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	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Ninagawa Yukio
		Yukio Ninagawa (1935-), one of Japan’s foremost theatre directors.
		Born in Kawaguchi, Yukio Ninagawa first aspired to be a painter but on leaving...
		Mishima Yukio, pseudonym of Kimitake Hiraoka (1925-1970), Japanese novelist, whose central theme is the dichotomy between traditional Japanese values...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Ninagawa_Yukio.html (92 words)

	National Theatre : Productions : Pericles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ninagawa does exquisite things with costumes and shafts of light and, when the Gowers are in full flow, gratuitous things with actors dressed as masked puppets; yet somehow it isn't distracting.
		Ninagawa's achievement is to give us a recognisable modern route into a fantastical and often far-fetched romance, without diminishing its potential to stoke our wonder when events take a turn for the miraculous.
		Ninagawa's resources seem endless; we seem to be watching a cast of hundreds, and the rich series of powerfully picturesque scenes is an ideal marriage of spectacle and true drama.
	www.nt-online.org /?lid=2909&dspl=reviews (1421 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Mishima at his most mesmerising
		YUKIO NINAGAWA is one of the world's great directors and a frequent visitor to these shores.
		Ninagawa's staging of the second piece, Yoroboshi (1960), actually ends with a frightening recording of Mishima's angry speech, delivered in full military dress from a balcony shortly before his ritual suicide.
		It is a spine-tingling ending to a play that combines a modern reworking of the Judgment of Solomon with a terrifying vision of apocalypse that must surely have been inspired by the fiery terror of the atomic bombs that fell on Japan 15 years before the play was written.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/06/29/btyoro29.xml (579 words)

	RSC King Lear on stage in Stratford theatre - ticket buying and theater guide
		Instead, he has hitched his wagon to the Japanese master, Ninagawa, who with every passing production seems a dismayingly shallower artist than the genius we took him to be when he made his first stunning impact here at the end of the eighties.
		Another problem were titters induced in the audience by director Yukio Ninagawa's eccentric staging of the tempest on the heath...
		And Ninagawa uses the scene to establish more than most directors do: rifts between all three daughters, Goneril's distaste for the husband she will try to have killed, Lear's total uninterest in her and, until she snubs him, his complacent joy in Cordelia.
	albemarle-london.com /rsc-kinglear2000.html (1173 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| A Japanese view of the Bard
		Ninagawa has already proved his Shakespearean credentials to the UK, when he wowed audiences in Edinburgh in 1985 with a samurai-inspired Macbeth.
		Ninagawa makes good use of a range of theatrical devices to point up their impotence.
		Ninagawa is the right person to breathe life into Shakespeare's work, but a different play may prove a more worthy mirror of his art.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2902745.stm (773 words)

	Kultureflash - Headlines from London
		In this talkshow, Holt speaks to Yukio Ninagawa about his direction of Pericles, which will be running for ten performances at the Olivier (Fri 28/03 to Sat 05/04).
		The return of the Ninagawa Company is eagerly anticipated after the rapturous celebration that their work has previously provoked in the British Press.
		Ninagawa himself was particularly admired for the beauty and visual intensity of his direction in previous pieces such as Macbeth and Medea.
	www.kultureflash.net /engines/print.asp?edition=38&event=769&subscriber= (192 words)

