Seattle Novyi Theatre2009-09-25T23:26:45+09:00seattlenovyiwww.seattlenovyi.orgExcite BlogPlaying French Seattle 2009http://seanovyi.exblog.jp/12006721/2010-09-25T23:13:00+09:002009-09-25T23:26:45+09:002009-09-25T23:13:41+09:00seattlenovyiSpecial Announcement
Playing French Seattle 2009
Seattle Novyi Theatre is excited to announce that we have been invited to participate in the third annual Playing French Seattle 2009. We will be performing Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, directed by Leonid Anisimov with Amy Yeater as Winnie and Paul Layer as Willie. The performance dates are Thursday, October 29th, Friday, October 30th, and Sunday, November 1st. All performances start at 8PM.
Playing French Seattle 2009 is a wonderful opportunity to experience theatre in French and English featuring the work of playwrights Matei Visniec, Georges Feydeau and Honoré de Balzac and Samuel Beckett.
Festival Tickets are $25 and are available at Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82169
1-800-838-3006
We hope you can join us at Playing French Seattle 2009!
For immediate release:
Playing French Seattle 2009
Festival Tickets $25 at Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82169
Individual show tickets at door or contact Tom Ansart at:
Libchase@aol.com
Playing French Seattle 2009 to feature playwright Matei Visniec
The third annual festival of plays written in French language will feature the work of Romanian born playwright Matei Visniec. The festival runs October 19 - November 1 at the University of Washington 's Ethnic Cultural Theatre.
Two works by Visniec will be staged: "Le Deuxième Tilleul à Gauche" and "Old Clown Wanted." University of Washington doctorial candidate Otilia Baraboi will open the festival on October 20 and introduce Visniec's plays.
In September 1987, Visniec left Romania for France , where he was granted political asylum. His absurdist plays, written in French, have been staged in more than 30 countries. In Romania , after the fall of Communism, Matéi Visniec has become one of the most frequently performed authors.
This festival of absurdist plays by French and francophone playwrights also includes work by Georges Feydeau, Honoré de Balzac, and Samuel Beckett.
On October 21 Elles et Lui will stage an adaptation of three plays by Georges Feydeau, whose farcical plays are considered precursors to the Theatre of the Absurd. Entitled "Feydeau Composé" it is directed and written by Cecile Casanova and performed in French language.
Honoré de Balzac, novelist of "La Comedie Humaine," wrote five plays before his death in 1850. The last of which, "Le Faiseur," was accepted by the Comedie Française but not staged there until 143 years later, in 1993. This new bilingual (French /English) adaptation is directed by Steeplechase Producer Tom Ansart. The central character of the play, Mercadet, is a stock speculator who has been swindled by his business partner, Godeau. The play is a foreshadowing of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."
Finally Seattle Novyi Theatre will stage Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," directed by Leonid Anisimov, and starring Amy Yeater as Winnie, which closes the festival on Sunday, November 1.
For further information contact:
Tom Ansart, Producer, Steeplechase Productions/Playing French Seattle
libchase@aol.com
http://www.steeplechaseproductions.com/
Matei Visniec, playwright
visniec_m@yahoo.fr
Otilia Baraboi, University of Washington , French and Italian studies
otiliab@u.washington.edu
Cecile Casanova, director, "Feydeau Composé"
cecile.casanova@gmail.com
Roger Tompkins, director, "Old Clown Wanted"
rtompkins49@gmail.com
Paul Layer, Seattle Novyi Theatre
seattlenovyitheatre@yahoo.com]]>Seattle Novyi Repertory Theatrehttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/4635688/2009-12-31T22:02:00+09:002009-02-17T23:54:03+09:002006-05-11T17:02:27+09:00seattlenovyiSeattle Novyi
Welcome to Seattle Novyi Theatre!
Seattle Novyi Theatre (SNT) is a distinctive theater venture in Seattle offering an ongoing experiment in repertory theater on a local and international level. Our mission is to enhance the understanding of the human experience via theater and the Stanislavski System in an international and educational setting.
