Productions - Complicite

Credits

Directed by Simon McBurney
Composer Honjoh Hidetaro
Set Design Merle Hensel and Rumi Matsui
Lighting Paul Anderson
Sound Gareth Fry
Projection Finn Ross for mesmer
Costume Christina Cunningham
Puppetry Blind Summit Theatre
Assistant Director Kirsty Housley
Script Editor Jo Allan

Performed by Kaho Aso, Songha Cho, Eri Fukatsu, Honjoh Hidetaro, Kentaro Mizuki, Yasuyo Mochizuki, Nigoshichi Shimouma, Keitoku Takada, Ryoko Tateishi, Junko Uchida

Based on the writings of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Co-produced by Complicite, Setagaya Public Theatre and barbicanbite09

Supported by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Japan Foundation, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

Shun-kin 春琴

Inspired by two texts by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki: 'A Portrait of Shunkin' and 'In Praise of Shadows', this sensual devised production explores the many shades of darkness and light in human relationships.

'Simon McBurney has created a production which forces us, as Japanese people of today, to reconsider our own sensibilities. If you close your eyes after seeing the show, the vividness of the afterimage is almost intoxicating.'
Mainichi Shimbun

Yomiuri Theatre Awards 2009
Grand Prize Award for Best Director (Simon McBurney)
Nominated for Best Play and Best Female Actor (Eri Fukatsu)

Ian Shuttleworth - Financial Times, 9 February 2009

... Simon McBurney’s second co-production with the Setagaya Public Theatre of Tokyo concentrates on a much sparer, more elegant, classically Japanese aesthetic in his staging. read article

Benedict Nightingale - The Times, 6 February 2009

Shun-kin ... plunges us into a 19th-century world so murky, so shadowy, that a candle, a lamp, the dim blue rays that fall from the flies, seem almost garish. read article


		Opened at the Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo in February 2008. Subsequently toured to Barbican Theatre and Setagaya Public Theatre again in February and March 2009.