	village voice > theater > Yukio Mishima's 'Modern Noh Plays' by Michael Feingold
		If anything, Ninagawa's is an ultra-traditional theater, achieving effects that often seem startlingly fresh by reaching back before realism; his tradition is ultra-romantic, acknowledging realism but always pushing beyond it to put something emotionally larger onstage.
		That Ninagawa used these settings, like his actors, in non-realistic and unexpected ways, only means that he interprets his material vigorously, with no theoretical nonsense attached.
		Pulling the play one step further, Ninagawa supplied the latter on top of the script's gentler ending, overlapping the hero's return to silent apathy with a flamboyant sound-and-light evocation of Mishima's own last moments, when he attempted to lead his private army in a coup d'etat, was surrounded by Japanese defense forces, and committed seppuku.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0531,feingold1,66474,11.html (866 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Go east, sweet prince
		Yukio Ninagawa is coming to the Barbican to direct Michael Maloney as the oldest Hamlet in living memory.
		Maloney would not have been the most senior Hamlet in living memory when he was initially invited, in 2001, by the internationally eminent Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa to take on the role.
		The attraction for Ninagawa of doing yet another Hamlet so soon after his most recent one was bound up in the chance to work on the play in both the language and the land of Shakespeare.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/10/20/btnin19.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/10/20/ixartleft.html (1405 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| ARTS & LEISURE - NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa first came to Greece 21 years ago, it was an opportunity for him to find a new source of inspiration and for local audiences to see how an innovative director can bridge two ancient cultures using unconventional means.
		Ninagawa is coming back to the Herod Atticus this Thursday through Saturday to present a Cultural Olympiad production of Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex,” a tragedy which, he says, has been very much at the front of his mind since his youth.
		Yukio Ninagawa’s “Oedipus Rex” is on at the Herod Atticus Theater on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/news/civ_&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp?fdate=29/06/2004 (818 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		But the critical consensus is that neither Nigel Hawthorne nor his Japanese director, Yukio Ninagawa, have got beyond the foothills in the RSC production at the Barbican.
		Where I dissent from my colleagues is in their verdict on Ninagawa's production: it has an elegiac oriental beauty that I warmed to.
		Ninagawa's use of descending rocks and boulders in the storm-scene has been much mocked, but it conjures a world in which Nature's moulds are cracked.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3922982,00.html (842 words)

	Honorary Degrees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities, and Japanese theatre director, Yukio Ninagawa are to receive honorary degrees from the University.
		Yukio Ninagawa will receive the degree of Doctor honoris causa at a graduation ceremony to be held at The University of Edinburgh on Friday 17 July 1992.
		Yukio Ninagawa has particular links with Edinburgh and Scotland through his participation in the Edinburgh International Festival.
	www.cpa.ed.ac.uk /bulletinarchive/1991-1992/06/article_06.html (334 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Hamlet (Theatre Royal Nottingham and Touring)
		The tragedy of this Hamlet is that director Yukio Ninagawa's reputation has preceded him.
		Ninagawa's presentation appears to have been made ready for the stage in a very short time.
		However, Ninagawa's Elsinore isn't as intimidating a place as it ought to be; there are not enough control freaks there to explain why the younger characters become insane or do a Laertes and leave as fast as they can.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/hamletninagawanott-rev.htm (584 words)

	Domain of Culture - Cultural Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Yukio Ninagawa presents - for the first time ever outside Japan - Sophocles' most eminent play in three performances at the Odeon of Herod Atticus in Athens, July 1-3.
		It is not the first time that Ninagawa is seduced by the charm of the ancient Greek tragedy.
		Ninagawa's relation with the play dates back to 1976, when he first presented it at Nissei Theatre, he introduced an innovation by using a chorus of 160 actors.
	www.cultureguide.gr /events/details.jsp?Event_id=49860&catA=1 (528 words)

	village voice > theater > Yukio Ninagawa's Production of Macbeth, at BAM. by Alisa Solomon
		The impact of a culture of war is made most palpable in Ninagawa's casting of the leading couple: young, popular Japanese stars Toshiaki Karasawa and Shinobu Otake.
		The text is filled with paeans to manhood proved in combat—a man's wounds "smack of honor," to be cut down in battle is to "die like a man," to grieve is to "play the woman," and so on.
		Lady Macbeth's call to the gods to "unsex me here" seems in Ninagawa's production not so much the unnatural wish of a grotesque woman, but the obvious desire of a wife who wants to enter the game and play by the prevailing rules.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0250,solomon,40440,11.html (666 words)

	ticketservices.gr
		Ninagawa, who has directed in the past "Electra", "Medea" and "Greeks", (a three-part presentation of ten Greek tragedies), will direct for the third time during his long career "Oedipus Rex".
		As for the cast, Ninagawa trusted the leading parts in two famous Japanese actors: Mansai Nomura, a young dynamic Kyogen Theatre (a Noh comedy) and cinema actor, personates the contemporary Oedipus.
		This selection is totally justified by the director's intention to arrive at a kind of universality and portray a naked, frank human image by bringing together traditional and contemporary theatre sensibilities.
	www.ticketservices.gr /index.php?lang=en&p=2&id=19 (520 words)

