Founded in 1995, Ku Na'uka's performances have been credited with ingeniously blending tradition with the modernity. One example is the accompanying contemporary, or pop music, with Greek tragedies or Shakespearean plays. This quality is also evident in Tenshu Monogatari, in which even the genres of bunraku, kabuki and noh become one seamless new style. For the director, the mixture was, in a way, traditionally Japanese.
"Japanese culture has always been a mixture of different customs and eras. Japan's theater performances were also meant to reflect their times, so we're just trying to reflect that. There's no divide of the traditional and the modern. What is traditional now used to be modern in its time," Satoshi said.
For your information :
Ku Na'uka Theater Company will perform Tenshu Monogatari at 7:30pm tonight and tomorrow, and at
2:30pm on Sunday, at the National Theater. Tickets range from NT$400 to NT$1,500 and are available at the CKS Cultural Center. As of Wednesday, some 70 percent of the tickets had been sold. For more information, call (02) 2343 1647 or go to www.artsticket.com.tw
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