Interkulturowy Shakespeare japońskich reżyserów Yukio Ninagawy i Tadashiego Suzukiego
The Intercultural Shakespeare of Japanese Directors, Yukio Ninagawa and Tadashi Suzuki

Summary/Abstract: The text examines production strategies used by Yukio Ninagawa and Tadashi Suzuki whilst interpreting Shakespeare’s dramas. Each of the directors has a fair number of Shakespearean productions co-defining their original author’s theatre formulas under their belt. Ninagawa offers his audiences a post-modern version of popular theatre where he responds to Shakespeare’s texts with his own historical and existential experience. Suzuki, who makes an elite theatre, presents Shakespeare’s plays side by side with numerous heterogeneous contexts to create collage scenarios seeking to uncover the universal condition of humanity. The Shakespearean productions of both directors can be included in a broad formula of intercultural theatre that strives to meet challenges of the globalising world by hybridising culture and nullifying the opposition between the familiar and the strange. Ninagawa and Suzuki purposefully throw their audiences off balance: the interpretations of Shakespeare they offer are equally surprising and disquieting for both the Japanese and the European spectators, so none of them may claim Shakespeare for themselves.

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