DO YOU NOH SHAKESPEARE: KING LEAR DREAMING. AL BUSTAN FESTIVAL

Naohiko Umewaka, director and actor, Eric Ferrand-N'Kaoua, piano, Soraya Umewaka, actor, Naotomo Umewaka, actor, Anne Marie Salame, narrator

Monday, 29 February

A master of Japanese medieval Noh theatre meets an international concert pianist for an entirely new live-performance.
Hypnotic Noh body language blends with classical and modern piano works. The visions culminate in a deeply original interpretation of Shakespeare’s character King Lear.*

Naohiko Umewaka is world renown as the first great  Noh master who opened his immense traditional heritage to an interaction with foreign art forms. His long -time friendship with the accomplished and eclectic French pianist Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua,  equally at ease in classical and jazz-influenced repertoire,  now leads them to perform together for the first time.

Piano music by Wagner, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin,  Martial Solal….
Video material by Soraya Umewaka

*King Lear’s character from “Lear Dreaming” appears by courtesy of Singaporean stage director Ong Keng Sen

http://albustanfestival.com/programme/february29/