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July 23 –26 David H. Koch Theater

Ninagawa Company Kafka on the Shore Based on the book by Adapted for the stage by Frank Galati

Directed by Translated by Shunsuke Hiratsuka Set Designer Tsukasa Nakagoshi Costume Designer Ayako Maeda Lighting Designer Motoi Hattori Sound Designer Katsuji Takahashi Hair and Make-up Designers Yoko Kawamura , Yuko Chiba Original Music Umitaro Abe Chief Assistant Director Sonsho Inoue Assistant Director Naoko Okouchi Stage Manager Shinichi Akashi Technical Manager Kiyotaka Kobayashi Production Manager Yuichiro Kanai

Approximate performance time: 3 hours, including one intermission

Major support for Lincoln Center Festival 2015 is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center Festival 2015 is made possible in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Lincoln Center Festival 2015 presentation of Kafka on the Shore is made possible in part by generous support from the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Additional support provided by Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., Marubeni America Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas), Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, ITOCHU International Inc., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc., and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal U.S.A., Inc. Co-produced by Saitama Arts Foundation, Broadcasting System Television, Inc., and HoriPro, Inc. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

Greeting from HoriPro Inc. HoriPro Inc., along with our partners Saitama Arts Foundation and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television Inc., is delighted that we have once again been invited to the Lincoln Center Festival , this time to celebrate the 80th birthday of director, Yukio Ninagawa, who we consider to be one of the most prolific directors in Japanese theater history. For this special occasion, Mr. Ninagawa has chosen to direct Kafka on the Shore , written by one of the most acclaimed authors in Japan today, Haruki Murakami. After the production’s successful run in this past May, Kafka on the Shore travels to Singapore and Seoul following its performances in New York.

Even though Mr. Ninagawa has been unwell over the past year, he has continued to work diligently, rehearsing Kafka on the Shore and creating a new version of Shakespeare’s —yet another celebratory piece for his 80th birthday. It is a true demonstration, if indeed we need one, of his continued vitality and how committed he continues to be to his art.

Although Mr. Ninagawa is well on the way to recovery, his doctors will not yet permit him to travel abroad. While this is heartbreaking for him, as he has always traveled to New York with his company, this production was prepared in Japan with all our strength and heart under Mr. Ninagawa’s steady leadership, and we are honored that he has entrusted us to deliver it to you on his behalf.

Takeo Hori Founder and Executive Producer, HoriPro Inc. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

Cast

Miss Saeki/Girl Oshima Naohito Fujiki Kafka Nino Furuhata Sakura Anne Suzuki Crow Hayato Kakizawa Hoshino Tsutomu Takahashi Colonel Sanders Masakatsu Toriyama Nakata Katsumi Kiba

Johnnie Walker Masato Shinkawa Dr. Juichi Nakazawa/NHK News Anchor Masafumi Senoo Kawamura Mame Yamada Otsuka/Brawny Soldier Yukio Tsukamoto Police Officer Fumiaki Hori Ms. Soga Yoko Haneda Ms. Tanaka/NHK Television Announcer Soko Takigawa Mimi/The Colonel’s Girl Katrine Mutsukiko Doi Vincent Setsuko Okamochi Erika Shumoto Dog/Tall Soldier Takamori Teuchi Major James P. Warren Shinya Matsuda LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

don’t know when it will come to an end. I Note From the Director can make a solemn promise that I will try to do my job to the best of my abilities It is a great honor that one of my produc - before that time comes. That has been my tions is again being performed in New York ambition throughout my career as a director, at Lincoln Center Festival —this time as a and I still hope with every new production part of my 80th anniversary tour. to bring something new to the stage.

