January 20 – February 5, 2012 at La Mama's Ellen Stewart Theater 66 E 4th St (between Bowery and Second Ave) (212) 475-7710 lamama.org Click here for TICKETS or call 212.475.7710 John Jesurun’s STOPPED BRIDGE OF DREAMS unfolds inside...

Stories and visions from the world of Stopped Bridge of Dreams.

Dailies more dailies       Photos more photos       Drawings more drawings       STOPPED BRIDGE OF DREAMS is the newest work from the Obie Award-winning MacArthur Fellow John...

ANGEL GRIEF: DAWN SAITO   I WAS A LAWYER ONCE: ASTA HANSEN   JOY RIDE: JOHN HAGAN   NO MORE DELIVERIES: OLIVE DAWLEY   SISTER DUPREE REVEALS: JUDITH MALINA   NAILS DRIVEN INTO AMATEUR PAINTING: JOHN KELLY   LIBROTRAFICANTE:...

Stopped Bridge of Dreams Text References   Scene 1: p. 1 This text references the first chapter from As I Crossed Bridge of Dreams, an 11th- century memoir written by Lady Sarashina, who was born in 1008 CE. In her childhood, she traveled...

Donald Keene on Saikaku Ihara   Saikaku was the first Japanese novelist of any importance for about five hundred years. And one of the very few whose name is even known. For a long period, under the influence of Buddhism, it was felt that...

Yes, we have traveled ten and twenty long years and I have revealed my whole life to you from the day when the lotus of my heart first opened until its petals withered. I may have lived in this world by selling my body but is my heart itself polluted?...

                I started out as a mechanic. But I make more money otherwise. It’s just money but I’m able to support my family very well. I have a lot of aunts and uncles and their children want...

    I started off as the receptionist, they had a secret little office at the airports. It was in a black Escalade. We’d take them one by one to the plane on the tarmac. All very private, I’d say as little as possible....

After the third war my family lived in the small fishing village of Williams. My mother was stationed there as part of the occupying forces. The job of her regiment was to systematically destroy the many thousands of cholera infected appaloosas...

DAWN SAITO Fri, 1/20 and Sat, 1/21 at 730PM Dawn Akemi Saito is an actress, performance artist, writer and Butoh-influenced dancer/choreographer. She has collaborated with major innovative artists performing theirs and her own work nationally and internationally....