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Review essay: LollaPalooka: Ashita no Ma-Joe: Rocky Macbeth, Written and Directed by Murai Yu. Performed in Japanese by Murai's company Kaimaku Pennant Race, with surtitles. Five Performances: 15–18 May 2019, at Japan Society in New York City

Review essay: LollaPalooka: Ashita no Ma-Joe: Rocky Macbeth, Written and Directed by Murai Yu.... Review essay: LollaPalooka: Ashita no Ma-Joe: Rocky Macbeth, Written and Directed by Murai Yu. Performed in Japanese by Murai’s company Kaimaku Pennant Race, with surtitles. Five Performances: 15–18 May 2019, at Japan Society in New York City John K. Gillespie John K. Gillespie, PhD, president, Gillespie Global Group, a trans-Pacific, intercultural research, consulting, and training company in NYC, translates and writes extensively on modern Japanese theatre and performance, including: Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays (1992); “Modern Japanese Theatre,” in Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre (2016); and Yomota, Inuhiko. Ōno Yoshito no shōzō (Portrait of Ōno Yoshito) (2017). The performance space on Japan Society’s stage had spectators seated so close as to be ringside the impending event. Inside the regular boxing ring was a miniature one, as though seen from the nosebleed seats. But all was right there before us, including fellow spectators. Everything in white, stimulating expectations: prefight meditation, perhaps, or merely the calm before a title bout’s bloody storm? Clad in white spandex, a character appears and sits in a corner of the ring. His Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 2021). © 2021 by University of Hawai‘i Press. All rights reserved. REVIEW ESSAY: ASHITA NO http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Review essay: LollaPalooka: Ashita no Ma-Joe: Rocky Macbeth, Written and Directed by Murai Yu. Performed in Japanese by Murai's company Kaimaku Pennant Race, with surtitles. Five Performances: 15–18 May 2019, at Japan Society in New York City

Gillespie, John K.
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 38 (1) – Jun 11, 2021
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Review essay: LollaPalooka: Ashita no Ma-Joe: Rocky Macbeth, Written and Directed by Murai Yu. Performed in Japanese by Murai’s company Kaimaku Pennant Race, with surtitles. Five Performances: 15–18 May 2019, at Japan Society in New York City John K. Gillespie John K. Gillespie, PhD, president, Gillespie Global Group, a trans-Pacific, intercultural research, consulting, and training company in NYC, translates and writes extensively on modern Japanese theatre and performance, including: Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays (1992); “Modern Japanese Theatre,” in Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre (2016); and Yomota, Inuhiko. Ōno Yoshito no shōzō (Portrait of Ōno Yoshito) (2017). The performance space on Japan Society’s stage had spectators seated so close as to be ringside the impending event. Inside the regular boxing ring was a miniature one, as though seen from the nosebleed seats. But all was right there before us, including fellow spectators. Everything in white, stimulating expectations: prefight meditation, perhaps, or merely the calm before a title bout’s bloody storm? Clad in white spandex, a character appears and sits in a corner of the ring. His Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 2021). © 2021 by University of Hawai‘i Press. All rights reserved. REVIEW ESSAY: ASHITA NO

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