A Midsummer Night's Manga: An Anglo-Japanese Collaboration at The New National Theatre.
| Publisher | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Publication | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Subject | Arts, visual and performing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0748-2558 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Todd Andrew Borlik |
| Reviewee | n/a | John Caird |
| Reviewee | n/a | Mural Kunio |
| Reviewee | n/a | Asami Rei |
| Reviewee | n/a | Kanda Sayaka |
| Reviewee | n/a | William Shakespeare |
| Reviewee | n/a | Cho Songha |
| Reviewee | n/a | Yoshimura Sunao |
A Midsummer Night's Manga: An Anglo-Japanese Collaboration at The New National Theatre, Tokyo, May 31-June 17, 2007
Attending a Shakespeare play in a foreign language can be like returning to a childhood home thirty years after one's family moved away; the architecture is the same but the ambiance is decidedly unfamiliar. Audience members less than fluent in the tongue--full disclosure: my knowledge of Japanese is rudimentary at best--will find that their attention drifts from Shakespeare's verbal pyrotechnics to fixate with greater acuity than usual on the visual and...
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