	Macbeth at, a CurtainUp review
		Ninagawa’s casting of two young Japanese pop stars, Toshiaki Karasawa (Macbeth) and Shinobu Otake (Lady Macbeth) is a maneuver not without risk.
		Ninagawa is frequently asked to reconcile his Macbeth with NYC’s 9/11.
		During the BAMdialogue that preceded the evening’s production, Ninagawa answered the question obliquely offering that "perhaps like Prospero I want to unite the world and the people." Certainly, it is reassuring that after the desolation of Macbeth, that we find a new optimism and a time for peace.
	www.curtainup.com /macbethbam2002.html (603 words)

	BBC - Nottingham - Entertainment - Hamlet
		Yukio Ninagawa's production of Hamlet at the Theatre Royal is both striking and thought-provoking.
		Ghosts and murder and incest and grief are all things he can't control – he even needs the play within the play to prove to himself that his father's ghost was really there.
		This Hamlet is a thinking man and Ninagawa gives us a version of the play which makes us think as well as feel.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/content/articles/2004/12/01/entertainment_theatre_and_dance_reviews_hamlet_event_feature.shtml (419 words)

	Sir Nigel Hawthorne Fanpage - King Lear Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It says much for the reputation of director Yukio Ninagawa that the Royal Shakespeare Company elected to make its first international collaboration with him, staging a version of King Lear first in Japan and, from later this week, at London's Barbican.
		So, too, was Ninagawa's fearsome reputation (he has been known to throw ashtrays at those who don't reach his demanding standards).
		From day one, rehearsals were more akin to a traditional dress rehearsal: it was assumed that the actors knew their lines and that the purpose was to refine physical interaction and their understanding of the set - inspired by Japanese Noh and Kabuki theatre.
	users.skynet.be /fa419863/archive/lear2.html (905 words)

	Edinburgh Guide Theatre review - Hamlet - Yukio Ninagawa directs for Theatre Royal Plymouth/Thelma Holt
		The director was the relatively unknown Yukio Ninagawa.
		Throughout scenes are punctuated by sudden ringing bells and thunderclaps while the ensemble in sumptuous costumes in red, fl and white in the fl box set create a vividly surreal world of Elsinore.
		Ninagawa is renowned for visually exciting large scale productions with brilliant use of light, sound, imagery, movement and music.
	www.edinburghguide.com /aande/theatre/reviews_04_on/h/hamlet_ninagawa.shtml (641 words)

	When Vulgarity Went East - August 1, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper
		Yukio Ninagawa likes it when things fall down.
		Ninagawa's reputation for elegance, was the studied tackiness of the gesture.
		Ninagawa, and Yukio Mishima, the playwright, both locate vulgarity extremely specifically, in the West.
	www.nysun.com /article/17843 (242 words)

	GO Brooklyn
		In The Ninagawa Company's "Macbeth," at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House Dec. 4-7, this stark brutality is augmented by the mirrored surfaces of the sets (designed by Tsukasa Nakagoshi) that multiply the bloody bodies and severed heads.
		Ninagawa believes that although "Macbeth" will be performed in Japanese translation (with English surtitles), audiences will "still be moved by Shakespeare's appealing and beautiful language."
		But Ninagawa is not only working with a Japanese translation, he is also working with and within the Asian tradition.
	www.go-brooklyn.com /html/issues/_vol25/25_47/macbeth.html (610 words)

