He is a 50-year-old world-famous American architect; she is Sylvia, his first lover as a married man. But who is Sylvia and what is unspeakable about his passion for her? Is she a much younger woman? Perhaps foreign, or colored? Or even a man?

No, Sylvia is a goat!

Thanks to the broad horizons of the Tokyo-based Seinendan theater company, and its New York-based collaborator, dramatist Barry Hall, Japan now becomes only the third country (after the United States and Britain) to stage "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?," a cutting-edge examination of tolerance by Edward Albee, the ever-radical U.S. playwright who garnered a Tony for this work after it opened in New York in 2002.