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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Nobuko Tanaka</title>
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		<title>Redefining conventions of the play</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Takahiro Fujita]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without doubt, Takahiro Fujita is the most prominent newcomer in the world of Japanese contemporary theater. To a considerable extent that&#8217;s because the 27-year-old playwright/director has an unusual trademark style &#8212; to create works that often have the same lyrical phrases and series of movements repeated over and over again. In fact, almost as soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater groups play together</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pig Iron Theatre Company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh from a U.S. tour, &#8220;Zero Cost House,&#8221; the first international collaboration work between Yokohama&#8217;s Chelfitsch company and Philadelphia&#8217;s Pig Iron Theatre Company (PITC), opens at Kanagawa Arts Theatre next week with its original U.S. cast. One of the few high-profile Japanese dramatists on the international scene, Chelfitsch founder Toshiki Okada tries to give audiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cirque offshoot 7 Fingers has lofty ambitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cirque du Soleil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since first touring its native province of Quebec in 1984, the self-styled &#8220;multifaceted creative force&#8221; that is Canada&#8217;s Cirque du Soleil has become a major global phenomenon with several permanent venues. In 2002, though, seven Cirque du Soleil members turned their backs on that massive enterprise to form 7 Fingers, a small-scale company that had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korean dance show aims for the eyes, not the ears</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hero]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korean entertainment is excelling in a lot of disciplines, and stage performance is one of them. Now a groundbreaking action-drawing show, &#8220;Hero,&#8221; will take its turn trying to impress Japanese audiences. &#8220;Hero&#8221; embarks on a monthlong run at the Roppongi Blue Theater in Tokyo from Jan. 26. In Seoul, several theater sectors are now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Coriolanus&#8217; comes home — to Kyoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Motoi Miura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a fair bet that many people at the Globe Theatre in London last May expected the Kyoto-based Chiten (Point) Company to present a stereotypically Japanese, samurai-style &#8220;Coriolanus,&#8221; complete with taiko drums and period armor. Instead, however, Japan&#8217;s contribution to the theater&#8217;s Globe to Globe project, for which 37 Shakespeare plays were performed by companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social awareness takes center stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s calamities of March 2011 — the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and the start of an ongoing nuclear disaster — changed not only the social awareness of the general public who make up theater audiences, but also how dramatists approached their work. Many questioned why so many mistakes have been, and continue to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From an underdog in the U.S. to Japan&#8217;s top dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, 32-year-old director/translator Eriko Ogawa returned to Japan after 10 years in New York and presented a riveting production of &#8220;The Late Henry Moss,&#8221; Sam Shepard&#8217;s 2000 Pulitzer prize-winning tale of loves and hatreds in a frontier family way out West. Though still a virtual unknown in her homeland, that debut work in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classic tale gets multicultural</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After first appearing at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) 13 years ago, Swiss-Colombian director/actor Omar Porras is on his way back there this weekend with a time-honored classic in tow. Porras&#8217; Geneva-based Teatro Melandro company will stage William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;Romeo and Juliet,&#8221; along with the support of the SPAC team, who began workshops for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater wants to involve locals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tokyo-based Ryuzanji Company has been pushing the boundaries of contemporary drama since it was founded by director/actor Show Ryuzanji (whose real name is Shoji Fujioka) in 1984. Now, it is coproducing a huge musical with Toshima Ward centered on the northern Tokyo hub of Ikebukuro. Ryuzanji has enlisted the help of fellow directors Tengai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director Kazuko Watanabe to stage localized version of &#8216;Orpheus&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo&#8217;s Bunkyo Civic Hall will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of literary giant Ougai Mori with a one-off staging of Christoph W. Gluck&#8217;s 1762 opera &#8220;Orfeo ed Euridice&#8221; as translated and reworked by Mori, and simply retitled &#8220;Orpheus.&#8221; The performance will be directed by Berlin-based theater director Kazuko Watanabe, who is actively involved [...]]]></description>
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