28 July 2015
FellSwoop Theatre perform Toshiki Okada's Current Location from May to August
Award-winning theatre company FellSwoop Theatre present the European Premier of Current Location by Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada.
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30 November 2014
Usagi Yojimbo will be showing at Southwark Playhouse from Friday 28 November 2014 to Sunday 4 January 2015 - special offer on tickets
Usagi Yojimbo will be showing at Southwark Playhouse from Friday 28 November 2014 to Sunday 4 January 2015. 17th Century Japan. A world of bandit raccoons, feline ninjas and warring animal clans.A young rabbit leaves home, family and friends behind him in pursuit of one ambition: to become a great samurai warrior.
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'Oku Hanafu' by Eluned Gramich - Review
Eluned Gramich completed a BA at the University of Oxford, and an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She participated on the Daiwa Scholarship 2012 programme, to explore Japan’s literature and culture. Her first published short story, Oku Hanafu was published in ‘Rarebit’, edited by Susie Wild in 2014.
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Today and Tomorrow: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Duets at Sadler's Wells
Sadler’s Wells will feature Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s 4D, a contemporary dance piece with four duets on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th June at 7:30pm.
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Japan’s All-Female Takarazuka Revue—Considering Gender/Sexuality from Cross-Cultural Perspectives, 27 June 2014
The screening at Birkbeck Cinema of Dream Girls (1994 50 min), the documentary of the Takarazuka Revue, directed by British female documentary makers Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, will be followed by a discussion session led by Dr Nobuko Anan at Birkbeck College and a short performance by two former Takarazuka performers, each of whom used to be
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Toshiki Okada's 'Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich' on at the Arts Depot, 10 and 11 June 2014
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting the production of Toshiki Okada’s Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant awarded to the London International Festival of Theatre.
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Theatre503 and Kagami Theatre present ‘Woman in the Dunes’, 14-18 January 2014
Theatre503 and Kagami Theatre present ‘Woman in the Dunes’ by Micha Colombo, based on the original novel by Abe Kobo, January 14th -18th 2014.
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Noh Training Project Group (Royal Holloway) launches
The Noh Training Project UK is delighted to announce that it has established a brand new Noh Group in association with Royal Holloway (University of London) to give people interested in Noh the opportunity to practise in the UK’s only dedicated Noh theatre, and to meet like-minded people.
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'Contacting the World 2014', inviting theatres and emerging artists to apply
Contact Manchester, one of the UK’s leading arts organisations for young people, is looking for young performance companies to participate in a pioneering, intercultural project, Contacting the World 2014.
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'Anjin the Shogun and the English Samurai' opened on 31 January; this run finishes on Saturday 9 February
Anjin The Shogun and the English Samurai premiered in Japan in 2009. Following two successful seasons there, its finale is now being held at Sadler’s Wells. This special production in London is part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Season, A World Elsewhere and is a launch event for Japan400, which is celebrating the 400th anniversary
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