It's my pleasure to introduce two plays you really must see this month, if not today. Well, one today, and one tomorrow, perhaps, so as not to be too greedy.
That's even though greed is the key factor in "The Golovlyov Family" by Ai Nagai who, at age 51, is probably the fastest-rising force in Japanese contemporary drama. Besides running Nitosha, her Tokyo-based theater company, her witty, insightful style -- especially when cutting to the quick of the modern Japanese experience -- ensures she is also constantly in demand to write and direct for other companies.
Here, the ensemble of actors and technicians she has brought to the New National Theater's small Pit theater have together created a theatrical gem.