A Noh Drama about Elvis

Blue Moon Over Memphis, Deborah Brevoort’s Noh Drama about Elvis Presley will be produced in a traditional Noh staging by Theatre Nohgaku in Tokyo, Japan on Saturday May 23rd at 2pm and 7pm.  The production will feature Noh orchestrations composed by Richard Emmert and a special Elvis Noh mask that was created by Hideta Kitazawa, a second generation master carver whose masks are in the leading Noh and Kyogen collections in Japan.  Theatre Nohgaku is preparing an international tour of Blue Moon Over Memphis in 2016.