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Article: A Midsummer Night's Manga: An Anglo-Japanese Collaboration at The New National Theatre.(A Midsummer Night's Dream)(Theater review)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
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- March 22, 2008
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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 physical aspects of the performance. Fortunately spectacle looms large in A Midsummer Night's Dream and ...
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