Ever since I saw the dioramas at the I am only sorry that I am currently not well American Museum of Natural History in enough to fly to New York for this special New York in my youth, I have longed to event, but my soul is apart from my body apply the idea of using a diorama in my to be with you and the company for every work, and when I read Kafka on the Shore performance. I sincerely pray my work will I realized that Haruki Murakami’s writing be esteemed in your eyes. style would be the perfect fit. Mr. Murakami’s work has both intimate details —Yukio Ninagawa as well as a dynamic scale of narrative. The details can be presented through what is inside the dioramas, while the dynamic Haruki Murakami and narrative is brought about through the Kafka on the Shore movements of the diorama boxes on the stage. Talking , transgender librarians, truck drivers, and Colonel Sanders may not Another important element of his work is seem the most obvious ingredients for an , which brings back the international bestseller but Kafka on the memory of once visiting the Temple of Shore is no ordinary story and Haruki Apollo in Delphi, Greece. Mr. Murakami’s Murakami is no ordinary author. work is full of Greek tragedy, most impor - tantly, the classic story of patricide which Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, the son of a figures strongly in this story. pair of teachers, Mr. Murakami grew up immersing himself in American culture; Aging for me is not easy. If you are merely reading hard-boiled crime novels, listening in stasis, but remaining who you are, then to rock and roll and, eventually, becoming a inevitably as a man who is 80, you will jazz enthusiast. receive respect and consideration in every - day life, but nothing more. However, if you He met his wife, Yoko, at university and continue to do battle with yourself, and ask they set up a jazz bar together, the Peter questions of yourself, then perhaps you Cat. It was a popular and successful achieve something else. I constantly ask venue, but something happened to Mr. myself, “Who’s there?” In doing this I am Murakami in 1978 that changed the course asking what will be left after the layers of of his life. While sitting in the stands during life are peeled off like the skin of an onion. a baseball match watching his favorite Hopefully it is more than nothing. team the Yakult Swallows versus the Hiroshima Carp, he was suddenly struck Being unwell recently made me consider with the idea of writing a novel. “It was the rest of my life, although, of course, I like a revelation, something out of the LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

blue,” he said later. On the way home he tives. In the first, a teenage boy has run bought pens and paper and started writing away from his father’s home to try to find what was to become Hear the Wind Sing . his estranged mother and sister. We do It was published in 1979 and won the not learn his real name but he calls himself Gunzo newcomers award. The jazz bar Kafka, after his favorite writer. During his owner had become a novelist. journey he frequently interacts with his alter ego, or imaginary friend, Crow. He The books that followed became popular ends up in a remote private library in with Japanese youth during the early Takamatsu, run by the mysterious Miss 1980s. His use of twenty-something Saeki, and is permitted to stay. There he narrators and colloquial language made his befriends Oshima, a transgender librarian. writing instantly accessible to a generation The two of them meet and discuss life and that often felt shut out of the mannered, literature every day. It is, for Kafka, an idyllic restrained world of literary fiction. But he existence until the police arrive, looking to found an even wider audience when he question him about a violent crime. published Norwegian Wood in 1987, a more traditional love story or, at least, as The second narrative concerns Nakata, an traditional as Mr. Murakami is likely to get. elderly man considered slow and simple. It became a phenomenon in Japan. Fans As a child he was involved in a curious started dressing to match the book’s jack - incident while on a school trip. His entire ets (it came in two volumes: one red, the class was rendered unconscious following other green), a muzak cover version of the a bright flash of light in the sky. Nakata Beatles song went to number one on the took longer to recover than his classmates charts, and there was even a Norwegian and when he did regain consciousness he Wood air freshener on supermarket shelves. had lost his memory but gained the ability to communicate with cats. Now, in his old Uncomfortable with this level of fame, Mr. age, he makes a small living by using his Murakami left Japan to travel the world, unusual talent to find lost cats in the neigh - eventually settling in America where he borhood. What better way to find a cat wrote the book most critics believe to be his than by asking other cats? One such masterpiece, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle . It search takes Nakata, like Kafka, on a road was certainly the novel that propelled him trip that will change his life. into the upper echelons of world literature, becoming his first global bestseller. Through this off-kilter plot Mr. Murakami explores themes of identity–Oshima’s Kafka on the Shore was published almost a transgender character; is Miss Saeki decade after The Wind-up Bird Chronicle , by Kafka’s long-lost mother?; are Kafka and which time Mr. Murakami was back in Nakata facets of the same person?–and Japan, and it marked something of a depar - destiny; Kafka’s storyline owes more than ture. Gone was the familiar narrator, a passing nod to the Oedipus myth. But replaced by a teenage boy, and half the book the author himself has always deflected was written in the third person, a new any analysis of his novels: they are to be approach for the author. It received a warm enjoyed as pure stories. critical reception, both in Japan and abroad, and became another international bestseller. I interviewed Mr. Murakami prior to publi - The story is told through two parallel narra - cation of Kafka on the Shore and asked LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

him about the change of direction the book Fortunately, we do not have to follow represented: “Most of my fiction up till his example. now has been first person narratives dealing with a male protagonist (and narrator) in his —Scott Pack 20s or 30s. A few years ago, however, I started taking a different direction and Scott Pack is a writer and publisher at began writing in a different voice and Aardvark Bureau. Later this year he pub - perspective. There’s something about that lishes a new English translation by Jay style of writing that suits me. In any case, Rubin of Natsume Sōseki’s novel, The whenever I write a new novel I decide on Miner , with an introduction by Haruki a theme and attempt to do something new Murakami. and different.”

