Theatre

Now the main stage, "Shunkin". It was just fantastic. Probably I can say one of the best stages I've ever seen. The story is based on a novel called "Shunkin sho", written by Junichiro Tanizaki. It's a story of a blind shamisen player "Shunkin" and a man who takes care of her, "Sakuke". On this […]

Okay, the first writing after the re-launch is about the stage "Shun kin" which was performed at Barbican. And this entry is about its pre-show concert by Hidetaro Honjo. I'm afraid I didn't know his name...but seems he is such a famous Shamisen player. He started it by learning "Nagauta" and "Minyo". This time, he […]

I went to see Kabuki! Ebi-sama! Actually I was in two minds of going to see it, I didn:t have much money, was too busy, didn't have any image of "Kitsune Tadanobu" by Ebizo...but I'm so happy I could see it. They performed three scenes "Fushimi-inari" (aka "Torii-mae"), "Michiyuki-Hatsune-no-Tabi" (aka "Yoshino-yama"), and "Kawatsura-Hogen-Yakata-no-Dan" (aka "Shinokiri"), […]

I went to see the Kabuki stage called "Shin" performed by Kantaro/Shichinosuke Nakamura! This time a taiko performer, Tetsuei Hayashi, and a shamisen performer, Chikudo Takahashi were on the stage as well. Hayashi is the person who participated to start "Kodo", which I went to see their performance on the other day, so their drumming […]

I went to see the musical "Priscilla". I didn't know anything about the story, but it was amazing! The costume was so gorgeous, all the scenes was so energetic and powerful! I wish I could understand their jokes more... but still, their dancing was wonderful and I enjoyed it so much. Actually my friend's friend […]

I went to see a performance by "Kodo" (A group of Japanese traditional drum players). To be honest, I hadn't seen any proper Japanese drum performance before, and I just went there because it was 50% off for students! But it was amazing. Just amazing. I thought it would be good when I saw the […]

As I heard that I could see "Noh" (Japanese traditional theatre) at V&A, I went there wearing my kimono. To be honest, when I went to see "Noh" almost 10 years ago, it was in Yasukuni Shrine and the play was "Atsumori" as same as this time, the situation was perfect as there were some […]

I went to see Kabuki on the other day. The story was based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". My impression was, unique Kabuki (in a good meaning). There were more British audience than I thought, and the atmosphere was completely like "away"! At first, three children were on the stage and sang western style song with […]

I went to see Carmen last week being invited by my friend. It was the first time I went to Royal Albert Hall, which I always wanted to visit as everyone recommends! It looks beautiful from outside, but you should definitely go inside! It was exactly the same image as I used to imagine "European […]

The Woman in Black, which has been played for 19 years at the Fortune Theatre in London. The drama was exported to Japan in 1992, directed by Robin Herford, and have been played some times for years. Hearing that "Japanised" version would be re-imported to the Fortune Theatre as "Japanese Week", I couldn't help but […]