Asian Theatre Journal, March 22nd, 2004
By William Shakespeare. Directed by Ninagawa Yukio. The Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London, April 5, 2003. In Japanese with English supertitles.
What is it about Shakespeare's Pericles? How could a production of this seldom-seen, minor romance conclude with a standing ovation following twenty minutes of audible weeping by a London audience composed of typically nondemonstrative Britishers and a few Japanese tourists? Barring the reincarnation of Olivier himself, such things almost never happen at the National Theatre, where stiff upper lips and polite, limp applause are more of...
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