The Peony Lantern | 牡丹燈籠

This performance will be available to watch on-demand anytime between noon on September 10th and midnight on September 16th. 

It’s 1912. A traveller arrives at the port of Yokohama, alone and unprepared: unprepared both for life in a very different culture and for falling in love with a very singular woman. But something strange is going on, a secret hangs in the air like a lantern, and as the festival of O-bon approaches, the boundaries between life and death are thin. Can the traveller discover what’s happening before it’s too late?
“The Peony Lantern” is a modern, multimedia retelling of a classic ghost story that was popularized in the west in Lafcadio Hearn‘s 1899 book, “In Ghostly Japan”.

Accessibility
Closed Captioned

About the Artists
The Yokohama Theatre Group is a 121 year-old performance troupe based in Yokohama and Kawasaki, Japan. We are a rotating group of diverse, international artists who are committed to creating accessible, multilingual, international, and relevant theatre. We were last in Victoria in 2010 with our fringe show “39”.

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