News category: Theatre & Film

Rebellious Bodies - new festival dedicated to Butoh - 31 October to 12 November 2023

Rebellious Bodies is a brand new festival across the UK to reintroduce audiences to Butoh, the ground-breaking Japanese dance form.

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Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange on 2&3 and 6 November in Lancaster and Salford

Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange will take place on Thursday and Friday, 2 and 3 November 2023 in Lancaster and on 6 November in Salford. The programme includes site-specific theatre workshop ‘Democracy as a Verb’ led by the award-winning Japanese theatre director Yuta Hagiwara from Tokyo, lectures by one of the leading Japanese theatre scholars Professor

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Dr Chris Harding talks Lady Macbeth and Throne of Blood

Via BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking episode below you can catch up with Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Dr Chris Harding talking Lady Macbeth!

‘Throne of Blood’ , Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film (based on Shakespeare’s play) is part of a BFI season celebrating the director which runs across February.

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Review and also an introduction to 'Drive My Car' - film based on a Haruki Murakami short story

“Drive My Car” takes a meditative trip down memory lane.  Murakami Haruki’s short story of a driver growing closer to her passenger is adapted by Hamaguchi Ryusuke into an understated and precise reflection on language, emotion and loss. Here you can read a super review of the film by Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Dr Becca Voelcker.

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Kotatsu Festival 2021: 25 to 26 September at Chapter (Cardiff) and 1 to 3 October at Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival returns this month as Chapter’s first visiting film festival since lockdown measures ended. Although the festival screenings will have reduced seating due to social distancing, there’s still a great programme of events, with films such as The Deer King, Ride Your Wave, On-Gaku, and Studio Ghibli’s latest Earwig and the Witch. An important part of

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Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre productions will be streamed online on 12,13,17, 18 June

The organisers of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival – the first large theatre festival in Central and Eastern Europe to be organised online in 2020, have organised an online special edition, “Empowered”, which will be streamed for free on Facebook, YouTube, and via its website. Two of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s productions will be streamed online: The

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Baaba’s Footsteps Three eras – Two women – One Struggle: 10 to 15 March 2020 near Waterloo

Baaba’s Footsteps, by British-Japanese playwright Susan Momoko Hingley, is a new play premiering at the Vault Festival 2020. Baaba’s Footsteps tells the story of two Japanese women from different eras who travel to San Francisco in search of a better life.  The protagonist’s present day story is woven together with the story of Japanese Picture

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"Ainu" Othello: Shakespeare's masterpiece given a Japanese revival, 7 to 10 August 2019

Free tickets for teenagers!
There will be ten free tickets available for each performance for teenagers and their accompanying parents.
People hoping to get the free tickets should e-mail shimizu.takeshi@gmail.com – first come first served.

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CLOD ENSEMBLE presents 'Snow' as part of the Noh Reimagined Festival, 30 June 2018 at King's Place

CLOD ENSEMBLE is pleased to present ‘Snow’, a twenty-minute sound piece inspired by the restless spirits in Japanese Noh Theatre. ‘Snow’ will be one of three short pieces shown as part of ‘The Transformative Power of Mugen Noh’ during ‘Noh Reimagined’ Festival at Kings Place, London on Saturday 30 June 2018, 7.30pm. In a pre-show talk, Suzy Willson and Paul Clark will talk about their recent visit to Japan, which was supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

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"The Women of Ishikawa" performed by Doubtful Sound and The SOAS Minyo Group

The Women of Ishikawa, performed by Doubtful Sound and The SOAS Minyo Group: original tales from various sources, translated into English by Shinako Wakatsuki-Robinson. Showing 5th and 6th May at The Cat’s Back, SW18 1NN. The show is part of The Wandsworth Fringe Festival.

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