Noda Hideki (playwright)

Hideki Noda (Japanese野 田 秀 树, Noda Hideki, born December 20 1955) is a Japanese playwright and actor.

Noda was born on the island of Kyushu and was four years old his family moved to Tokyo. His first play he wrote sixteen year as a high school student. During his studies at the University of Tokyo 1976, he founded the theater group Yume no Yūminsha ( dream vagabonds ), which existed until 1992 and in the 1980s was one of the leading groups of Shōgekijō - theater movement. For them he wrote pieces like Hashire Merusu (1976 ), Shōnen Gari (1979 ), Zenda -joo no Toriko (1981 ) Nokemono Kitarite (1983, won the Kishida Kunio - price) and Hanshin (1990). With the piece Nokemono Kirarite at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival in 1987, he took part, in 1990 again with Hanshin. In the same year he led Suisei no Siegfried at the New York International Art Festival.

During this time, Noda also met playwright and actor outside his own group know and stated, inter alia in connection with the group Toho very successful Shakespeare adaptations on. At the height of his success sparked Noda 1992, his group Yumo no Yūminsha up and went for a year to London, where he among other things, studied with Simon McBurny.

In 1993, Noda, the group NODA MAP, with which he brings out annually since then a new piece. Among her most successful productions Kiru (1994 ), Pandora no kane (1999), THE BEE (2006) and The Character (2010). Since the 2000s, Noda also increasingly staged pieces in England, 2003 Red Demon at the Young Vic Theatre and The Bee (2006) and The Diver ( 2008) at the Soho Theatre.

Swell

  • Günther Haasch: " Japan - Customs and culture: geography and history, politics and economy, culture and society," BWV Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8305-1908-9, p 273
  • Ronald Cavayé, Paul Morris Griffith, Akihiko Senda: "英文 版 日本 演劇 ガイド: A Guide to the Japanese Stage", Kodansha International, 2004, ISBN 978-4-7700-2987-4, p 218
  • Daniel Meyer- Dinkgräfe: "Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre ", 2nd edition, Psychology Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-14162-8, p 220
  • Noda Map - Hideki Noda profiles
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  • Drama
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Theater actor
  • Japanese
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  • Born in 1955
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