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2008 Performances
Featuring the acclaimed Butoh dancer Mitsuyo Uesugi & TTRP's 4th Cohort of graduating actor-students
Hamletmachine
- by Heiner
Müller, translated by Carl Weber
Directed by Uichiro Fueda
Assisted by Miyuki Kamimura
International cast featuring:
TTRP’s 4th cohort graduating actor-students
- Amy Tam Ka Man (Hong Kong)
- Sia Ee Mien (Singapore)
- Seng Soo Ming (Malaysia),
- Sreejith Ramanan (India)
- Sajeev Purushothama Kurup (India)
– Alberto Ruiz Lopez (Mexico)
- Zachary Ho Tze Siang (Singapore)
TTRP Graduate 2005
- Miyuki Kamimura (Japan)
Butoh Performer
-Mitsuyo Uesugi (Japan)
Date & Venue:
22 to 24 May, 28 to 31 May 2008, 8pm
TTRP Theatre Lab (in the making)
Emily Hill, 11 Upper Wilkie Road.
Müller wrote Hamletmachine in 1977 in East Germany, and called it the description of a petrified hope, an effort to articulate a despair so that it can be left behind. Banned by the East German authorities, it received its first staging in Brussels in 1978.
Created in an era when communism began to crumble and capitalist society was to emerge from the debris, the play places Hamlet and Ophelia in the midst of 20th Century political, economic and social change.
Tickets prices:
(*Concession for NSFs, Students, senior citizens over 55 (not including Gatecrash fees)
For school group bookings, please contact Rostina at rostina@practice.org.sg or call 6338-5133 for more details.
Tickets are available at all Gatecrash outlets or book online at
Website: www.gatecrash.com.sg
Hotline:6222-5595
Official Partners:
  
Director Uichiro Fueda
Uichiro Fueda joined the Waseda Sho-Gekijyo founded by Tadashi Suzuki after graduating from university in 1976. This company became the Suzuki Company of Toga, and Fueda was instrumental in the formulation of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. He played Lear from 1983 and Dionysus in The Tale of Lear and Dionysus, both directed by Tadashi Suzuki. Fueda played both roles in many cities, including London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. He also taught actors’ training courses in conjunction with the performances in Europe and America, and summer courses at the village of Toga. From 1990 to 1992, he served as the standing director of the Mito Art Foundation where he composed and directed three production. In 1995, he received a Yomiuri Shinbun Engeki Taisho Award for Best Actor for his performance in the company’s Juliet. He left the Suzuki Company of Toga in 1996, and in 1998 established the Uichiro Fueda Theatre Office. Since then, he has composed and directed a number of works, including a series of three under the title “21st Century Theatre Series”, entitled Present/Theatre Series, Hamlet/Ophelia, and the most recent - Earnestly Waiting/Evil Is The Future – a piece inspired by the work of Heiner Muller. He has also performed in several productions including Gekidan Kaitaisha’s performances directed by Shinjin Shimizu, Renniku Kobo’s performances directed by Akira Okamoto, and Kamome-Za’s performances directed by Makoto Sato. He is the author of “The Principal Theory of 21st Century Theatre”.
Butoh dancer Mitsuyo Uesugi
The play will also feature the renowned butoh dancer Mitsuyo Uesugi from Japan. Uesugi received her early training in classical ballet and performed in the late 1960’s with the Momoko Tani Ballet Company in Tokyo. In 1970, she organised a performance group, created the piece “Space of Uneasiness” and began studying with legendary butoh performer Kazuo Ohno. From 1975 she started performing her own solo butoh pieces, and in 1980 toured internationally with Ohno’s company. In the mid-1980’s she worked and performed extensively in France, joining Studio DM in Paris. After returning to Japan, she and composer Eiji Nakazawa formed Ahiru Studio, presenting her solo work and duets with Olivier Gelpe. She has performed and taught butoh in Japan, Mexico, Korea, the USA and several countries in Europe. In January 2007 she was invited to perform in the gala performance celebrating the 100th birthday of Kazuo Ohno.
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