A single woman on stage shuffles in and out of various characters to act a story of female frustration, pain and longing.

Actor Izumi Aoyagi stars in “Wisteria and the Three Women,” a monodrama adaptation of Mieko Kawakami’s serialized in 2017. The award-winning Kawakami is known for her incisive writing on the female body and societal problems through rich poetic language, which, in addition to Aoyagi’s performance, is another highlight of this stage adaptation.