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Sonezaki Shinju (Love Suicides at Sonezaki), and: Tsuri Onna (Fishing for a Wife) (review)

2001; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/tj.2001.0109

1086-332X

Elizabeth Klett,

Japanese History and Culture

This performance of two Kabuki plays, billed as Shochiku Grand Kabuki, was more than entertaining--it was an event of cross-cultural importance. As part of London's Japan 2001, a nation-wide celebration of Japanese culture, the Kabuki plays allowed their audiences to experience a non-Western art form in the context of cultural exchange. In the production program, Nakamura Ganjirô III, the artistic director of Chikamatsu-za, wrote that he hoped "to contribute to the mutual understanding of culture between Britain and Japan," while Sadayuki Hayashi, the Japanese ambassador, believed the performance would "promot[e] and deepe[n] friendship and understanding between our two countries."