The child of a thirteen week 2006 workshop with “Honored Artist of Russia” Leonid Anisimov, SNT utilizes the Stanislavski System begun by Konstantin Stanislavski while collaborating with Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre during their production of The Seagull in 1896. The system that Stanislavski began working on and continued to cultivate for the remainder of his life is founded on an artistically natural process of acting that is best developed over time in a situation that allows for the practical application of his theories and philosophy. Unique from any theater in the USA , SNT put into practice Stanislavki’s concepts during our first year of repertory theater between March 2006 and March 2007 while offering weekly performances of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and Uncle Vanya in an intimate twenty-seat theater on the northern shores of Lake Washington . Our goal during that time was to explore theater using the Stanislavski System while bringing communication, inner life and re-living to the stage. SNT’s next repertory performances were weekly productions of Horton Foote’s “Dearest of Friends” in the Spring of 2008.
In addition to our commitment to provide repertory theater in Seattle and throughout the Puget Sound area, another unique aspect of our group is its international composition: Founding members of SNT include theater artists who now make their home in Seattle but originally come from the countries of Canada , Cuba , England , Israel , Japan and Russia .
Please tell your family and friends about Seattle Novyi Theatre, a shining jewel of creativity in Seattle . Come to our performances often and invite your friends! Please leave your contact information at the door so that we may contact you with more details about our performance schedule.
Many thanks for being part of our journey. May we all learn to fly in theater and in life!
2009
Seattle Novyi Theatre Presents Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at TPS in the Seattle Center House. Happy Days is Beckett's continued pursuit of the meaning of existence probing the tenuous connections that bind one person to another in the relationship between Winnie and Willie. Seattle Novyi Theatre (SNT) is a distinctive theatre project in Seattle, and was created from a thirteen week workshop in 2006 with Honored Artist of Russia Leonid Anisimov. SNTs mission is to enhance the understanding of the human experience via theater and the Stanislavski System in an international and educational setting.
Leonid Anisimov: Director
Cast:
Amy Yeater: Winnie
Paul Layer: Willie
FOR TICKETS contact Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006 or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/54451
Tickets are $20 / $15 for students and seniors, and can be purchased at the door and by reservation on a first come first serve basis.
2008
contact us at seattlenovyitheatre@yahoo.com]]>Members 2009http://seanovyi.exblog.jp/10358637/2009-02-16T00:00:00+09:002009-02-17T23:50:29+09:002009-02-16T00:01:29+09:00seattlenovyiMembers
Devin Bartlett
Devin grew up in the lovely and beautiful confines of the glorious San Fernando Valley in sunny Southern California . He was able to cut his acting chops on a wide variety of TV shows and movies including The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Family Ties, Chicago Hope, ER, The Last Starfighter, Hook, The Buddy System, Beaches, Scarface, The Rock, and Beverly Hills Cop II prior to moving to Seattle. After a break from acting of several years, Devin returned as The Workman in Seattle Novyi Theatre’s production of Uncle Vanya, and Jack in The Dearest of Friends.
Corinne Bogan
Corinne co-directed Seattle Novyi Theatre's production of Uncle Vanya with Leonid Anisimov. She attended Cornish College of the Arts, and studied with Mark Jenkins at Freehold Theatre Lab & Studio. Corinne began training with Leonid Anisimov in January 2006, and can be seen as Polina in The Seagull. She participated in an internationally collaborative performance of Uncle Vanya (as Maria) during the International Festival of Classical Plays in Ussuriiskii , Russia in July 2007 as Mama in Uncle Vanya., which ended with a performance of The Seagull.
Paul Layer
Paul has been acting in, directing and producing theater in the Seattle area since 1989. He has been studying and using the Stanislavski System since 2001 when he began working with Leonid Anisimov. Under the direction of Mr. Anisimov he has appeared in The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Lower Depths in Seattle , Tokyo and Russia . Paul has participated in internationally collaborative performances and workshops in Yuda , Japan in 2001, Tokyo in 2003, and Ussuriiskii , Russia in 2007. He is also a member of the Tokyo Novyi Repertory Theater, and had the pleasure of sharing the stage with the beautiful artists of TNRT during their inaugural season.
