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STAGE REVIEWS : Japanese Theater--a Ritual in Real Discipline

When we think of Japanese theater, we first think of the great ancestral forms--Kabuki, Noh, bunraku.

Discipline is their ground-note. When a Kabuki actor crosses his eyes in a mie (the Grand Kabuki will be back at the Japan America Theatre next week, by the way, starting Wednesday), we think of a baseball pitcher bearing down. Maximum force, maximum control.

What would Japanese avant-garde theater be like? Less formal? More personal? A little more personal, perhaps. There were some “private moments” in Shogo Ohta’s “The Water Station” at the JAT last weekend that would have raised eyebrows even in a Lee Strasberg class: bathroom moments, actually.

But the agonizing slowness with which each player approached the trickling spigot told us that we were involved in some kind of ritual here. That was also the signal of the strange scuttling movements of the kimono-clad actors in Tadashi Suzuki’s “The Tale of Lear” Tuesday night at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

But unlike the time-honored codes of Kabuki, these were new theater rituals, devised by the author-director of each piece. Both men have their own companies and training centers back in Japan, and both have found considerable fame on the international fes

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Body and Space

“As I was constantly searching for ways to achieve my creative goals, I went against these tendencies and decided to work without sacrificing my ideals.”
(Suzuki Tadashi: Culture is the Body1)

Suzuki Tadashi’s theatrical thinking and philosophy is extremely complex and multifaceted. His work is constantly in contact with tradition, which he constantly questions, reimagines and represents according to the socio-cultural context and problems of the present. In order to resolve the paradox in the title, I first need to present Suzuki’s oeuvre from a broader perspective, and then turn to the relationship between body and space, showing how the director anticipates the thinking of his time.2

Suzuki’s track record is an inspiration in itself. Joining the Waseda Jiyū Butai, the theatre circle at Waseda Jiyū University in Tokyo, he has been experimenting with theatrical expression since the 1950s. In contrast to the Japanese realistic theatre trend, the shingeki, he sought his own theatrical thinking and formal language in his early theatre works. In the 1960s, after leaving the university group, he founded first Jiyū Butai and then Waseda Shōgekijō in 1966 (Goto 1988, 46). Although the critical reception of his performances was not always favourable at first, the