Yaneura – The Attic

• Main Author: Adam Broinowski
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2006-12-01
• Series: New Voices
• Subjects: play; performance; contemporary; theatre
• Online Access: http://newvoices.org.au/volume-1/yaneura-the-attic/

While at Shizuoka University as an undergraduate exchange student, I began my involvement in theatre by learning Noh (Kanze school) from Professor Ueda-Munakata, a specialist in adapting and producing Shakespeare’s plays in Noh style. After touring to Australia with him, I remained to write plays, perform with many theatre companies both in Australia and internationally (in styles ranging from acrobatics, dance, clown, physical theatre, realism and multi-media performance), direct productions, create installations and make a documentary on Japanese sub-cultures. In 2001, upon receipt of a Japan Foundation artist’s fellowship, I returned to Japan to research avantgarde theatre. I was invited to become a core member of Gekidan Kaitaisha, and I stayed in the country for the next five years.