Chikako Togashi
Born and raised in Sapporo, Japan, Chikako has been interested in theater since she was four years old, and performing with a shadow play group. The death of the leader of the Shadow Play group in 2007 brought back fond memories of her childhood, and motivated her to become involved in Seattle Novyi Theatre. She feels luck to be involved in SNT as she was not able to find something like this in her hometown. Chika gathers great energy living in Seattle and the USA , and will never tire of living here.
Amy Yeater
Amy is thrilled to be working in theater again after a 20 year hiatus. She appeared as Vonnie in SNT’s production of The Dearest of Friends prior to Winnie in Happy Days. She sends out much love and thanks to her boys – Kevin and Lewis, and all her friends who have been so supportive.]]>Samuel Beckett Infohttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/10358575/2009-02-15T23:50:00+09:002009-02-15T23:57:41+09:002009-02-15T23:51:45+09:00seattlenovyiSamuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture, and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist. As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is considered by many one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called "Theatre of the Absurd".
Beckett studied French, Italian, and English at Trinity College, Dublin from 1923 to 1927. After leaving Trinity, Beckett began to travel in Europe . He also spent some time in London , where in 1931 he published Proust, his critical study of French author Marcel Proust. In 1932, he wrote his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, but after many rejections from publishers decided to abandon it; the book would eventually be published in 1993. Despite his inability to get it published, however, the novel did serve as a source for many of Beckett's early poems, as well as for his first full-length book, the 1933 short-story collection More Pricks Than Kicks. In 1935—the year that Beckett successfully published a book of his poetry, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates—he was also working on his novel Murphy. Returning to Ireland briefly in 1937, he oversaw the publishing of Murphy (1938), which he himself translated into French the next year. He then decided to settle permanently in Paris . He joined the French Resistance after the 1940 occupation by Germany , working as a courier, and on several occasions was nearly caught by the Gestapo. Beckett was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation. He continued work on the novel Watt (begun in 1941 and completed in 1945, but not published until 1953) while in hiding in Roussillon .
Beckett is publicly most famous for the play Waiting for Godot. Like most of his works after 1947, the play was first written in French with the title En attendant Godot. Beckett worked on the play between October 1948 and January 1949. He published it in 1952, and premiered it in 1953. The success of Waiting for Godot opened up a career in theatre for its author. Beckett went on to write a number of successful full-length plays, including 1957's Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape (written in English), 1960's Happy Days (also written in English), and 1963's Play.
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for his "writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. He died in Paris of respiratory problems.
Of all the English-language modernists, Beckett's work represents the most sustained attack on the realist tradition. He, more than anyone else, opened up the possibility of drama and fiction that dispense with conventional plot and the unities of place and time in order to focus on essential components of the human condition.]]>Happy Days Director's Notehttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/10358535/2009-02-15T23:46:00+09:002009-02-17T23:52:11+09:002009-02-15T23:47:22+09:00seattlenovyiLeonid Anisimov
I have seen several productions of his plays, but they were cold and without any spirit. One exception was “Rockaby” with Marjorie Nelson in the one-woman play. It was melancholic, wise, beautiful and alive. (I remember confessing my love to Marjorie Nelson that night after watching her performance).
Destiny gave me a gift. I was given an opportunity to rehearse this play “Happy Days” filled with the talent and tenderness of American actors Paul and Amy in Tokyo . We shared many tears and laughter in each rehearsal.
