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Feature: When London looked to the Eastern sky

Last month, the Royal Court Theatre world-premiered a set of three original pieces in association with Tokyo’s New National Theatre, in an unprecedented collaboration between both venues. Guillermo Nazara offers us an insight look at this intricate venture, upon interviewing its dramaturgs and artistic directors, to guide us into the depths of this innovative project…

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6 February, 2023

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arts fusion, eastern culture, eriko ogawa, experimental theatre, fusion, hiroshima, japan, japanese culture, london, nagasaki, national theatre, new plays japan, royal court theatre, shoko matsumara, theodora ndlovu, tokyo, tomoko kataka, west end, young playwrights
Review of ‘The Mistake’: “Somebody had to make it”

One of the most horrific episodes in recent history relives onstage through the words and eyes of those who stood before it. Guillermo Nazara reviews this play dealing with the massacre of the Hiroshima bombing, to share this thoughts on this in-depth analysis about the people that lived through the terror but also the ones…

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2 February, 2023

English contents, Reviews

arcola, arcola theatre, atomic bomb, drama, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, fringe, hiroshima, hitler, japan, japanese culture, london, michael mears, nagasaki, nazi, nazism, off west end, rosamunde hutt, the mistake, world war ii