Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653 – 1725) is extensively thought of crucial playwright in Japanese historical past, and particularly, within the 12 performs initially written by him that proceed to be carried out on the kabuki stage.
In 1981, Nakamura Ganjirō III, later Sakata Tōjūrō IV, based the Chikamatsu-za to revive Monzaemon’s performs, staging them as intently to the unique textual content as potential. According to Tōjūrō IV himself, the thought was recommended to him by Laurence Olivier once they met in 1971 in Manchester, as a Japanese equal of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre. Sadly, the Chikamatsu-za stopped touring yearly within the 2000s, and it appears to have now basically disbanded.
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