Archives: Romance

11 August 2007 (Sat), Tokyo

A new play in Japanese by the prolific Inoue Hisashi about the life of Chekhov, whose works had a powerful effect on the development of modern Japanese drama. This is Inoue’s first show to be set outside of Japan. The starry cast included Otake Shinobu and Matsu Takako, either of whom could sell out a theatre on her own. With both, not to mention some other well-known veterans, tickets quickly became scarce for the unusually long two-month run.  Continue reading →