Suzuki Company of Toga (Japan)
12, 13/5｜Saturday, Sunday｜20:00
Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium
Tickets: MOP 300, 250, 180, 120
Tadashi Suzuki’s staging of The Trojan Women is structured around a solitary old woman, sitting alone in a cemetery moments before her death, as she flashes back on the miserable fate of all families massacred by war. Their grim destiny, as evoked by the old woman, materialises on stage as the tale of The Trojan Women. For this reason, the only scenes that take place in real present time are the opening, when the old woman laments her fate to the god statue, and the finale, when she pulls her few remaining household belongings out of a bundle. The text she speaks in these scenes is taken from Euripides’ play The Trojan Women.
Tadashi Suzuki is the founder and Director of the Suzuki Company of Toga, based in Toga Village, located in the mountains of Toyama prefecture. He is the organiser of Japan’s first international theatre festival, Toga Festival, and the creator of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. His system of actor training is being taught in schools and theatres throughout the world, including The Juilliard School in New York, the Moscow Art Theatre and the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. A book written on Suzuki titled The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi is published by Cambridge University Press as part of their Directors in Perspective series, featuring leading theatre directors of the 20th century, including Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Giorgio Strehler, Peter Brook and Robert Wilson, among others.
Original Text: Euripides
Adaptation and Direction: Tadashi Suzuki
Characters and Cast
God Statue: Yasuhiro Fujimoto
Old Lady / Hecuba / Cassandra: Maki Saito
Girl selling flowers / Andromache: Sato-Johnson Aki
Duration: approximately 1 hour, no interval
Performed in Japanese, with surtitles in Chinese, Portuguese and English