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Blood and cherry blossom: Yukio Ninagawa's samurai Macbeth is back

by Andrew Dickson

His bold take on Shakespeare's tragedy features kabuki witches, Buddhist chants and a cello-playing Lady Macbeth. As it returns, Yukio Ninagawa's collaborators remember how he enthralled and enraged audiencesWhen Yukio Ninagawa died in May last year, theatre lovers around the world went into mourning. But at the Saitama Arts theatre on the outskirts of Tokyo, there wasn't much time for that. The revered 80-year-old d…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:12pm on September 26, 2017