Twelfth Night
OR WHAT YOU WILL
By William Shakespeare
Translated into Japanese by Kazuko Matsuoka
Song Lyrics by Maoko Imai
This Toho Company production opened at the Nissay Theatre in Tokyo on 8th March 2015 and ran until the 30th March before touring to Ooita and Osaka.
This was the very last theatre design by the great South African designer Johan Engels, who died shortly before the production went into rehearsal. He adored Japan and was greatly looking forward to working in Tokyo on a play he loved. Alas, his friends and colleagues had to go on without him and dedicated their work on the show to his loving memory.
Creative team
Directed by | John Caird |
Set and Costumes by | Johan Engels |
Lighting by | Ryuichi Nakagawa |
Music by | John Cameron |
Sound by | Toshiya Honma |
Fights directed by | Hiroshi Atsumi |
Associate Set Designer | Matt Rees |
Costume Supervisor | Binny Bauerman |
Set and Costume Assistant | Yuko Iwata |
Lighting Assistant | Yasuko Abe |
Musical Direction by | Kayo Nagano |
Music Programming | Keichiro Koga |
Assistant to the Director | Maoko Imai |
Assisant Director | Ikkou Ueda |
Stage Manager | Masato Usami |
Photos by Shumpei Tauchi & Aki Tanaka |
Cast
DUKE ORSINO'S HOUSEHOLD | |
Orsino | Ryosei Konishi |
Valentine | Seiji Sasaki |
Curio | Shinya Senda |
First Officer | Sungrak Kim |
Second Officer | Sho Ikushima |
Third Officer | Junya Hirano |
Viola | Kei Otozuki |
Sea Captain | Hiroshi Miyakawa |
Sailors | Sho Ikushima & Junya Hirano |
COUNTESS OLIVIA'S HOUSEHOLD | |
Olivia | Tomoko Nakajima |
Sir Toby Belch | Haruhiko Jo |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek | Zen Ishikawa |
Maria | Megumi Nishimuta |
Malvolio | Satoshi Hashimoto |
Feste | Songha |
Fabian | Tatsumi Aoyama |
Fabian’s Boy | Haruka Manase |
Sir Topaz | Shinichiro Uchida |
Gentlewomen | Motoko Orii & Shizuka Kono |
ILLYRIA | |
Sebastian | Kei Otozuki |
Antonio | Makiya Yamaguchi |
First Officer | Robert Fransson |
Second Officer | Jimmy Endelewy |
Third Officer | Mikael Kallin |
MUSICIANS | |
Keyboard/Conductor | Kayo Nagano |
Violin | Masahiko Sakurai |
Viola | Hirono Ootsuji |
Cello | Kosuke Tanaka |