Nakamitsu coming to an end
Sadly. Sadly. This big adventure and incredible journey is nearing its end. The greatest big thank you to all those who have helped along the way. You’ve been amazing.
There have been some late reviews this week, a good one in the Metro, not available on the web and this brilliant one from Sam Marlowe at the Times.
… Nakamitsu, Benjamin Yeoh’s reworking of a Noh drama, thrillingly suggests the violence endemic in the maintaining of a feudal system through a glossily 21st-century cinematic face-off and through music, movement, symbolism and poetry…
The play’s bare simplicity is swathed in a staging of restrained beauty. …Richard Clews’s compelling Nakamitsu … And throughout, Ansuman Biswas’s live music, with its drums, bells, gongs and trembling strings, scintillates and thunders.
The play is just 50 minutes long, yet its richness gives it stature. There’s a loveliness to the way that Yeoh’s words are absorbed into a whole in which a single gesture has compelling eloquence.
Rare and riveting.
One is meant to be relatively sanguine over reviews, but rare and riveting did bring a smile to my face.
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About me
I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.
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Recent Work
Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).
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Nakamitsu
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Yellow Gentlemen
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Ben, are you getting Nakamitsu on the road? We in Scotland would like to see it as well please.
Ben, can’t believe we’ve missed Nakamitsu, we’re so sorry, altho it’s been great reading about it and reading peoples’ reactions. Do let us know if it shows anywhere else.
Pat & Cliff
A real beauty Ben, bloody well done and marvellous to see all those shiny happy people afterward wandering out with Jeez that was great written all over their faces…
Really enjoyed your play. I went on the last night with a great and enthusiastic crowd, and I think I saw you too (you were talking to people at the box office well before the show started, right?).
I’ve done a short review at: http://www.seaninthestalls.blogspot.com