Review: Wrestling With Angels and Demons in ‘Sumo’
An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.
For the Actors of ‘Sumo,’ Learning Lines Was Just the Half of It
The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.
INTO on MSN11dOpinion
Wrestling, religion, and rule-breaking collide in SUMO
Just like the Japanese sport it's inspired by, the new off-Broadway play is part ritual, part athletic spectacle.
‘Sumo’ and ‘Dakar 2000’ Review: Wrestling With Men and Morals
Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play at the Public Theater follows a stable of sumo wrestlers; Rajiv Joseph’s drama, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, observes a Peace Corps volunteer and a State Department ...