Produced by Ohio Wesleyan University Written by: Kobo Abe Direction: Audrey Castaneda Walker Set Design: Josh Martin

The Man Who Turned Into a Stick is the third play in Abe’s three part series on birth, life, and death. This surreal, dark comedy begins with a man’s transformation into a stick, his death, while the action of the play leads the man to confront what his own death means as he encounters two hippies and two agents from hell who help him realise what it is to die.