I often think that maybe someday, maybe in one hundred years, we might be able to FEEL Beckett's or Chekhov's plays as they wished us to feel. But we must start…I believe someday someone will accomplish this feat. Until then…
Leonid Anisimov
Honored Artist Of Russia]]>UPCOMING PERFORMANCEShttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/8239131/2008-03-25T23:19:00+09:002009-02-15T01:15:35+09:002008-03-25T23:19:21+09:00seattlenovyiSchedule
The Dearest of Friends 2008
by Horton Foote
Friday, March 28
Saturday, April 5
Saturday, April 12
Friday, April 18
Saturday, May 3, 17, 24, 31
and Saturday, June 7
All performances are at 8:00 pm
Location: Art’s on Beacon Hill -- 4951 13th Avenue South
Tickets: General $15, Students & Seniors $12
– Tickets available at the door or call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 or go to: www.brownpapertickets.com]]>Supporthttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/7917257/2006-12-31T20:23:00+09:002008-01-09T01:26:41+09:002008-01-09T01:23:03+09:00seattlenovyiSupport
We at Seattle Novyi Theatre are asking for your support. This is an opportunity to increase the stature of Seattle as a beacon in international collaborative theatre arts.
Seattle Novyi Theatre (SNT) is a distinctive venture in theatre in Seattle , and was created from a thirteen week workshop in 2006 with Honored Artist of Russia Leonid Anisimov. SNT’s mission is to explore theatre in the Seattle area using the Stanislavski System, and bring communication, inner life and re-living to the stage. During its first year of performances, SNT offered weekly performances of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and Uncle Vanya in an intimate twenty-seat theater on the shores of Lake Washington .
Mr. Anisimov is the artistic director of the Tokyo Novyi Repertory Theatre, co-founder of the International Stanislavski Academy , and one of the few masters in the world to utilize the Stanislavski System to create what he calls “The Art of Re-Living.”
In addition to our commitment to provide repertory theatre in Seattle , a distinctive aspect of our group is its international composition. Co-founders of SNT now make their home in Seattle , but hail from the countries of Canada , Cuba , England , India , Israel , Japan and Russia . The theatre also enjoys ongoing collaborations with theatrical artists from Japan , Korea and Russia including participation in international theatre festivals in Yuda , Japan in 2001, Tokyo , Japan in 2003 and Ussuriiskii , Russia in 2007.
We have a number of exciting initiatives coming up over the next two years:
* Our 2008 Season: We’re planning our 2008-2009 season. In addition to continuing our productions of The Seagull and Uncle Vanya, SNT will expand its repertory to include two works by the American playwright, Horton Foote. We’ll keep you informed of our next season as it is scheduled.
* Travel expenses and artist fees to bring Leonid Anisimov to Seattle in December 2008: Our co-founder and Executive Artistic Director, Leonid Anisimov, is instrumental to the life and artistry of SNT. In December 2008, he would like to come to Seattle to rehearse a new play with us, and continue to develop our 2008-2009 season. He will also present public classes for Seattle actors and collaborate with other theatre groups in the Puget Sound area.
* The 2009 International Theatre Festival: During the Summer of 2009, we would like to sponsor a Seattle-area convocation of theatre artists from Japan , Russia , Korea and the United States . This unique collaboration will bring actors from around the world for performances and a conference as part of SNT’s international scope, and expose Seattle audiences to the fine work of our peer organizations worldwide.
* Develop Educational Outreach: Another exciting aspect of SNT is our ongoing commitment to working with students of all ages in the further understanding of theatre art. With this in mind, we are currently providing and developing classes offering training in the Stanislavski System.
Allied Arts of Seattle has allowed us to solicit tax-deductible contributions for the theatre’s general operations with their fiscal sponsorship. Your contribution of $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, or even more will be so appreciated, and be instrumental in advancing the work of Seattle Novyi Theatre.
In order to make your tax deductible gift to Seattle Novyi Theatre, please make your check out to Allied Arts/Seattle Novyi Theatre, and mail it to:
Allied Arts of Seattle
216 First Avenue S - Suite 253
Seattle , WA 98104
If you have any questions or would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact us via telephone at 206-753-8080, or email at seattlenovyitheatre@yahoo.com.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Sincerely,
Paul M. Layer
Co-Founder and Producer
Seattle Novyi Theatre]]>Festival in Russia in July 2007http://seanovyi.exblog.jp/7671277/2006-12-29T00:50:00+09:002007-12-17T01:21:39+09:002007-11-06T00:46:03+09:00seattlenovyiGallery in Russia
Paul, Corinne and Kristine performed Uncle Vanya with Japanese and Russian actors at the festival in Russia.