However “new and different” each novel About Yukio Ninagawa may be, readers will be able to spot recurring themes and motifs across Mr. Murakami’s Yukio Ninagawa joined the Seihai work. Cats appear in almost every book he Company in 1955 as an . He made his writes, and play a particularly important directorial debut with Shinjo Afururu , written by Kunio Shimizu, in role in Kafka on the Shore . Classical and Keihakusa jazz music provide the background score to 1969, and subsequently founded his own many scenes. And then there is the other - theater companies, Gendaijin-Gekijo and worldly, the parallel universes, the sense Sakurasha. that something is just a little out of whack with the world. Kafka on the Shore Over the years, Yukio Ninagawa has arguably represents the culmination of all directed a wide range of productions, these themes; it features all the elements including contemporary Japanese plays, of classic Mr. Murakami and yet does, as classic Greek tragedies, and the works of the author intended, offer us something . In 1983 he directed truly new and different. his first European production, , and his work has toured outside Japan every I once asked Mr. Murakami what he year since. His production of Modern Noh thought of adaptations of his novels: “I Plays was staged as part of Lincoln Center make it a rule not to see film and stage Festival in 2005. He became the Artistic versions of my works. When I write Director of the Sainokuni Saitama Arts something I’m already creating a movie Theater, Japan, in 2006. There, he founded or play in my mind and don’t feel like a unique performing group, the Saitama watching someone else’s new movie or Gold Theater, for performers over 55, as stage version.” well as the Saitama Next Theatre, which is LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

a project to develop young performers. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of With his production of , Pilgrimage . Kafka on the Shore , published he was invited to participate in the Royal in 2002, was acclaimed around the world. Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works It was chosen as one of the 10 Best Books festival (2006 –07), as Japan’s only repre - by the New York Times in 2005. He has sentative. His production of also written a number of non-fiction books, was part of Bite 2007 in the Barbican’s short novels, essays, travel essays and 25th birthday year, while his first Kabuki more, and is a translator of the works of F. play, , was presented as part Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, and JD of Bite 2009. His production of Musashi , Salinger. His international awards include written by Hisashi Inoue, was part of Bite the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006, the Frank 10 and presented at Lincoln Center O’Connor Short Story Award, the Festival in the same year. In 2011 his Jerusalem Prize in 2009, and the version of was International Catalunya Prize in 2011. performed in Seoul and in 2012 was presented in London as part of the Frank Galati (Adaptation) was born in World Shakespeare Festival. Illinois and is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and an Yukio Ninagawa is a member of the associate director at Goodman Theatre. Shakespeare Globe Council in London, and Known for directing various plays as well was awarded a CBE in 2002. He has also as appearing in numerous works as an received many theater and educational actor, he is equally known for his adapta - awards in Japan, and was the recipient of tions. In 1990 his version of John a Gold Medal from the Kennedy Center Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath won International Committee on the Arts for his for Best Play and Best production of Shintoku-Maru in 2008. Direction of a Play. He was also nominated for Best Screenplay at the 1988 Academy His recent works includes Never Let Me Awards for his adaptation of Anne Tyler’s Go , The Trojan Women , Inori to Kaibutsu — The Accidental Tourist . His first adaptation Willvill’s , Henry IV, Modo of a Haruki Murakami novel was After the Ken , , and Hamlet. Quake in 2005 followed by Kafka on the Shore in 2008, and both plays were per - formed at the Steppenwolf Theatre. About the Creative Team

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in About the Cast 1949 and is a graduate of Waseda University. He made his debut as a novelist Rie Miyazawa (Miss Saeki/Girl) has accu - in 1979 with Hear the Wind Sing . mulated numerous credits on stage and in Following the success of this novel he pub - films and commercials. She made her lished a string of works including A Wild debut in 1988 with the leading role in the Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland film Bokurano Nanoka-kan Senso (“Our and the End of the World, Dance Dance Seven Days War”) . Her recent film credits Dance, South of the Border, West of the include Peony Pavilion (winning Best Sun, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Actress at the International Film Sweetheart, After Dark, 1Q84 , and Festival), (Best LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

