By the Mugensha Theatre Company, inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Knock at the Manor Gate, Director So-un Kotakebayashi

Theatro Technis, London, Saturday 7 October to Saturday 21 October 2006

Review by Sean Curtin

Conductor and translator Toru Sasakibara, director Kyoko Fujishiro, original script and music by W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan

Performed by the Tokyo Theatre Company as part of the 2006 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, 1 August 2006 (one performance only) at Buxton Opera House

Review by Sean Curtin

Directed by Yukio Ninagawa, produced by Horipro Inc and the Saitama Arts Foundation in association with Thelma Holt

Performed by the Ninagawa Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 16th to 24th June 2006, supported by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Review by Sean Curtin