]]>Ticketshttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/4795117/2006-05-25T15:18:00+09:002009-02-15T01:13:44+09:002006-05-25T15:18:00+09:00seattlenovyiticket Uncle Vanyahttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/4768078/2006-05-23T04:26:00+09:002007-02-26T13:41:21+09:002006-05-23T04:26:45+09:00seattlenovyiUncle Vanya
Directed by Leonid Anisimov
Assistant Directed by Corinne Bogan
~ Cast of Characters ~
Serebryakov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, a retired professor
/ Leon Mattigosh
Yelena Andreevna , his wife
/ Anya Hanson, Erika Godwin
Sofya Aleksandrovna (Sonya), his daughter from a first marriage
/ Telisa Steen , Yoko Layer
Voynitskaya, Maria Vasilyevna, widow of the privy councillor, mother of the professor’s first wife
/ Wanda Moats, Corinne Bogan
Voynitsky, Ivan Petrovich (Vanya), her son
/ Paul Layer
Astrov, Mikhail Lvovich, a doctor
/ Erwin Galan , Robert Bertocchini
Telegin, Ilya Ilyich (Waffles), an impoverished landowner
/ Tyler Rhoades , Robert Bertocchini
Marina, the old family nurse
/ Kristine Knutson
A Workman
/ Erwin Galan , Robert Bertocchini , Devin Bartlett
[#VIDEO|SLIDESHOW|seattlenovyi|1#]]]>The Seagullhttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/4768036/2006-05-23T04:11:00+09:002007-03-26T15:50:04+09:002006-05-23T04:11:58+09:00seattlenovyiThe Seagull
Directed by Leonid Anisimov
The action takes place on Sorin’s estate near Moscow. The first three acts happen within two weeks. Between Acts 3 and 4 there is an interval of two years.
~ Cast of Characters ~
Arkadina, Irina Nikolayevna, (Madame Trepleva), an actress
/ Yoko Layer
Teplev, Konstantin Gavrilovich ,Her son, a young man
/Joe Feeney , Tyler Rhoades
Sorin, Pyotr Nikolayevich, her brother
/Leon Mattigosh
Zarechnaya, Nina Mikhailovna, a young girl, the daughter of a wealthy landowner
/ Erika Godwin , Anya Hanson , Yoshiko Nakazawa( on March 10, 15 )
Shamrayev, Ilya Afanasyevich, a retired lieutenant, Sorin’s manager
/ Robert Bertocchini
Polina Andreyevna, his wife
/ Corrine Bogan , Lynne Compton
Masha, his daughter
/ Kristine Knutson
Trigorin, Boris Alekseyevich, a writer
/ Paul Layer
Dorn, Yevgney Sergeyevich, a doctor
/ Peter Sorensen
Medvedenko, Semyon Semyonovich, a schoolmaster
/Joe Feeney , Tyler Rhoades , Subash Gutala , Erwin Galan
There will be a 15 minute intermission between Acts 2 and 3.]]>Acting classeshttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/6376173/2006-05-14T07:02:00+09:002008-01-09T00:31:04+09:002007-01-23T07:02:07+09:00seattlenovyi未分類
* Inner Action
* Visualization
* Judgment
These will greater enhance the students ability to communicate to their partners on stage, and discover unique pathways into the suggested circumstances of the play and their own imagination.
Workshop Information and Location
Location: University Heights Community Center
Wednesday 4:00PM – 6:00PM
Saturday 10AM – 1PM
January 19 – March 13, 2007
Grades 6-9
Cost: $300
Workshop Theme: Scenes from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and other plays
The workshop will be taught by Paul Layer and Corinne Bogan
Paul is an actor, producer and one of the founding members of SNT. He has studied the Stanislavski System with Honored Artist of Russia, Leonid Anisimov since 2001, and over the last seven years has implemented aspects of the system developed by Stanislavski in productions of The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Lower Depths with Art Theatre of Puget Sound, Tokyo Novyi Repertory Theatre, and SNT. Additionally, Paul taught acting classes in Tokyo using the Stanislavski System in 2004-05. From 1987 through 2000 he appeared in plays in various theatres throughout the Puget Sound area.
