Wildly imaginative … A Night at the Kabuki. After the dead lovers are found, “of course I think stop fighting”, says Noda, “but what happens in a week, a month, a year? If the issues between the two clans remain, they are not necessarily going to go away because these two lovers have died.” He was already working on another idea, exploring the aftermath of Romeo and Juliet, particularly on the play’s call for an end to war and enmity. Queen’s guitarist Brian May has spoken about the inherent theatricality of the album’s songs but Noda wasn’t so sure about the project when he was approached with the proposition. There is glamour too from four actors who are national megastars: Takako Matsu is a pop singer who voiced Elsa in the Japanese version of Frozen Takaya Kamikawa is a lead in CSI: Crime Scene Talks Suzu Hirose is a young, award-winning film and TV actor classed as the most promising of her generation while Jun Shison is a global brand ambassador for Gucci. A Night at the Kabuki boldly sets the old against the new there are lavish period kimonos and samurai swords alongside selfie sticks, fashion magazines and a sea of balloons in a show with plenty of kitsch and comedy. It is directed by Hideki Noda, who has written more than 50 plays and is also an actor and artistic director of Tokyo Metropolitan theatre, where we meet in a back office. The second act jumps to the 20th century when Japanese troops in the Soviet Union were interned in Siberian labour camps
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