Japan – Archive

Complicité’s new endeavour, Shun-kin, is a tale of love, obsession, devotion, and selflessness – one that will stay with me for a long time.

Meyerhold was in search of a new kind of theatre; one that could widen its emotional potential to express new thoughts and ideas and reflect the times in which he was living.

“Hiroshima-style” Kagura is perhaps the hippest, most secular, crowd-pleasing style of Shinto performance in the country.

In February 2005 I saw the show at the Tiny Alice theatre with a real cast, real musicians, costumes, voices, singing and dancing and not once was the war mentioned.

John Donne once wrote “No man is an island”, but in this urban age of glass cities, and right here on this stiff wooden theatre bench I think I disagree.