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The "world's first cycling theatre company," The HandleBards returned to Edinburgh in 2016 with two troupes, The Boys and The Girls. Each troupe was composed of four actors who carried set, props and costumes around the UK (and beyond) on bicycles to perform all-male Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III and all-female Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew in unique venues from gardens to castles.
Read MoreSandaime Richard is written by Hideki Noda, described by revered Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa as 'the most talented playwright of contemporary Japan'. Noda effortlessly parallels the Wars of the Roses in England with the intrigue in an ikebana clan in Japan. From Noda’s script, Director Ong Keng Sen creates an extravaganza of comic turns with his signature style of juxtaposing Asian traditional performance forms, including the modern tradition of Takarazuka, a popular all-female entertainment revue. Inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” but very different, Sandaime Richard opens in Singapore this September before heading to Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre for a two-week run and later embarking on a Japanese tour of four cities.
Read MoreTan Hiep Phat’s (a beverage company) Hamlet was first staged in Vietnam in 2013. Last year, the resident company at the National Drama Theatre decided to bring the play back onto the Vietnamese stage. The 2016 production run in Singapore marks their international debut. Director of the Vietnam National Theatre, Nguyen The Vinh, envisages the production being the beginning of a "cooperation between the theatre and the private sector."
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This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
