Japanese Theater Shares Cultural Similarities in Britain

2024-10-08

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  • A playhouse in London, Britain and a theater from Osaka, Japan, are working together to prove cultural differences between the two countries are only on the surface.
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  • London's Charing Cross Theatre and Osaka's Umeda Arts Theater first worked together on a performance in 2019.
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  • After a break caused by the pandemic, they are jointly staging two plays in London this month.
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  • The plays are rooted in Japanese culture and deal with secretive relationships, but the concerns are universal.
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  • Actor Susan Momoko Hingley spoke of Japan's export of culture, including films and television series.
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  • She told the Reuters news agency, "It's really about getting great stories from all sorts of different cultures to Britain and to the West."
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  • She stars in One Small Step, written by Takuya Kato.
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  • It tells the story of a couple working for a company that is colonizing the moon.
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  • The plot becomes more complex with the news the woman is pregnant.
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  • It raises concerns audiences almost anywhere can relate to about motherhood, career and inequality between men and women.
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  • Kato, who is also the play's director, said, "In terms of equity, I think nowadays many people often say that we are striving for fairness within companies, within societies and between individuals."
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  • "But I think it is something that we understand with our heads but might not necessarily grasp it with our hearts," he added.
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  • The London production, Kato said, gave new life to his play "at the intersection of two different cultures."
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  • He noted that for Japanese creative industries, the market within Japan may not be enough to support them.
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  • Working with companies in other countries helps the theater companies and expands knowledge of the culture.
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  • "If we don't grow the part of coproductions, which we have traditionally struggled with, it would be difficult to survive as both an industry and culture in the future," he said.
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  • Following One Small Step, which runs until October 9, Charing Cross Theatre will host Tattooer later in the month.
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  • The play, by another Japanese writer, Takuya Kaneshima, tells the story of a tattoo artist.
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  • I'm Jill Robbins.