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Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accused of sexual abuseOne of Japan’s best-known kabuki actors has been given a suspended prison sentence for helping his parents die in an apparen…
続きを読むEnnosuke Ichikawa taken to hospital but mother and father died after taking overdoseThe world of Japanese kabuki, a classical form of Japanese theatre that combines highly stylised movement and unusual vocalisation, has been rocked after the popular ac…
続きを読むAudiences appreciate seeing a difference slice of life and will lose themselves in the story – you just need to give them the chanceThere’s a moment in my play when one of the characters Bill is trying to convince the protagonist Nas to go away on a ho…
続きを読むDonmar Warehouse, LondonThe stage adaptation of Kavita Puri’s extraordinary oral history project is at times superficial and blunt but also deeply movingFew English-language writers have catalogued the real, lived experience of partition, that bloody h…
続きを読むIn 2012, he gurned his way around Mumbai on a tiny bike, baffling everyone except the Indian elite, who adore a posh, bumbling Brit. Could this new visit see the PM being compared to Beyoncé?If you Google Boris Johnson while online in India, a brillian…
続きを読むThe Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupeThe stage on screen: more films about theatreThe actor Geoffrey Bragg was born in 1909 in the Lake District …
続きを読むBajrang Dal hardliners in Madhya Pradesh threaten violence over plays ‘disrespectful to the Indian flag’Rightwing Hindu vigilante groups in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have forced the cancellation of an annual theatre festival, after threatening…
続きを読むFamiliar issues of discrimination and child marriage are being taken to the stage through interactive theatre in remote villagesHigh in the mountains of a remote village in western Nepal – a region once home to a fierce Maoist insurgency – a large crow…
続きを読むThis month the school scrapped several longstanding and unwritten rules that governed the behaviour of students for decadesFor more than a century the Takarazuka Music School has transformed thousands of young women from unpolished amateurs into accomp…
続きを読むThe independent Ilkhom theatre in Tashkent opened under Soviet rule in 1976A cherished independent theatre in Uzbekistan is fighting eviction after realestate developers in the booming capital selected its historic location for a new business centre.Th…
続きを読むHer dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012Anupama Chandrasekhar isn’t one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian p…
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