Category: Theatre

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NINAGAWA Twelfth Night

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 cembalo, and Orsino wearing Japanese style costume said “Shakespeare lines”… it was extremely weird! Some British people were giggling, and I thought the whole play might be crap… But don’t underestimate Kabuki actors! They started to capture audience’s feeling little by little. Well…Kikunosuke acted Viola […]

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Carmen

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 theatre”. It was amazing. I wish I could seat which looks “place for rich people” (=box seat) one day… It was also the first time I saw Carmen as live performance, I know a lot of its music and I enjoyed it so much. Carmen, […]

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The Woman in Black

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 buying the tickets without any thoughts. The actors are Takaya Kawakami and Haruhiko Saito. Sounds like it is a horror story…but no any other information. But isn’t it so interesting that a classic drama which was born in England went to Japan and come back […]

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Kabuki Stage in Germany in June

http://www.hkw.de/en/div/veranstaltungen/Veranstaltungsdetail_21777.php Kabuki stage in Germany! I want to go~~~ I really want to go~~~. But it’s impossible to visit Europe in this season… I wish they would have stages in the U.K….Then I might end up buying a ticket!

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Kabuki @ Hakata-za February

It was the kabuki stage I was really looking forward. I went to Hakata (2hours by airplane). Woo Hoo! On start time, Kantaro started to announcement. He appeared wearing Montsuki Hakama (Formal Kimono), and gave us a greeting. He always looks smart! Well, it sounded like a wrestler. Mic perfomance? The first act was “Yoshitsune Senbon-sakura Tokai-ya / Daimotsuno-ura”> In the scene Tomomori kills himself by diving into the sea carrying a big ancher, it is really famous that the actor fall down with his back. This time, the actor was Shido… Well, I’m afraid to say this, but the […]