Shun-kin: An International Co-production and Staging of Literature

Simon McBurney, Artistic Director, Complicite

Taeko Nagai, Director, Executive Committee for Shun-kin

Dr Stephen Dodd, Senior Lecturer in Japanese, SOAS

Nicholas Barter (chair), Principal of RADA (1993-2007)

 

Shun-kin, a co-production between Complicite and the Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo, directed by Simon McBurney, reunites the collaborators behind The Elephant Vanishes which was a huge success during bite03 and bite04 at the Barbican Theatre. This seminar will reveal the lengthy collaborative process involved in the creation of Shun-kin and the contemporary significance and challenges faced in staging the Japanese modern classic by Jun-ichiro Tanizaki. The production of Shun-kin was supported with a UK-Japan 2008 grant from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

 

After the seminar, the drinks reception to celebrate the production of Shun-kin will be co-hosted by Taeko Nagai (Japan) and Neville Shulman CBE (United Kingdom), Chairs of their International Theatre Institutes. Shun-kin will be performed at the Barbican Theatre from 30th January to 21st February as part of bite09.

 

The International Theatre Institute (ITI) is a non-governmental organisation affiliated to UNESCO, comprising an international network of theatre, dance and arts practitioners working through over 90 Centres worldwide. The purpose of the ITI is to promote knowledge and practice in the theatre disciplines, in order to encourage mutual understanding and creative co-operation in all its many forms.