A Reinvention—Unmasked

The Sad Mag fam­ily is so excited to offer up a fresh issue of the mag­a­zine, launch­ing Wednes­day, August 4 at the Cobalt. Check out a sneak peek from the lat­est issue, writ­ten of the­atre leg­end Yayoi Hirano by Michelle Reid.

Yayoi Hirano and I sit at a card table in an empty room, while out­side there are the famil­iar sounds of Granville Island on a week­end after­noon: ducks, chil­dren, cars faintly thun­der­ing across the bridge over­head. Yayoi is wear­ing black sun­glasses and low black heels, dressed in lay­ers of black fab­ric. She is com­posed and ele­gant, her youth­ful appear­ance bely­ing the longevity of her career as a dancer, mask-maker, mime artist, sto­ry­teller and founder of the Yayoi The­atre Move­ment Soci­ety, which is now two decades old.

—Michelle Reid

Illus­tra­tion: Kristina Fiedrich