Esplanade Presents Kafka on the Shore by Ninagawa Company (Japan)

30 Oct - 1 Nov 2015
Esplanade Theatre
$48*, $68**, $88^, $118^^
Concessions for students, NSFs and seniors: $38*, $48**
"I was stunned to see that Ninagawa had literally visualised Murakami’s writing style" - Yomiuri Shimbun
"Breathtaking" - The Telegraph
"Murakami’s novel becomes a sensuous spectacle." - The Guardian
Based on the work of Haruki Murakami
Adapted for the stage by Frank Galati
Directed by Yukio Ninagawa
with Rie Miyazawa, Naohito Fujiki and Nino Furuhata
A 15-year old boy runs away from home with an imaginary friend to escape a prophecy. An old man travels for the first time in his life to find a magic stone. Two parallel journeys collide and reality, myth and dream converge in a mind-bending tale set in modern-day Japan.
After delighting Singapore audiences with his sold-out samurai comedy Musashi, celebrated Japanese theatre icon Yukio Ninagawa returns with a striking theatrical adaptation of much-beloved author Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. The bewitching tale, vividly presented against a series of multilayered sets, features an ensemble cast led by the Japan Academy Award-winning Rie Miyazawa (The Twilight Samurai), and noted actors Naohito Fujiki and Nino Furuhata.
Murakami’s characters inhabit a magical, surrealistic world brought stunningly to life through the sure hand of a theatre master.
www.esplanade.com/events/2015/kafka-on-the-shore

[@OURAN44]

Where can I find the music used in the play? The entire play was breathtakingly beautiful

[@periobeiCR]

+Esplanade Thank you very much, I would have never found it without you!!!

[@alessandrabosi]

come to London! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!