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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Nobuko Tanaka</title>
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		<title>It doesn&#8217;t have to be all true to be the life of Akihiro Miwa</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/18/stage/it-doesnt-have-to-be-all-true-to-be-the-life-of-akihiro-miwa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=it-doesnt-have-to-be-all-true-to-be-the-life-of-akihiro-miwa</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Miwa has carried on being a true monster (kaibutsu), whereas many amazingly talented freaks have gone back to looking and behaving normally after enjoying a brief boom in popularity,&#8221; said dramatist Hideki Noda at a press conference last month for &#8220;Miwa,&#8221; his play based on the real-life 78-year-old chanson singer, actor and director Akihiro Miwa. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s love affair with Chekhov</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chekhov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kera meets Chekhov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keralino Sandorovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mansai Nomura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SIS Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Seagull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have rarely seen a great production of any Chekhov play in Japan. Sometimes, I&#8217;ve even wanted to ask how they managed to make them so tedious.&#8221; Mansai Nomura, one of the country&#8217;s leading ky&#333;gen (traditional comedy) actors, may say this with a wry laugh, but the 47-year-old who plays an arty celebrity (Trigorin) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choreographer takes a Shakespeare piece and positively reworks it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Take one contemporary-dance choreographer (Mikuni Yanaihara) and apply her cutting-edge work and rapid-fire script to William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;Timon of Athens&#8221; &#8212; what do you get? Well, what you get is an award. Yanaihara took last year&#8217;s prestigious Kishida Kunio Drama Award for her work, &#8220;Hey Timon, Let&#8217;s Think Positive!&#8221; Now audiences in Japan will get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeté-ing from ballet to kitchen-sink drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamiyo Kusakari]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though she&#8217;s moved from elegant arabesques to doing the washing up, former prima ballerina Tamiyo Kusakari is stealing the show in &#8220;Ani Kaeru (The Older Brother Returns),&#8221; a kitchen-sink drama playing every night through Sept. 1 at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro. For renowned writer/director Ai Nagai, this staging, in which Kusakari &#8212; a long-time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninagawa&#8217;s golden oldies reach a whole new stage in life</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/10/general/ninagawas-golden-oldies-reach-a-whole-new-stage-in-life/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ninagawas-golden-oldies-reach-a-whole-new-stage-in-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yukio Ninagawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;After a performance at the 232-seat Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris, one of the Japanese staff there said I had a &#8216;splendid voice.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t buy anything in Paris, but that was the best possible souvenir,&#8221; said Kiyoshi Takahashi, 85, the oldest male member of Saitama Gold Theater. Seven years before receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven years on, and everyone&#8217;s itching for more</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yukio Ninagawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To date, including his all-male production of &#8220;The Merchant of Venice&#8221; that&#8217;s set to run next month at Sainokuni Saitama Arts Theater outside Tokyo, Yukio Ninagawa will have staged 29 of the 38 plays attributed to William Shakespeare — and his ambition to direct the entire oeuvre remains undimmed. Besides pursuing that goal, however, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Bourne&#8217;s &#8216;Dorian  Gray&#8217; will never grow old, says its lead dancer, Richard Winsor</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/03/stage/matthew-bournes-dorian-gray-will-never-grow-old-says-its-lead-dancer-richard-winsor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=matthew-bournes-dorian-gray-will-never-grow-old-says-its-lead-dancer-richard-winsor</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorian Gray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Bourne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Matthew and I are very excited to see how Japanese audiences react — but I think everyone is absolutely going to love this show,&#8221; English dancer Richard Winsor said at a Tokyo press conference held in May to preview next week&#8217;s season of Matthew Bourne&#8217;s &#8220;Dorian Gray,&#8221; in which he plays the title role. Winsor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For a nonverbal theater group, The Original Tempo has a lot to say</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/20/stage/for-a-nonverbal-theater-group-the-original-tempo-has-a-lot-to-say/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=for-a-nonverbal-theater-group-the-original-tempo-has-a-lot-to-say</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Masahiro Kinoshita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Original Tempo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worry Kinoshita]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Yellow Raincoat Squad&#8217; is charming and engaging. This is another one of those productions that defies description but is a must-see for all ages,&#8221; wrote Catherine Lamm in The British Theatre Guide in August, 2009. Lamm was reviewing one of Japan&#8217;s best-kept theatrical secrets: The Original Tempo (TOT), a nonverbal but highly kinetic Osaka-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shizuoka theater festival courts the avant-garde</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Claude Regy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satoshi Miyagi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shizuoka Performing Arts Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Golden Coach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Spanish Fly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Theater Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Theater Festival in Shizuoka Under Mt. Fuji]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the &#8220;best birthday party ever&#8221; when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, though, as he is here to re-create &#8212; with Japanese actors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flamenco queen shares &#8216;Utopia&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/17/stage/flamenco-queen-shares-utopia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=flamenco-queen-shares-utopia</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flamenco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Niemeyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in an interview room at the Bunkamura cultural complex in Tokyo's Shibuya district, María Pagés leans forward, smiles and tells me: "Flamenco is my language."]]></description>
