Chi65
Mar 4, 2008, 21:41
For those in Berlin and Europe in general, to watch out, since they are touring around, this is the announcement from our famous Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of the World Cultures), which at present focuses on Asia :
http://www.hkw.de/en/div/veranstaltungen/Veranstaltungsdetail_21777.php
Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka | Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami
Kabuki experience with the Heisei Nakamura-za ensemble
(With English and German simultaneous translation.)
We 14.05.2008 19:30h
Thu 15.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Fri 16.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Sa 17.05.2008 14:30h available tickets online
Sa 17.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Su 18.05.2008 14:30h available tickets online
Su 18.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Mo 19.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Tue 20.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
We 21.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
For the first time in more than 15 years, the traditional Japanese theatre Heisei Nakamura-za will be performing at the House of World Cultures. Following guest performances in New York, they will be presenting Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka for the first time ever in Europe. 'Theater that keeps adrenalin pumping,’ wrote the New York Times in 2004.
Popular theatre of the highest aesthetic quality: This is what Kabuki has stood for ever since Nakamura Kanzaburo - the Japanese star actor, leading man, and director of the 118-year-old Tokyo theatre Kabuki-za – who represents the 18th generation of a theatre dynasty, embraced this tradition and changed it in the process.
For over 400 years now, ritualised forms of acting have been handed down from father to son, until the successful film and television actor Nakamura Kanzaburo devoted his life to introducing Kabuki to the age of the mangas and animés and making it world famous.
With his ensemble Heisei Nakamura-za, Nakamura Kanzaburo has succeeded in combining opulent images and brilliant acting with slapstick, high tension and surprising incursions of reality. The stage at the HWC will be transformed into a traditional Edo theatre within five days. One-hundred-and four of the theatre ensemble’s actors and technicians will be coming to Berlin, and approximately twenty actors will take to the stage. In line with tradition, the women’s roles will be played by men: the costumes and the masks are an art in themselves.
The action in Summer Festival: Mirror of Osaka is based on the Don Quichote motif: In their endeavour to safeguard the fame and honour of ‘their’ caste, three would-be Samurais, who are fishmongers in real life, find themselves heading straight for disaster. A character study, stage event, carnival, street theatre – all at the same time! Heisei Nakamura-za’s performance promises to be a unique Kabuki experience!
In Berlin Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka is being presented by the Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft(!), Mediapool and the House of World Cultures.
Enjoy, you may als find more about Asia on their pages right now;-)
http://www.hkw.de/en/div/veranstaltungen/Veranstaltungsdetail_21777.php
Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka | Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami
Kabuki experience with the Heisei Nakamura-za ensemble
(With English and German simultaneous translation.)
We 14.05.2008 19:30h
Thu 15.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Fri 16.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Sa 17.05.2008 14:30h available tickets online
Sa 17.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Su 18.05.2008 14:30h available tickets online
Su 18.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Mo 19.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
Tue 20.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
We 21.05.2008 19:30h available tickets online
For the first time in more than 15 years, the traditional Japanese theatre Heisei Nakamura-za will be performing at the House of World Cultures. Following guest performances in New York, they will be presenting Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka for the first time ever in Europe. 'Theater that keeps adrenalin pumping,’ wrote the New York Times in 2004.
Popular theatre of the highest aesthetic quality: This is what Kabuki has stood for ever since Nakamura Kanzaburo - the Japanese star actor, leading man, and director of the 118-year-old Tokyo theatre Kabuki-za – who represents the 18th generation of a theatre dynasty, embraced this tradition and changed it in the process.
For over 400 years now, ritualised forms of acting have been handed down from father to son, until the successful film and television actor Nakamura Kanzaburo devoted his life to introducing Kabuki to the age of the mangas and animés and making it world famous.
With his ensemble Heisei Nakamura-za, Nakamura Kanzaburo has succeeded in combining opulent images and brilliant acting with slapstick, high tension and surprising incursions of reality. The stage at the HWC will be transformed into a traditional Edo theatre within five days. One-hundred-and four of the theatre ensemble’s actors and technicians will be coming to Berlin, and approximately twenty actors will take to the stage. In line with tradition, the women’s roles will be played by men: the costumes and the masks are an art in themselves.
The action in Summer Festival: Mirror of Osaka is based on the Don Quichote motif: In their endeavour to safeguard the fame and honour of ‘their’ caste, three would-be Samurais, who are fishmongers in real life, find themselves heading straight for disaster. A character study, stage event, carnival, street theatre – all at the same time! Heisei Nakamura-za’s performance promises to be a unique Kabuki experience!
In Berlin Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka is being presented by the Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft(!), Mediapool and the House of World Cultures.
Enjoy, you may als find more about Asia on their pages right now;-)