The is a
theatre company
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
based in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
, founded by
Tsuneari Fukuda
was a Japanese dramatist, translator, and literary critic. From 1969 until 1983, he was a professor at Kyoto Sangyo University. He became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1981.
His criticism of the pacifist Japanese establishment of the ea ...
in 1976.
Overview
The origin of the troupe can be traced back to 1963, when playwright Fukuda first established the
Kumo Theatre Company
The was a Japanese theatre company that staged Western-style plays. In 1963, its members split from the Bungakuza company to form their own troupe in response to what they viewed as their former troupe's overly leftist politics.
In 1976, the ...
together with
Hiroshi Akutagawa
is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.
Possible writings
Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*浩, "meaning"
*汎
*弘,
*宏,
*寛,
*洋,
*博,
*博一,
*博司,
...
. Akutagawa had quit the
Bungaku-za
is a Japanese theatre company. Along with the Mingei Theatre Company and the Haiyuza Theatre Company it is considered one of the "Big Three" among Shingeki theatre troupes.
History
The company was founded by Kunio Kishida, Mantarō Kubota a ...
to join Fukuda, accompanied by 31 actors. Fukuda pursued the conservative, literary realization through performances of major Shakespeare plays. Subaru was formed in 1976, as a merger and reformation with its sister theatre company Keyaki.
The theatre has staged 115 performances between 1976 and 2006. Yet "with its solid ensemble and original titles while opposing commercialism", their homebase ''sanbyaku nin'' theatre could not be saved from being shut down, due to deterioration.
Subaru Theatre Company Productions in 2008
* ''ano natsu, shonen ha ita'',
["There he was, that summer" (あの夏、少年はいた)] 2008
* ''Julius Caesar'', 2008
* ''Half Life'', 2008
* ''A Christmas Carol'', 2008
* ''The Nun'', 2008
* ''Flowers for Algernon'', 2008
References
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External links
The Theatre Company Subaru
Theatre in Japan