Aya Ogawa's compelling play, 'The Nosebleed, is now playing at Lincoln Center Theater
For Ogawa the play has been a kind of salve, a chance to really look under the proverbial hood. “Directing and performing the play has opened up pathways for me to forgive myself for not trying harder to repair our relationship when my father was still alive,” shares Ogawa of the play that had an earlier run at Japan Society in New York City.
But two challenges arose while I was working with this more open structure with multiple narratives sourced from different collaborators. The first was that the audience questioned the authenticity of the stories, especially when the original storyteller was not present in the room. And this line of questioning was not helpful in the trust I was trying to build with the audience.
I moved around a lot in my childhood, between Tokyo and various cities in the United States. And I felt very much like an outsider, no matter where we landed. For me, discovering theater in the 8th grade was like discovering a home. A place of community and acceptance regardless of what I looked like and what flaws I carried.
Brunner: It’s so interesting that you have actors portray you. Why was that important for the piece and to tell the story? And why did you select these specific actors?The use of multiple actors embodying different forms of the storyteller grew out of the early “failure” explorations. I found that displacing the singular storyteller and fracturing that role into multiple ones, seemed to give the audience more entry points into the story, paving the way towards a more heart-opening space.
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