Actress at the Japan ), in films, winning Newcomer of the Year and Pale Moon (Best actress at the Japan and Most Popular Actress Prize at the 26th Academy Awards, the Tokyo International Japan Academy Awards for Returner , and Film Festival, the , the has been acclaimed as one of the top Yokohama Film Festival Award, among oth - young actresses in Japan. Her first stage ers—winning seven Best Actress prizes in credit was as Helen Keller in The Miracle total). Her stage credits include Tomei Worker . Her Ninagawa Company credits Ningen no Yuge, A Doll’s House (Best include Musashi and Tomin suru Kuma ni Actress at the Yomiuri Theatre Awards), Soine shite goran . Other credits include and MIWA (Kikuta Kazuo Theatre Award). Sisters and Top Girls on stage; and the Her Ninagawa Company credits include films Hana and Alice, Keibetsu, Helter Shitaya Mannen-cho Monogatari, Modo Skelter , and The Ravine of Goodbye . She is Ken , and My Sister, Lonely Like Fire . currently appearing on television in the Hana Moyu. Naohito Fujiki (Oshima) made his debut in 1995 as Rui Hanazawa in the film Boys Hayato Kakizawa (Crow) made his stage Over Flowers while still a student at debut in with the Waseda University. His popularity grew Shiki Theatre Company and remained a with the television series Asuka and Nurse member of that company through 2009. no Oshigoto . His recent credits include His stage credits include Thrill Me, Hotaru no Hikari, Last Cinderella, and Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Romeo and Kokoro-ga Pokittone on television and the Juliet, Merrily We Roll Along, Title of films Twentieth Century Boys Chapter II Show , and Death Note The Musical. On and III . He also appears as a host on the television he has appeared in Peace Boat , talk shows Oshareism and TOYOTA the Taiga drama Taira no Kiyomori and Athlete Beat . He made his stage debut in Ando Lloyd. Work in film includes Kaiji II, 2008 with Fuyu no Esora. As a musician he Himitsu no Akko-chan, Bad Boys J , and has performed in over 200 live concerts Crows Explode. including sold-out shows at Tokyo’s Budokan arena in 2006 and 2007. Tsutomu Takahashi (Hoshino) has widely worked in various fields. His Nino Furuhata (Kafka) was born in Paris, recent credits include Soratobu Koho- and has appeared in commercials and shitsu, Umino Ueno Shinryo-jo, Real music videos. He came under the spotlight Dasshutsu Game, S-Last Policeman, in 2013 when he appeared in a Japanese Long Goodbye, Tamagawa Kuyakusho advertisement for Google. Kafka on the of the Dead , and Sutekina Sen-Taxi on Shore in 2014 was his first acting credit, stage; and his work in films includes and he has since gone on to appear in Kiri Crows Zero I and II, The Motion Picture no Hata (“The Fog Flag”) written by Seicho Episode VI , The Woodsman and the Matsumoto and in the NHK special Next Rain , Sono Yoru no Samurai , and April World Our Future. Fools. He is the writer/director of his own theater company, Shibuya Hachi-ko Anne Suzuki (Sakura) made her dramatic Mae. His Ninagawa Company credits debut in 1996 in the television series include Titus Andronicus, Omote-Ura Kindaichi Case Files . She has been active Gennai Kaeru Gassen , and Musashi. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