Corinne is an actor, director and is also one of the founding members of SNT. She has studied the Stanislavski System with Leonid Anisimov since 2006, and has implemented aspects of the system developed by Stanislavski while acting in The Seagull and co-directing Uncle Vanya.
For further information please contact either Paul or Corinne at:
(206) 331-6944 (Paul)
(206) 793-4586
seattlenovyitheatre@yahoo.com
www.seattlenovyi.org]]>Symposium - The Road Toward Inspirationhttp://seanovyi.exblog.jp/6147226/2006-05-12T17:56:00+09:002007-02-04T17:56:36+09:002006-12-05T17:56:28+09:00seattlenovyiSymposium in Tokyo
left to right: Hirohito Kamize (translator), Leonid Anisimov, Sozo Tosaka (translator), Toshiko Toriyama
1. What is inspiration? Does it really exist?
Is there another word for it?
2. What is the relationship between inspiration and art?
Is inspiration necessary in theatre, film, or any kind of art?
Can art exist without it?
3. What is the way or road toward inspiration?
4. What kind of effect does inspiration have on life?
A panel of Japanese, Russian, Korean & American artists, philosophers and teachers was joined by approximately 150 people from theatres and schools around Japan to contemplate and discuss these questions.
left to right: Hyo Hirota (MC), Toji Kamata, Tatsuo Kaneshita, Ken Itoh
The following is the translation from the program for the Symposium:
The Japanese panelists were:
Ken Itoh
TV documentary director, and director of the documentary film "Song of the Island - Thousands of Islands"
Mr. Itoh was born in Matsumoto city, Nagano prefecture in 1967. After he studied Urban Sociology centered on field works in the Department of Sociological Studies at Rikkyo University, he started to work as an announcer at NHK (the Japanese national television and radio broadcast company) in 1991. He also directed documentary programs and covered news when he encountered "To Live in Aga" by Makoto Satou, which convinced him of the higher possibilities of documentary films. He left NHK in 1997, and joined a program production company, Telecom Staff. Since then, he has directed many documentary TV programs.
His work includes:
"Song of the Island - Thousands of Islands"
"Mountains and Rivers Without End (Snyder, Gary and SKYPerfecTV!)
“Songs Do Walk” (Nanao Sakaki and SKYPerfecTV!)
“Word Trip Toward My Heart – Mizmal Anzai / Southern Areas of the USA” (NHK – BS2)
“This Wonderful Spaceship Called Earth / Native Americans” (TV Asahi)
“High-Vision TV Special Program – 9/11 – Four Years of Bereaved Japanese Families” (NHK – BS-hi)
The website for “Song of the Island – Thousands of Islands”:
http://www.telecomstaff.co.jp/shimanouta/index.html
Tatsuo Kaneshita
Playwright/Director
Mr. Kaneshita was born in Hokkaido in 1964. He graduated from the Nippon Engineering College, and the actor’s training school of Seinenza Theater Company. He established “Theater Production Company The Gazira” in 1987. Its first performance “Once Upon A Time In Kyoto” (Jels Hall in Tokyo) won the Jels Circuit Grand Prize. He has established himself as a playwright and director since that time.
Mr. Kaneshita won the Rookie of the Year award at the 42nd Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize for “Tatsuya – Side of the Beloved” in 1992, and the Individual Prize at the 32nd Kinokuniya Theatre Awards for “POW – Prisoner of War” and “Samuhana”, which he wrote and directed himself in 1997.
He also won the Grand Prize and the Best Director Prize at the 5th Yomiuri Theatre Awards for his four plays “POW – Prisoner of War”, “In Front of the Greenhouse” (by Kunio Kishida), “Release on Parole” (by Akira Yoshimura), and “The Bottom” (by Masataka Matsuda).
Mr. Kaneshita creates theater works that always look at Japan while expanding the breadth of his career in many fields.