	:: Scottish Theatre Website :: Reviews :: Hamlet :: Review by Mhari Hetherington :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Yukio Ninagawa, the director famous for his intercultural productions of Shakespeare's plays brings his most recent production of Hamlet to Edinburgh.
		This excellent production, which uses an edited version of Shakespeare's original English language text, tells the story of the young Prince of Denmark, supposedly driven mad by his father's death, brought to life by an outstanding twenty-one member cast, all of whom bring passion and conviction to their often horrendously complex roles.
		Set in a never-time, costumes and characters are highlighted strongly against the stark contrast of the set, Ninagawa gets on with telling the story, and he does it marvelously.
	www.users.madasafish.com /~mhari/ninagawa_hamlet (191 words)

	Sir Nigel Hawthorne : Theatre : King Lear Commentaries
		In his own language Yukio Ninagawa's contributions to the works of William Shakespeare have been internationally acknowledged, and our company has been privileged to be part of his endeavours now for more than a decade.
		Together with Mr Ninagawa, I would like to express our greatest gratitude to all who helped to enable this project to be realized, especially Ms Thelma Holt, without whose devotion it could not have happened.
		The set for Ninagawa's King Lear is a space inspired by the noh stage, noh being a form of Japanese classical theatre.
	www.yessirnigel.com /commentaries.html (1241 words)

	surfing in Tokyo with the ravens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At Ninagawa's invitation David (left) and Sean followed rehearsals of FALLING FRUIT, a new play which ran at the Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo, from the beginning to the play's opening night.
		Yukio Ninagawa first delighted British audiences with his samurai production of MACBETH.
		Ninagawa (top left) is seen here with the cast of FALLING FRUIT.
	www.users.dircon.co.uk /~adam-b/tokyo.htm (192 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: Spring 2003 at the National
		This period also sees the return of Janet McTeer to play the title role in The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Phyllida Lloyd; Yukio Ninagawa with his renowned Japanese company presenting Shakespeare's rarely performed Pericles; and Eileen Atkins and Corin Redgrave in the UK premiere of Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's Honour, directed by Roger Michell.
		Directed by Yukio Ninagawa, the cast includes Masaaki Uchino, Yuko Tanaka, Kayoko Shiraishi, Tetsuro Sagawa and Masachika Ichimura.
		Yukio Ninagawa first visited the National with his celebrated productions of Macbeth and Medea in 1987, returning with Suicide for Love in 1989.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/RNTspring2003.htm (677 words)

	Playbill News: Japanese Company to Bring Pericles to London’s National
		Now, Yukio Ninagawa, who first visited the National with his celebrated productions of Macbeth and Medea in 1987, returning with Suicide for Love in 1989, is to bring his production of Shakespeare's Pericles to the Olivier Theatre at the National for a ten-performance run, March 28-April 5.
		Ninagawa was awarded an honorary CBE in 2002, and will bring his theatre company with him to the National.
		Pericles is translated by Kazuko Matsuoka, directed by Yukio Ninagawa, with a cast that includes cast Masaaki Uchino, Yuko Tanaka, Kayoko Shiraishi, Tetsuro Sagawa and Masachika Ichimura.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/78265.html (360 words)

	Review of Shintoku-Maru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In terms of creating captivating stage images which seem able to connect directly with the emotions, Yukio Ninagawa is one of the most consistently inspirational directors in the world.
		Since the revelations that were his productions of Macbeth and Medea in the Edinburgh Festival a decade ago, Ninagawa has made a more or less annual series of visits to these shores under the aegis of producer Thelma Holt.
		Ninagawa seems to have applied himself to each segment of Terayama's rich and puzzling text without having found a unifying vision.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/97082.htm (245 words)

	RSC : Titus Andronicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Ninagawa Company produced by Horipro Inc in association with Thelma Holt.
		Continuing the RSC’s long association with legendary director, Yukio Ninagawa, The Complete Works Festival hosts his critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, with its visually stunning imagery and aesthetic fusing of Eastern and Western traditions.
		While not one drop of real blood is shed on stage, this magnificent production proves that the blood drained from our hearts is without measure.
	www.rsc.org.uk /onstage/plays/2192.asp (92 words)

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