PROGRAM
The second in a series of performances aiming to pass on and create new developments in traditional performing arts focuses on Noh
This new “Traditional Performing Arts as Stage Art” series was launched in 2017. For its second edition, it focuses on Noh with a new staging of the play “Takahime” (The Hawk Princess). A discussion with the Noh practitioners and specialists follows the performance.
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Cast & Crew
Based on “At the Hawk’s Well” by W.B. Yeats
Noh: Mario Yokomichi
Music: Hisao Kanze
Directed by Tetsunojo Kanze
Cast: Tetsunojo Kanze (Hawk Princess), Kuroemon Katayama (Old Man), Kinya Hosho (Kufurin), and more
Co-presented by Katayama Noh and Kyomai Preservation Foundation
Special Sponsor: Inamori Foundation
Presented by Kyoto City, ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Kyoto City Music Arts and Culture Promotion Foundation)
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in fiscal 2018 (beyond 2020 Program)