Shiki Theatre Company

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Shiki Theatre Company (劇団四季, Gekidan Shiki^?, Lit. Four Seasons Theatre Company) is one of Japan's the most well-known and largest theatre companies. Shiki Theatre Company employs over 800 actors and staff, and stages about 2800 performances a year. Shiki Theatre Company operates nine theaters for their exclusive use. Originally, they had staged the classic play by Jean Anouilh or Jean Giraudoux. However, in the late 1970's, they found success by staging western musicals and plays.

Shiki is also know for producing original laguage musicals. One such example is the Showa Trilogy, a set of three musicals about WWII and the aftermath. The series consists of Ri Kōran a musical about the famous Manchurian-Japanese singer; Foreign Hill (異国の丘, Ikoku no Oka^?) which tells the story of the Japanese prisoners of war at an internment camp in Sieria; and Southern Cross (南十字星, Minami Shūjisei^?) about the trials of innocent B and C-class war criminals in Indonesia.

1 History
2 Performed Works
- 2.1 Original Shows/Adaptations
  - 2.1.1 Showa Trilogy
  - 2.1.2 Children's Theatre
- 2.2 Western Shows
3 External link

[edit] History

Shiki Theatre Company is estableished in 1953 by Keita Asari (浅利慶太) and his company The organization was established as a stock holoding company in 1967.

[edit] Performed Works

Shiki Theatre Company has performed a lot of Broadway musicals, including the following.

[edit] Original Shows/Adaptations

[edit] Showa Trilogy

Ri Koran
Foreign Hill
Southern Cross
A Dream Within a Dream (夢から醒めた夢, Yume Kara Samete Yume^?)based on a novel by Jirō Akagawa

[edit] Children's Theatre

Anne of Green Gables
Maeterlinck's Blue Bird (Sometimes retitled: Dreaming)
Lloyd Alexander's The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man
The Emperor's New Clothes
Yuta's Enchanting Friends (ユタと不思議な仲間たち, Yuta to Fushigina Nakama-tachi^?) based on the novel by Miura Tetsuo.