One Arm and a Leg is a piece of devised theater inspired by Yasunari Kawabata’s short story One Arm. The style of writing calls our attention to what is missing in the language—to what has been lost in translation as this story makes its way to America from Japan.

With One Arm and a Leg, PEGLEG seeks to place the extant themes of Kawabata’s story in dialogue with our own ponderings on physical loss, the location of home, and identity as expressed and experienced through the body. At times poetic, at times violent, One Arm and a Leg seeks to provoke, to meditate, to linger on such questions as: Where does one person end and another person begin? In what sense do we own our own bodies? How is identity related to the physical self? Using dance, video, music, and text, PEGLEG attempts to open up a discussion about these themes and investigate the role of loss in human life during moments of connection and moments of departure.

Credits

The Company
Arlo Hill
Aya Tucker
Catrin Lloyd-Bollard
Jamie Nelson
Jeffrey Kuperman
Liz Walker
Merrie Jane Brackin
Ricky Kuperman

Staff
Director … Calla Videt
Assistant Director Ilinca Radulian
Producer Kevin Davies
Producer Allison Kline
Producer Lauren Rayner
Choreographer Ricky Kuperman
Stage Manager Kara Kaufman
Assistant Stage Manager Laura Hirschberg
Assistant Stage Manager Gwyn Kay
Assistant Stage Manager Lillian Rodriguez
Set Design Melissa Goldman
Lighting Design Mary Ellen Stebbins
Video Design Trevor Martin
Props/Costumes Julie Ross
Graphic Design Julia Lindpaintner

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