Production

Ninagawa Macbeth

October 19 – 26, 1990


Alternate Title Macbeth
Premiere US Premiere
Production Language Japanese
Country of Origin Japan
Description Achingly beautiful, emotionally gut-wrenching, this production by Japan's leading director is an unforgettable theatrical experience. Transplanting Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy of greed, murder, and madness from the royal rivalries of medieval Scotland to the Samurai wars of feudal Japan, Yukio Ninagawa fills the stage with the pageantry and color of Japan and the passionate drama of Shakespeare.
Identifier 1990f.00491
Season Fall 1990
VenueOpera House
author/playwrightWilliam Shakespeare
choreographerKinnosuke Hanayagi
costume designerJusaburo Tsujimura
lighting designerSumio Yoshii
producerTadao Nakane
set designer/decorKappa Senoh
sound designerAkira Honma
translator/interpretorYushi Odashima

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