As the unnamed pivotal main character of "Bell" and the only one wearing vividly theatrical, Kabuki-inspired costuming and wigs as opposed to the plainer dress and hair-styling of the other performers Ms. Yokoshi enacts the ways of Kabuki recitation and dance without fully embodying them.

WSJ: Giselle at the D?j?ji Temple | Yasuko Yokoshi | Bell | New York Live Arts | By Robert Greskovic

Bell's character Smike is tortured in a boarding school for orphans until he is saved by the idealistic Nicholas Nickleby (Hunnam).

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