Masakatsu Toriyama (Colonel Sanders) Ninagawa Studio. His Ninagawa Company joined the Shitamachi Kara-za theater credits include Boku no Yotsuya Kaidan, group in 1988 and made his debut in Inori to Kaibutsu–The Three Sisters of Sasurai-no Johnny . Until the day that the Willvill, Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice, name of the theater group changed to Tomin suru Kuma ni Soine shite goran, and Gekidan Kara-gumi, Toriyama’s theatrical Julius Caesar . activities always followed Juro Kara’s the - atrical method. His Ninagawa Company Masafumi Senoo (Dr. Juichi Nakazawa/NHK credits include Hinoura Hime Monogatari, News Anchor) started his career at the Henry IV , and The Water Magician Kara Shakespeare Theatre and later joined ver. Other credits include Kaze no Hokori Gekisha Ninagawa Studio. His Ninagawa (Shinjuku Ryozan Paku production) and Company credits include Hinoura Hime Hyakumai-me no Shashin, and the film Monogatari, Inori to Kaibutsu–The Three Guilty of Romance . He has also produced Sisters of Willvill, Henry IV, Modo Ken, and directed solo-performances of Kyoka Tomin suru Kuma ni Soine shite goran, and Izumi’s plays Mayu Kakushi no Rei, Total Eclipse . Maboroshi no Euma , and Konnyaku-bon. Mame Yamada (Kawamura) made his Katsumi Kiba (Nakata) joined the Sakura- stage debut with Rookie Bakusho Gekidan sha and Hihou-Zeroban-kan theater at Osaka Sennichi-mae Theatre. His groups, and later established Theatre Ninagawa Company credits include Project Tokyo. He has been widely active, Shintoku-Maru , Hamlet , , not only in the Ninagawa Company, but Inori to Kaibutsu–The Three Sisters of also in working on Hisashi Inoue’s plays Willvill , and The Water Magician Kara ver . and the translated works of Shakespeare He recently appeared with the Niwa and Chekhov. His recent Ninagawa Gekidan Penino Company. Company credits include Madame de Sade/My Friend Hitler , Hinoura Hime Yukio Tsukamoto (Otsuka/Brawny Soldier) Monogatari , Henry IV , and Modo Ken . has appeared in many Ninagawa productions Other stage credits include Taiko Tataite including Cymbeline , Boku no Yotsuya Fue Fuite , , Cat on a Kaidan , Inori to Kaibutsu–The Three Sisters Hot Tin Roof , Henry VI , and Freud’s Last of Willvill , Henry IV , Tomin suru Kuma ni Session . Recent film credits include Soine shite goran , and Musashi . Other Kakekomi Onna to Kakedashi Otoko , credits include Itachi and Three Sisters on Japan’s Longest Day , and Kazoku wa stage and the films Outrage , Box–The Tsurai-yo . He has won Best Actor at the Hakamada Case and Human Trust . Yomiuri Theatre Awards, the Excellence Award at the National Arts Festival, and Fumiaki Hori (Police Officer) joined the the Individual Award from the Kinokuniya Ninagawa Studio in 1989 and made his Theatre Prizes. debut in . His Ninagawa Company credits include Musashi , Hinoura Hime Masato Shinkawa (Johnnie Walker) is a Monogatari , and Tomin suru Kuma ni Soine former ice hockey player and started his shite goran . Other credits include Hayabusa on acting career at Furano Theatre Group and film and Kodoku no Gourmet III on television. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

Yoko Haneda (Ms.Soga) has appeared in Erika Shumoto (Setsuko Okamochi) started numerous Ninagawa productions. Her acting while still a student at the University credits include Chikamatsu’s Love Suicide of the Ryukyus and has been a member of Story , Ame no Natsu 30 nin no Juliet ga the Saitama Next Theatre since 2009. Her Ninagawa Company credits include Next Kaettekita , Henry VI , Shintoku-Maru , Aa Theatre productions, as well as Kouya , The Trojan Women , and Tomin Glass , , and suru Kuma ni Soine shite goran . Mask–Futari no Helen Chino Konrei Boku no Yotsuya Kaidan . Soko Takigawa (Ms.Tanaka/NHK TV Announcer) was part of the Furusato Takamori Teuchi (Dog/Tall Soldier) is a member of the Saitama Next Theatre. His Caravan musical company. She has appeared Ninagawa Company credits include Next in musicals including La Cage aux Folles , Theatre productions, as well as Chiwa Fiddler on the Roof , and Sweeney Todd . Her Tattamama Nemutte iru , The Tragedy of Ninagawa Company credits include Shintoku- Doctor Faustus , Chino Konrei , Hinoura Maru , Glass Mask , and Aa Kouya . Hime Monogatari , and Modo Ken . His other credits include NODA MAP “MIWA” Katrine Mutsukiko Doi Vincent (Mimi/ directed by Hideki Noda. The Colonel’s Girl) is from the U.S. and was a member of the Saitama Next Shinya Matsuda (Major James P. Warren) Theatre from 2009 to 2013. Her Ninagawa is a member of the Saitama Next Theatre. Company credits include Next Theatre His Ninagawa Company credits include productions, as well as Glass Mask–Futari Next Theatre productions, as well as no Helen , Chino Konrei , The Trojan Chiwa Tattamama Nemutte iru , Holy Women , Henry IV , and Total Eclipse . In Place , Chino Konrei , Cymbeline , Boku no 2012 she completed the short program at Yotsuya Kaidan , Ravens , We Shall Load New York’s Lee Strasberg Institute. Bullets , and Modo Ken . LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

