on Friday, June 7th, 2019 at The Lounge Theatre – Lounge 1 – 6201 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038.

Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth brings the audience alongside the accursed spirit of Lady Macbeth to experience her nightmare of stifled ambition, unfulfilled desire, and ultimate loss. Telling the story solely through her perspective, this production fuses Japanese Butoh dance, movement, and various texts to take you inside the mind and body of one of Shakespear