Southeast Asia, and Shakespeare

The theatre of the confused: Tokyo

“…The instinct to adapt Shakespeare freely into various forms, drawn in part from abroad and in part from within Japanese culture, has marked Shakespearean performance in Japan. 6 There have from the beginning been vectors of intense conflict in Japanese theatre culture, but the battle lines are not drawn explicitly between East and West. In the theatre scene, one that often reflects the moods of immediate social and political concerns, the greater conflicts occurred internally.…”