Kafka on the Shore Staff (1999) directed by Yukio Ninagawa in asso - Assistant Stage Managers ciation with the RSC and Ltd, Hiroo Mampoh , Takahiko Hamano , which was performed both in Japan and Shuichi Iwase , Keigo Watanabe , the UK; Hamlet (2003) performed by Toru Hirai , Koichi Mitsuyasu , Japanese with UK designers led by Kazushige Wakamatsu director was shown both in Assistant Production Manager Japan and in the UK; and Ninagawa’s Yasumasa Hirai English Shakespeare production of Carpenters Hiroshi Okuyama , Hamlet (2004) with Michael Maloney in the Takamitsu Tokizaki title role, which toured in the UK after Electricians Shuichi Odagiri , Kana Hori opening at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal. The Lighting Operators Hiroshi Misawa , company is also a leading presenter of Atsushi Ozawa , Akane Furuya English-language shows in Japan as well Sound Operator Takuya Watanabe as international ballet companies . The Wardrobe Reiko Miwa new version of Hamlet (2015) and Kafka on Wardrobe and Props Mayumi Imai the Shore are the celebratory productions Hair and Make-up Naomi Watanuki for Yukio Ninagawa’s 80th Anniversary.

Kafka on the Shore Acknowledgements HoriPro Inc. Staff Official Airline ANA Executive Producer Takeo Hori Producer Miyako Kanamori HoriPro Inc. Assistant Producers Chigusa Hanasato , HoriPro was established in 1960 as an Yoshie Oya, Kanako Ono agency for singers and musicians, and has expanded into various entertainment Saitama Arts Foundation business fields including making films, The Saitama Arts Foundation, founded by television commercials, and programs, Saitama Prefecture in 1993, is the designated representing actors and musicians, and administrator and operator of two theaters producing music-related projects and in Saitama. One of the two, the Saitama performing arts of all genres. The Arts Theater, which was founded by the Theatrical Production Department of HoriPro Saitama Prefecture in 1994, aims to offer produces and co-produces a wide array of opportunities for theatrical art on the highest plays and musicals and presents them level, and to actively support the artistic and both in Japan and abroad. The Japanese- cultural activities of the region. The language version of the Broadway musical Saitama Arts Theater has venues for staging of Peter Pan has been presented every plays, dance, music, and audio-visual summer for more than 30 years with over performances, as well as 12 rehearsal 1,500 performances for over two million halls, studios, a theater arts archives, and people. The company has had a long rela - exhibition spaces. Under the guidance of tionship with Yukio Ninagawa presenting artistic director Yukio Ninagawa, the theater many of his works in the UK and the U.S., has been a cultural and artistic complex for including his two prior visits to Lincoln internationally renowned artists from Center Festival with Modern Noh Plays in Japan and around the world. Moreover, the 2005 and Musashi in 2010. HoriPro’s inter - Saitama Arts Theater has been lauded for national collaborations include its innovative and ambitious theatrical LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

