The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

The 10th annual edition of Lincoln Center's soul-expanding White Light Festival begins with a visit from Japan's Sugimoto Bunraku Sonezaki Shinju. Hiroshi Sugimoto's troupe employs bunraku puppetry to render Chikamatsu Monzaemon's 1703 tragedy about the suicides of a clerk and a courtesan; the production features original music by Seiji Tsurusawa, who also directs.