19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Trying to analyze a filmmaking legend using Chobani yogurt
As a lover of misdirection, inconveniently elongated titles, mid-century samurai epics and high-protein dairy, I ought to be more susceptible than most to Woolly Mammoth's latest world premiere play, entitled (deep breath) 'Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)'
The show comes to us from playwright and performer Julia Izumi, a likable comedian who seems to delight in the fact that her show's oddball moniker will sucker cinephiles into an evening wherein she and four other actors take turns in the title role, donning the Japanese auteur's signature blue cap and sunglasses individually, and sometimes all at once.
