Shochiku Grand Kabuki

Dates: 24.3.2009 to 28.3.2009. Marrying traditional Japanese theatre, Kabuki, with Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, celebrated Japanese director, Yukio Ninagawa creates a visionary new production. Working for the first time with two of Kabuki's greatest performers, Onoe Kikugoro VII and his son Onoe Kikunosuke V, Ninagawa relocates Shakespeare's well-loved comedy to a fantastical and colourful world set in Japan's historical past. Through stylised gestures, speech and music; executed with precision timing, Kabuki brings a new energy to Shakespeare's comedic moments. Ninagawa's striking staging reflects a fanciful but nonetheless quintessential Japanese world producing a Twelfth Night of timeless beauty.

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