biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Stage director, born in Japan. He studied at the Seihari Theatre Company, and emerged as a leading light in Japanese avant-garde theatre with his work at Toyko's Small Basement Theatre. In 1974, he staged Romeo and Juliet as his first production for the Toho Company, followed by a series of classical works and numerous Japanese plays. In 1985 he created a sensation at the Edinburgh Festival with a vibrant, colourful, violent, Samurai-influenced production of Macbeth, followed by an open-air production in a Georgian courtyard of Euripides' Medea in 1986. Both productions were subsequently seen at the National Theatre in London, for which Ninagawa won the 1987 Olivier Award for director of the year. |
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