The spirit of noh-kyōgen

The Noho Theatre Group was founded in 1981 by kyōgen actor Shigeyama Akira and American director Jonah Salz to interpret Shakespeare, Yeats, Beckett and original plays, as well as bilingual kyōgen.

They perform at studio theatres and noh stages throughout Japan, the Edinburgh Fringe and Avignon Festivals, and New York’s La MaMa and Asia Society. Ours is a kyōgen practice — the classical comic theatre of Japan — that carries 600-year-old technique into modern and Western texts.

At the heart of the work are Shigeyama Akira and Shigeyama Sennojo of the Shigeyama kyōgen family, masked actor Matsui Akira, and reader Kagari — carrying movement, voice, and the aesthetics of ma (negative space) into stories by Beckett, Yeats, Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights.

A longer history, director’s notes and press are on the way. See the current season on the Performances page, or browse the Archive.

Unique fusions of noh-kyōgen technique and spirit with Western and original texts, since 1981. Kyoto, Japan.

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