University of Oxford Student Season: Michaelmas Term 2025

By Kobo Abe

Directed by Tomas Overton

Produced by Matthew Mair

From playwright Kobo Abe, author of Woman in the Dunes and Japan’s pre-eminent modernist, come three short absurdist plays.

Two women attempt to open a human suitcase emitting strange noises, a boxer fights with an invisible opponent, and a man who has been transformed into a stick is fought over by hippies and workers from hell. Equal parts Kafka and Beckett in its nightmarish vision of the modern world, witness human existence at its most distorted and satirical.