projects including the Sainokuni Shakespeare concerts with Udo Artists, Inc. including Series with an aim of staging all of Elton John, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Shakespeare’s 37 plays, the Saitama Gold Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Kiss and more. Theater whose performers are all 55 years Having produced over 100 films, in 2009, of age or older, and the Saitama Next Theatre TBS celebrated a great success with for the purpose of nurturing young actors. Departures , which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. TBS owns Saitama Arts Foundation Staff and operates the Akasaka ACT Theater in President Fuminori Takeuchi Tokyo, which opened in 2008. It also owns Senior Managing Director Yoshio Kimata and operates the live concert venue Director/Producer Hiroshi Watanabe Akasaka Blitz. In the spring of 2014 it Production Hajime Matsuno , Orie Ishii presented Fuerza Bruta in a temporary venue at Akasaka Sacas. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (TBS) Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, TBS is one of the major television networks in Inc. Staff Japan. Wholly owned by Tokyo Broadcasting Executive Producer Tatsuo Sugai System Holdings, TBS produces and tele - General Producers Naoko Yoshida , vises news programs, dramas, sports and Yoichi Kawade variety programming on their 28-affiliate Associate Producers Jin Yokoi , network JNN (Japan News Network), with Shintaro Okada , Kenji Kojima , cable and satellite channels throughout Miho Tsunoda Japan. This year TBS celebrates its 60th anniversary. TBS has become very popular Gorgeous Entertainment, Inc. in Japan, airing numerous variety programs, President/Executive Producer news shows, and dramas. It produced the Kumiko Yoshii Takeshi’s Castle game show, which has CEO Michael Wolk been dubbed and broadcast all over the Associate Producer Karin Yamamoto world. Notable drama series include Project Coordinators Manatsu Domoto, Hanzawa Naoki, which aired from Miwa Kaneko July–September 2013, and earned the Production Assistant Haruki Ikeda highest rating for a Japanese commercial drama series in over 30 years. Beyond tele - Special Thanks to Thelma Holt and vision, TBS has expanded and taken a large Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd. role in the production of musicals, films, and music concerts. TBS’s theatrical pre - Lincoln Center Festival senting credits (in English) include Rent, Now in its 20th season, Lincoln Center , , , Festival has received worldwide attention Dreamgirls, Xanadu , and War Horse , and for presenting some of the broadest and this autumn will present Prince of most original performing arts programs in Broadway . Recent Japanese language Lincoln Center’s history. The Festival has productions include Chicago, Spamalot, presented over 1,300 performances of Romeo and Juliet, Scrooge , and Love opera, music, dance, theater, and interdis - Never Dies (co-produced with HoriPro). ciplinary forms by internationally acclaimed TBS has presented numerous music artists from more than 50 countries. To LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015 KAFKA ON THE SHORE

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incoln Center Festival isn’t only vocalist David Moss. Or at the Druid L about the nearly 60 exciting Theatre Company symposium, ask w performances by companies from one of the creative geniuses behind around the world, it also offers DruidShakespeare: The History Plays opportunities for audiences and that nagging question about The Bard families to peek behind the curtain you’ve always wanted to pose. And with a variety of ancillary events—artist most importantly, help create the talks, lectures, a symposium, and next generation of great musicians! special programs for children. Introduce aspiring young virtuosos to instruments in the symphonic Care to learn more about the stunning orchestra, and help them discover puppetry in Rezo Gabriadze’s Ramona? their inner musician, when Cleveland In conjunction with the performances Orchestra members, horn player Hans of the show, LC Kids offers a hands- Clebsch and keyboardist Joela Jones, on puppet-building workshop led by lead . Who award-winning puppeteer Erin Orr. If Fantastic French Horn knows? It could be your young one’s Delusion of the Fury doesn’t completely first step toward taking the stage at satisfy your cravings for the daring Avery Fisher Hall one day! a and original music of maverick composer Harry Partch, then come to For more information, and complete New York City Center to experience schedule of Lincoln Center Festival a a hybrid lecture-performance of his and corresponding ancillary events, a personal journal, Bitter Music, by visit LincolnCenterFestival.org. Accessibility at Lincoln Center

eflecting a quote by Lincoln Center venues. Another major R Center’s first president John D. component of Accessibility is its Rockefeller III that “the arts are not for longstanding “Passport to the Arts.” the privileged few, but for the many,” The program annually distributes to Lincoln Center has had as a central children with disabilities thousands mission from its start making the of free tickets to a variety of Lincoln arts available to the widest possible Center performances, including audiences. In 1985, that led to the New York City Ballet and the New establishment of the Department of York Philharmonic—a welcoming Programs and Services for People with introduction to the arts. A parent who Disabilities to ensure full participation participated in a recent “Passport” in the thousands of events presented event commented “It allowed my annually across the Lincoln Center family and I to enjoy and learn along campus. It was the first such program with everyone else. The accessibility… at any major performing arts center made it easier for our family to “relax” in the U.S. and has long- and truly enjoy the served as a model for experience.” other arts institutions Accessibility is around the country. expanding the Celebrating its 30th ways it serves anniversary with a new adults with name, Accessibility disabilities. It at Lincoln Center, introduced and the program oversees American continues to provide Sign Language- exceptional guest led official tours care to all visitors, of Lincoln Center, as well as training and offers live in accessibility to audio description colleagues at Lincoln for select Lincoln

Center’s resident Center Festival organizations, including performances. the Film Society of Accessibility

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