Hideki Noda (playwright)
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For the race car driver, see Hideki Noda.
Noda Hideki (野田秀樹 ; born 1955 in Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese playwright, theatre director and actor.
He formed Yume no Yumin Sha(夢の遊眠社) when he was studying at Tokyo University. After the Yume no Yumin Sha broke up in 1992, he went to London to study theatres. Back to Japan, he formed a new unit, NODA MAP.
During 1980s, he is seen as one of the prominent figure in Japanese Sho-Gekijo movement. His plays contains a lot of word game and sometimes he remakes classics from Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung to traditional Kabuki plays.
His newest work is The Diver, a collaboration with Colin Teevan, which is due to open at Soho Theatre on 19 June 2008.
[edit] External links
- Hideki Noda at the Internet Movie Database
- 野田秀樹 - Noda Hideki (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
- Tanaka, Nobuko. "CLOSE-UP: HIDEKI NODA-- Acting with joy in his soul", The Japan Times, May 4, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-05-05. (English)