The website for Theater Production Company The Gazira:
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~cottone/gajira.html
Toji Kamata
Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design / Shinto Songwriter
Mr. Kamata was born in Tokushima Prefecture in 1951. He graduated from Kokugakuin University, Department of Literature, Philosophy Section, and completed a Doctoral course at the same university with a degree in Shintoism. He won Rookie of the Year at the Shintoism and Religion Society Research Encouragement Awards for “Legend of the Water God.” He was awarded with a Joint Research Prize in 1990 by the Japan Child Care Society Research Encouragement Awards. He was a joint research member and visiting assistant professor at the International and Japanese Culture Research Center from 1989 to 2000. He served as Celtic studies visiting researcher at Dublin (Ireland) University in 1995.
Mr. Kamata formed a music unit called “Unit of Origin Soul of Sound” in May 1998, and started his career as a stone-pipe player. He appeared as a “Shinto songwriter”, and released his first CD in December 1998, and composed 200 songs that year. He performs live at venues around Japan.
He obtained his PhD (Literature) at the University of Tsukuba with “Comparative Religious Research on Spirit of the Words” in March 2001. He is now a professor at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, and Chief Director of NPO Tokyo College of Liberty. His specialties are philosophy of religion, folklore, and history of Japanese thought.
His books include: “Theory of an Old Man and Child”, Fieldwork of the Gods World”, “The Spirituality of Shintoism”, “Curse Killing and Theory of Boundary of the Charm”, “Literature Magazine – Spirituality”, and “Spiritual Man.”
Toji Kamata’s Official Website: http://homepage2.nifty.com/moon21/index.html
Toshiko Toriyama
Chairwoman of NPO Tokyo Kenji’s School of Free Waldorf Shure
Ms. Toriyama graduated from the Department of Education at Kagawa University. Throughout her 30 year career as a public elementary school teacher in Tokyo, she developed progressive classes to stimulate the minds and bodies of children while studying the works of predecessors in related fields. She retired in 1994, and started to give workshops and lectures under the name of “Kenji’s School” speaking out on how to “connect our lives.” She searched for a system that a person could use to live their life as a whole at home and at school. She started to establish a new school with teachers and parents who were in sympathy with her ideas. Tokyo Kenji’s School started in April 2001, and she was in charge of the 6th grade, and the principal of the school. She also completed a one year special training course in Steiner Education for Japanese in Nuremburg, Germany in 2004.
Ms. Toriyama’s works include: “Making by Being Made”, “Kenji’s School”, and “Knowing Through the Body, the Strength to Live” (books); and “Natural Agriculture” and “To Hand Down the Mountains for Our Children” (documentary films).
The website for NPO Tokyo Kenji’s School of Free Waldorf Shure is:
http://www1.neweb.ne.jp/wa/kenji/
The Russian Panelists were:
Leonid Anisimov (biography appears elsewhere on this website)
Professor Yachin (biography to follow soon)
The American Panelists were Paul Layer, Yoko Layer, Corinne Bogan and Robert Bertocchini.
left to right: Paul , Yoko Osaka ( Actress and translator for Americans)
Theatre's friends in Japan
Tokyo Novyi Repertory Theatre is beginning its 3rd years, and we were privileged to see 3 rehearsals (The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull), and 4 performances (Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, At The Bottom and The Love Suicides at Sonezaki).
Party at Theatre
Robert & Paul are talking about SOMETHING? in the theatre.
Japanese translator( Russian and Japanese)- Mr.Tosaka.
We went to Kamakura with Leonid and some of Japanese actors.
Big Buddha!
Ocean - Kamakura
Chizu, Leonid, Yoko & Yoshiko
Leonid, Yoko & Corinne
Yoshiko, Corinne & Yoko
Corinne & Yoko
Corinne in front of Hase temple.
Corinne is very Happy!!
Robert Love JAPAN !!
Pual & Yoko shopping.
Japanese actors on the train.
Corinne, Paul, Robert on the train.
