Phillip Zarrilli with the Llanarth Group, Wales, UK, and Yojiro Okamura with his AMI Theatre Company, Japan, have begun a two-year collaborative theatre project. This November, they will stage in Tokyo the Llanarth Group’s “Told by the Wind” and AMI’s “Silent Rain in the Neander Forest” and hold workshops in their respective psychophysical training methods. In November 2014 they will produce a new collaborative performance in both the U.K. and Japan.
From the inception of British-Japanese relations, cultural exchange has been active. In the performing arts, noh theatre has given British theatre practitioners insight into alternative non-realistic dramaturgy; today noh-derived experimental theatre is at the cutting edge of postdramatic theatre.
Noh aesthetics inform the work of both British director Zarrilli and Japanese playwright Okamura, but most importantly their objective is to devise performance that reflects contemporary concerns, not to replicate a great tradition. Their respective work being extremely attractive, I believe their collaboration will advance theatrical exchange between the two countries to an unprecedented level of artistic achievement.
“Silent Rain in the Neander Forest” 31 Oct 13-03 Nov 13, at 19:30 except for 03 Nov 13 at 17:00;
“Told by the Wind” 09 Nov 13 at 14:00 and 19:30, 10 Nov 13 at 14:00.
For details, please contact: in Japanese or in English.
price of attendance: adv. 3000 yen; on the day: 3500 yen; 2-play set:5000 yen
For booking, contact: t.babylon@r5.dion.ne.jp OR TEL: 81-3-3927-5482
http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~babylon/ami_8archives18.htm
http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~babylon/gekidan_ami.htm.
Produced in association with: AMI Theatre Company, The Llanarth Group, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, and the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
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