Speaker profile
Kazumi Shimodate
President and Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Company Japan, Professor of English and Drama at Tohoku Gakuin University
Mr Kazumi Shimodate is the President and Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Company Japan, and also Professor of English and Drama at Tohoku Gakuin University (TGU) in Sendai, in north eastern Japan. He has been a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London since 1977; the 1000 Club of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre since 1997 and was appointed Directing Fellow of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2002.
Kazumi was born in 1955 and lived in the city of Shiogama in Miyagi prefecture in north eastern Japan. He graduated from the International Christian University in Tokyo (ICU) in 1979 and during his time as an undergraduate he was awarded the first prize in the Tokyo Universities English Drama Contest for directing 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', and between 1976 and 1977 he studied abroad at the University of Exeter in the UK, specialising in English Literature. His M.A. studies were centred on 'The Comparative Study of Shakespeare and Chikamatsu' and completed in 1983.
Kazumi undertook a doctoral course at ICU for two years and in 1985 returned to Sendai to teach at TGU. Between 1992 and 1993 he studied Shakespeare at Cambridge University as a Visiting Scholar and during his time there he joined the drama workshops of the Cambridge Experimental Theatre. Since 1994 he has participated in three British Council International Drama Seminars and says he was greatly influenced by Cicily Berry. Kazumi returned to Cambridge University, again as a Visiting Scholar from 2002-03 and whilst there he was deep in the process of creating an original 'Hamlet'.
Kazumi founded the Shakespeare Company Japan in 1992 and the following year the associated performing troupe was formed. Kazumi has worked as translator and director for all of the Company's works and their 'Macbeth' was well acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2000. He has also directed a Chikamatsu tragedy 'Woman Murderer, Hell of Oil' and joined a production of 'Savage Sensuality' (exploring some of the most passionate sequences in Shakespeare) as Artistic Fellow at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Kazumi is also the author of a number of books and articles on Shakespeare, including 'Another Shakespeare in Japan', 'Words and Imagination' and 'The New Globe and Acting'.
Looking for Othello
1. 妻の死 Up,up!(WordsworThth)
2. 原文をどうやってどうやって読んでいったか？
3. 翻案構想：時代をいつにするか？場をどこにするか？ 宮城県東鳴子温泉大沼旅館―宮城県立図書館―北海道弟子屈―エトロフ島―函館
4. 翻訳：sound and imageryへのこだわり
A “Tush,never tell me”
B “Keep up the bright swords,for the dew will rust them”
C “I hate the Moor”
D “Honest Iago”
E “ Threw a pearl away”
5. 『アトゥイ・オセロ』完成と仙台公演、そして札幌公演（２０１１年３月２０日）
6. 被災地公演の旅という別な道とその終着点にあった「新しいオセロ」への扉―英日・日英翻訳国際会議（２０１６年６月１８日）
7 再び北海道へ：アイヌ民族とのめぐりあい
8. 『アイヌ・オセロ』誕生
The presentation will mainly be in Japanese with some English.
The meeting will also be a chance to buy a ticket to The Shakespeare Company’s upcoming performances of its Ainu Othello on June 9 and 10 at the ICU.
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Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018
Time: 14:00-17:00
Doors open: 13:30
Place: Seisen University, Gotanda, Room#410 (Building No. 4)
http://www.seisen-u.ac.jp/overview/campus.php
Address: 3-16-21 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8642
http://www.seisen-u.ac.jp/access/index.php
Cost:
[Eventbrite - advance purchase] JAT members 1,000 yen; non-members 3,000 yen
[on-site payment] JAT members 1,500 yen; non-members 3,500 yen
Koryukai: 17:00-19:00
Venue: TBA
Networking party cost per person (food + drinks): JAT members and non-members [advance registration] 3,000 yen [on-site payment] 3,500 yen
Eventbrite Tickets Registration/cancellation cutoff: April 18, 2018 (Wed), 23:30 JST
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