]]>About Anton Chekhov http://seanovyi.exblog.jp/4635664/2006-05-11T16:58:00+09:002007-01-27T10:44:52+09:002006-05-11T16:58:32+09:00seattlenovyiChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov
(29 January 1860 –15 July 1904) was a major Russian writer known primarily for his short stories and plays. Many of his short stories are considered the apotheosis of the form while his plays have had a great impact on dramatic literature and performance. From Chekhov, many contemporary playwrights have learned how to use mood, apparent trivialities and inaction to highlight the internal psychology of characters. Chekhov's four major plays— The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard —are frequently revived in modern productions.
Chekhov was born in Taganrog, a small provincial port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia on January 29, 1860. A son of a grocer and grandson to a serf who had bought his own freedom, Anton Chekhov was the third of six children. In 1879 Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School. During this time, he published hundreds of comic short stories, under the pseudonym Anton Chekhonte, in order to support himself and his mother, sisters and brothers.
Chekhov qualified as a physician in 1884, but continued writing for weekly periodicals while practicing medicine in Moscow, Melikhovo and Yalta. By 1886 Chekhov was becoming a well-known writer, but he still considered his writing a hobby.
Uncle Vanya is a tragicomedy by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov published in 1899. Its first major performance was in 1900 at the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. It was the second of four Chekhov plays that were presented (and the first to premiere) at the Moscow Art Theatre. The other three plays were: The Seagull, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.
"Uncle Vanya" is unique among Chekhov's major plays because it is essentially an extensive reworking of a play published a decade earlier, "The Wood Demon." "Uncle Vanya" was published in 1899, but it is difficult to determine when the work was originally finished, or when the revision process took place. Recent scholarship suggests that Chekhov may have revisited "The Woood Demon" during his trip to the island of Sakhalin, a prison colony in Eastern Russia, in 1891.
In 1901 he married Olga Leonardovna Knipper, an actress who performed in his plays. Chekhov died on July 15, 1904 in Badenweiler, Germany.]]>About Leonid Anisimov http://seanovyi.exblog.jp/4635680/2006-05-10T17:03:00+09:002007-01-29T05:53:14+09:002006-05-11T17:00:13+09:00seattlenovyiLeonid AnisimovLeonid Anisimov is an "Honored Artist of Russia," a title that represents his country's highest recognition of artistic achievement. Trained at the Moscow Art Institute, the artistic director of the Tokyo Novyi Repertory Theatre, The Ussuriysk Drama Theater, and co-founder of the International Stanislavski Academy, Anisimov is one of the few masters in the world to utilize the Stanislavski system to create what he calls "The Art of Re-living." His plays are known for simple, yet theatrical staging that emphasize the actor's ability to realize moments fully and truthfully.
Throughout his 15 years as Artistic Director of the Vladivostok Chamber Drama Theatre, Anisimov built a company repertoire of 15 plays. During the Chamber Drama Theatre's 1995 visit to Seattle, the Seattle Weekly described the acting in Anisimov's The Seagull as "moments laid lovingly down like pearls on velvet, each one shining with a rich luster," while The Stranger reported the production as "quite simply, what live theater should be". Anisimov and his company returned to Seattle in 1998 and performed The Lower Depths to sold-out houses at Freehold Theatre and the Tacoma Little Theatre. He directed local actors in the Art Theatre of Puget Sound's 1999 production of Uncle Vanya, and in 2001, The Cherry Orchard. Mr. Anisimov continues to lecture, teach, and direct in the United States, Japan, and Russia. Most recently, he taught at Cornish College, Freehold Theatre Lab, the University of Washington, the University of Puget Sound, Seattle Pacific University, Perezhhivanie Art Theatre and Theatre Kyo in Tokyo, and at the International Stanislavski Academy in Yuda, Japan.
This picture is from a collaborative rehearsal of "The Seagull" Act 1-Sorin and Nina-(Viktor Baigulov from Russia and Yoko Layer from Japan) at the International Stanislavski Academy in Yuda, Japan, 2001.]]>https://www.excite.co.jp/https://www.exblog.jp/https://ssl2.excite.co.jp/