Shamlet was performed by the Ping Fong Acting Troupe and directed by LEE Kuo-hsiu (1955-2013) who also wrote the script. Read More
This production of Hamlet proposes the idea that anyone can play the iconic character of Hamlet. The production has the same actor play multiple roles. Hamlet is played by three different actors at various points in the performance. The production also draws references to film adaptions of Hamlet. Read More
Search: Hamlet centers around an absent Hamlet. Each participant enters a dialogue that develops and interprets the contemporary search for Hamlet in their cultures and communities today. Read More
A short note about this production of Hamlet:
Hamlet is an all male production. The male characters wear Eighties sci-fi gear, while Ophelia wafts about in a polka-dotted kimono.
Cast
Nomura Mansai as Hamlet
Shinobu Nakamura as Ophelia
Eisuke Sasai as Gertrude
Crew
Director – Jonathan Kent
Production designer – Paul Brown
Wangzi fuchou ji (The Revenge of the Prince) was a 1994 Yueju adaptation of Hamlet directed by Su Leci which was performed at the Shanghai International Shakespeare Festival. Xue Yunhuang was the script writer. The actor who played Hamlet was yueju star Zhao Zhigang. Read the essay “Hamlet in China: Translation, Interpretation and Performance” by Ruru Li for additional information about this production. Read More
Hamlet Unplugged was staged on June 18, 2005 at the Experimental Theatre, National Theatre in Taipei , Taiwan and directed by Lü Po-shen. Read More
In 928 A.D. a power struggle emerges in the palace of China’s emperor (Chow Yun-Fat). A cruel man, he is secretly having his wife (Gong Li) poisoned with a substance that will eventually drive her insane. Meanwhile the empress is having an affair with Prince Wan (Ye Liu), her husband’s son from a previous marriage. But the prince secretly wishes to run away with Chan (Li Man), the daughter of the imperial doctor. Read More
Part of the Shashibiya Mingju Donghua (Animated Shakespeare) series.
The Banquet is a 2006 Chinese film, also known as Legend of the Black Scorpion. It is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and is set in 10th century China. Read More
PRINCE OF THE HIMALAYAS is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. Prince Lhamoklodan learns of his father’s mysterious death and returns home to find his uncle has taken the throne–and the widowed queen. Read More
Coriolanus was performed in 2005 by the Hwadong Theatre Company and directed by Hyon-u Lee.
Cast
Tae-woong You as Coriolanus
Bong-sook Sohn as Volumnia
Coriolanus (Korioreinasu) was performed at the Barbican Theatre in London 2007.
Cast
Toshiaki Caracara as Coriolanus
Masanobu Katsumura as Aufidius
Kotaro Yoshida as Menenius
Crew
Choreography – Masahiro Kunii
Set Designer – Tsukasa Nakagoshi,
Costume Designer – Lily Komine
Lighting Designer – Tamotsu Harada
Oki ni mesu mama was directed by Yukio Ninagawa and performed at the Saitama at the Sai no kuni Saitama Geijutsu GekijoÌ in August 2004.
Cast
Narimiya Hiroki
Oguri Shun
Yoshida Kōtarō
Kanno Naoyuki
Takahashi Yō
Credits
Music – Kasamatsu Yasuhiro
Stage director – Shiraishi Eisuke
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando’s celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden – set in 19th-century Japan. Read More
Part of the Shashibiya Mingju Donghua (Animated Shakespeare) series.
