20-02-2025
Directing is never a monologue at the experimental Yamanote Jijosha theater company
Amid a boom in small theater groups in 1980s Tokyo, the Waseda University campus emerged as the epicenter for companies that would go on to become established in the theater scene. The
Yasuda and his team have built an international reputation for Yamanote Jijosha's collaborative philosophy of theater, its Yamanote Method for actor training and its
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nonrealism acting style. In 2013, Yasuda's work with his company earned him the Special Achievement Award at the influential Sibiu International Theater Festival in Romania, the third-largest of its kind in the world.
Yamanote Jijosha has toured Europe with Shakespeare productions such as 'Titus Andronicus' and 'The Tempest,' and staged other classics by the Bard such as 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' as well as Chekhov's 'The Seagull' and a dramatized version of influential 14th-century Italian story collection 'The Decameron.'
