Theatre Company Subaru
The Theatre Company Subaru (劇団昴, gekidan subaru) is a theatre company based in Tokyo, Japan, founded by Tsuneari Fukuda in 1976.
Overview[edit]
The origin of the troupe can be traced back to 1963, when playwright Fukuda first established the Kumo Theatre Company together with Hiroshi Akutagawa. Akutagawa had quit the Bungaku-za to join Fukuda, accompanied by 31 actors. Fukuda pursued the conservative, literary realization through performances of major Shakespeare plays. Subaru was formed in 1976, as a merger and reformation with its sister theatre company Keyaki.[1]
The theatre has staged 115 performances between 1976 and 2006. Yet "with its solid ensemble and original titles while opposing commercialism",[2] their homebase sanbyaku nin theatre could not be saved from being shut down, due to deterioration.
Subaru Theatre Company Productions in 2008[edit]
- ano natsu, shonen ha ita,[3] 2008
- Julius Caesar, 2008
- Half Life, 2008
- A Christmas Carol, 2008
- The Nun, 2008
- Flowers for Algernon, 2008
References[edit]
- ^ Ortolani, Benito (1995). The Japanese theatre. Princeton University Press. pp. 255–256. ISBN 0-691-04333-7.
- ^ "劇団昴「うつろわぬ愛」で再出発" [Theatre Subaru -A restart with Chekhov]. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). asahi.com. 2007-07-23. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "There he was, that summer" (あの夏、少年はいた)