Japanese theater gets off to a flying start in 2020 with a collaboration between leading British and Japanese creators on the world premiere of a major new play being staged in Japanese.
Posting this exciting landmark is "Fortune," a witty but starkly contemporary take on the legend of Faust by one of this century's darlings of Western theater, the English playwright Simon Stephens.
Although still only 48, Stephens has long been in high demand in the United Kingdom, the United States and around Europe — indeed, he is one of the most-performed English-language writers in Germany. However, from the time of his earlier works, such as "On the Shore of the Wide World," in 2005, "Pornography" and "Harper Regan" in 2007, and through to "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" in 2012, he has also been among the few non-Japanese contemporary playwrights popular in Japan.