I have been working on the co-translation (with Mika Eglinton) from Japanese to English of “One Small Step,” a new play by Kishida Award-winning playwright, Takuya Kato, that will premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre in London from 27 September to 9 October 2024. The play is being produced by Umeda Arts Theatre (Osaka/Tokyo) in…
Tag: New Writing
Translation of “YAMAYAMA (I Would Prefer Not To)”
My translation of the play YAMAYAMA (I Would Prefer Not To), written by Matsubara Shuntaro in 2018, appears in Volume 8 of the ENGEKI: Japanese Theatre In the New Millennium series, published by the Japan Playwrights Association (JPA), pp. 1-52. The ENGEKI series (“engeki” means theatre in Japanese) brings new writing in Japan to an…
On the New National Theatre Tokyo's staging of Nick Payne's "Constellations"
This article was originally published in the Japan Times newspaper on Nov 26 2014. As the third play in its series titled Drama for Two — The Power of Dialogue, the New National Theatre, Tokyo, is set to stage acclaimed English playwright Nick Payne’s two-hander quantum love story “Constellations” for a three-week run from Dec….
Andrew Eglinton 