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		<title>The comedy and drama of Takashi Fujii</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Takashi Fujii]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At age 41, Takashi Fujii has quite the resume. In 2000 and 2001, he appeared on national broadcaster NHK&#8217;s annual top-rated New Year&#8217;s variety show, &#8220;Kohaku Utagassen&#8221; (&#8220;Red and White Song Battle&#8221;); he toured abroad as a pop singer in 2004, including shows in Los Angeles and Shanghai; and in 2009 he starred in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. stage group to rework &#8216;Mononoke&#8217; magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone understands the truth in the phrase, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t hurt to ask&#8221; — it&#8217;s Alexandra Rutter. The 23-year-old cofounder and artistic director of Whole Hog Theatre (WHT) is also the director of the first-ever adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s 1997 anime masterpiece, &#8220;Princess Mononoke.&#8221; &#8220;I feel incredibly privileged to have been given this opportunity,&#8221; she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welsh approach to &#8216;national&#8217; theater is efficiently different</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/11/stage/welsh-approach-to-national-theater-is-efficiently-different/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=welsh-approach-to-national-theater-is-efficiently-different</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John E. McGrath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New National Theatre Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Always keen to break new ground, Keiko Miyata, artistic director of the New National Theatre Tokyo (NNTT), has created a series titled &#8220;With: linking theater&#8221; as the centerpiece of this season&#8217;s program. In this, she has lined up three appetizing collaborations by asking playwrights from Wales, South Korea and Germany to create new works to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Natch&#8217; gets ghostly on stage</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/09/stage/natch-gets-ghostly-on-stage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=natch-gets-ghostly-on-stage</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amon Miyamoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoichi the Earless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morning Musume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natsumi Abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yusuke Yamamoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I thought too much about my future plans, I would kind of get stuck,&#8221; says Natsumi Abe. &#8220;So I just try to concentrate on the next day&#8217;s work and do it as well as I can.&#8221; It&#8217;s a serious statement on work ethic, but when Abe says it she delivers it with the shining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Cowra breakout haunt Japan to this day</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/17/general/ghosts-of-cowra-breakout-haunt-japan-to-this-day/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ghosts-of-cowra-breakout-haunt-japan-to-this-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cowra breakout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prisoner A: &#8221; &#8216;Never live to experience the shame of being taken prisoner by the enemy&#8217; &#8230; that&#8217;s what the Imperial Japanese Military Regulations say, hence there must be no prisoners. So what&#8217;s happening here now are the dreams of ghosts&#8221; — from &#8220;Cowra no Hancho Kaigi&#8221; (&#8220;Honchos&#8217; Meeting in Cowra&#8221;). Last week in Tokyo&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aspiring thespians get help in realizing dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/08/stage/aspiring-thespians-get-help-in-realizing-dreams/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=aspiring-thespians-get-help-in-realizing-dreams</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hibiki Kitagawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hideki Noda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keiko Miyata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamiya Kuriyama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you had a son or daughter who announced they wanted to be a stage actor, whatever would you say to them? In Japan today, as in centuries past, this still remains a dreaded scenario for many &#8220;respectable&#8221; parents hoping to raise children who will better their lots materially and in the all-important eyes of [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[playwright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takahiro Fujita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theater]]></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 — 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>
				<category><![CDATA[Chelfitsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pig Iron Theatre Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toshiki Okada]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[7 Fingers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cirque du Soleil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanagawa Arts Theatre]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[William Shakespeare]]></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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/11/29/stage/from-an-underdog-in-the-u-s-to-japans-top-dog/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=from-an-underdog-in-the-u-s-to-japans-top-dog</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/11/16/events/theater-wants-to-involve-locals/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=theater-wants-to-involve-locals</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/10/26/events/director-kazuko-watanabe-to-stage-localized-version-of-orpheus/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=director-kazuko-watanabe-to-stage-localized-version-of-orpheus</link>
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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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		<title>Festival/Tokyo theater event to give Asia a starring role</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has been on a bit of a losing streak for a while now. In 2010, it was overtaken as the world&#8217;s second-largest economy by China, and in 2011 the nation was rocked by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the ensuing tsunami and nuclear crisis. Now, Japan has become embroiled in territorial disputes with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dramatists explore the essence of language in new play</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a small studio just a seagull&#8217;s squawk from Tokyo Bay in the Higashi Gotanda district of Shinagawa Ward, a unique play titled &#8220;Understandable?&#8221; briefly delighted packed houses of baffled Japanese and others recently with its absurd-but-not, &#8220;abandoned- in-translation&#8221; dialogue devoid of subtitles. Showcasing the combined talents of local theater company Gotandadan and a French [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentaro makes hip-hop personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost the whole of Kentaro&#8217;s life has been devoted to dance &#8212; in particular to hip-hop dance &#8212; ever since he first saw it on television as an elementary school boy. Even today, as a well-known professional dancer who prefers not to reveal his surname and calls himself simply KENTARO!!, he recalls the TV show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The woman who could bring Beppu back to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan&#8217;s performing arts scene, it&#8217;s widely believed that 32-year-old Akane Nakamura is one of the country&#8217;s most famous globally known theater producers. As executive director of the theater production company Precog and the performing arts nonprofit Drifters International &#8212; which she founded in 2006 and 2010, respectively &#8212; Nakamura&#8217;s extraordinary enthusiasm for her work [...]]]></description>
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