Theatre Arts Japan Presents
Work in Progress
“Japanese plays from the early 20th century”
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Theatre Arts Japan will produce 3 short stories written or inspired
by Three Japanese Masters in the early 20th century. New collaborated
experiment of Japanese directors.
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Japanese Plays
From the Early 20th Century
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Paper Balloon
Written by Kunio Kishida (written in 1925)
Directed by Eriko Ogawa
Cast: Motoki Kobayashi Yuriko Hoshina
Kishida, born in 1890 is the playwright
who is one of the important playwrights largely contributed to modern
Japanese theatre. “Paper
Balloon” is Kishida’s most popular play concerning
a young couple who have been married jut one year. |
Rashomon
Written by Fay and Michael Kanin
Inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Rashomon (written in 1915)
Directed by Nobuo Inubushi
Cast: Toshi Nakayama Takeshima Toshiji Florian
Klein Nobuo Inubushi
Akutagawa, born in 1892, was one of the first prewar Japanese writers
to achieve a wide foreign readership, because of his technical virtuosity.
He published his arresting psychological novella Rashomon, which was
to gain international recognition and eventually become a hugely successful
film by Kurosawa. |
The Wild Pear
Written by Kenji Miyazawa (written in 1923)
Directed by Yukako Yamazoe
Miyazawa, born in 1896. He was only 37 at the time of his death
though his literary works received enormous attention after his
life. “The Wild Pear” is a short story written as
a commentary for 2 slides. (Similar to silent films). Quiet and
gentle story of life under water. |
Date and Time:
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May 6 - 22, 2005
Thursday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Premier: May 6th, 7th, 8th |
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Theater:
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The Common Basis Theatre
50 8th Avenue, (near 46th St. )
Room 500 (5th Floor)
http://flaminamycoleman.com/commonbasis.html |
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Tickets:
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At box office: $15 (at the day of the show)
Advance Sales: $10
During Premier: Free
For Reservation: (646) 554-6557 or theatreartsjapan@earthlink.net
(Reservation for advance sales tickets must be made 2 days prior to each performance) |
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Language:
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All of the plays will be played in English. |
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Theatre Arts Japan was founded by Eriko Ogawa, new anticipated
Japanese director based in NY. Although she has no decades of experience,
her determination is already recognized by major Japanese news
papers like Asahi Shinbun. She is a “diamond in the rough” (docomo
usa namikiteru magazine). Eriko founded the company to seek recognition
to her heritage by producing Japanese plays. Also in order to express
Japanese humanity and culture fully, she has and will gather creative
Japanese directors. She is also a member of woken’glacier
theatre company where she recently directed “Seal Sings Its
Song”.
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Yukako Yamazoe
Director
Active director and producer. She has her own producing company Signifie
where she exposes well written, yet unknown scripts. She is currently
working to direct Dust Storm (a story about Chiura Obata, renowned
artist in California during WWII), written by award winning writer
Rick Foster. She will be producing Vivien (the life story of Vivien
Leigh) also written by Foster.
Photo: "Luna" |
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