Noh-Opera MACBETH: Shakespear meets Noh!

Have you ever imagined Shakespear meets Japanese traditonal theatrical art? Well, here's your chance to see it happen - an aspiring production goes on stage in Williamsburg this week!!

So this is east meets west, as well as classical meets contemporary (all music newly composed by young Japanese composer Akiko Asai), traditional meets avant-garde, and gallery meets opera.

Also noteworthy is that traditional Noh dancers will fly in all the way from Tokyo to collaborate with local NYC-based musicians.

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Noh-Opera "Macbeth": A Project for Contemporary Noh Performance
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Japan's young artists take on a daring challenge with the adaptation of Shakespeare's drama and Western based contemporary music into Japanese traditional theatrical art, Noh.

Four performances scheduled @ Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
135 Broadway, Brooklyn NY 11211
http://www.wahcenter.org

April 9th (Fri) 8pm
April 10th (Sat) 3pm & 8pm
April 11th (Sun) 3pm *Post Performance Talk

Admission: $15

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KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORE
10 West 49th Street, New York, NY 10020

Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
135 Broadway, Williamsburg Brooklyn 11211
718-486-7372 / 718-486-6012
[email protected]
http://www.wahcenter.org

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Contact: Jo Kizawa
347-489-1841 or [email protected]
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[Cast & Staff]

Shiro Nomura (Intangible cultural master of Noh authorized by Japanese Government)


Macbeth : Ryoko Aoki
Lady Macbeth : Genkuro Hanayagi
McDuff : Mikifu Hanayagi


Macbeth : Tetsuya Arime
Lady Macbeth : Kyoko Nagasaki
McDuff : Joko Ando
Banquo : Masami Morimoto

Chorus:
Manami Hattori, Kenta Darley-Usmar (soloists)
Yuzuko Yoshii, Yui Kitamura, Kai Keiko, Hiroshi Uehara, Jose E Torres-Cooban, Masami Morimoto (ensemble)


Chi-Chung Ho, conductor
Haruka Fujii, Yuri (censored) and Chris Thompson, percussion
Makia Matsumura, piano
Akiko Asai, composer


Kako Yamaguchi, producer
Jo Kizawa, assistant producer
Kanako Morita and Risa Yamakawa, stage managers
Rie Ono and Akira Nishio, lighting designers

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Presented and Produced by Akiko Asai and Josei-Noh Project Committee http://homepages.nyu.edu/~aa783/macbeth/