Hideki Noda (playwright)

Hideki Noda ( Japanese 野 田 秀 樹 , Noda Hideki ; born December 20, 1955 ) is a Japanese playwright and actor.

Noda was born on the island of Kyushu and came to Tokyo with his family when he was four. He wrote his first play at the age of sixteen as a high school student. During his studies at Tokyo University , he founded the theater group Yume no Yūminsha (Dream Vagabonds) in 1976 , which existed until 1992 and was one of the leading groups of the Shōgekijō theater movement in the 1980s . For them he wrote pieces such as Hashire Merusu (1976), Shōnen Gari (1979), Zenda-joo no Toriko (1981), Nokemono Kitarite (1983, awarded the Kishida Kunio Prize ) and Hanshin (1990). He took part in the Edinburgh International Theater Festival in 1987 with the play Nokemono Kirarite , and again in 1990 with Hanshin . In the same year he performed Suisei no Siegfried at the New York International Art Festival .

During this time Noda also got to know playwrights and actors outside of his own group and led a. a. very successful adaptations of Shakespeare in connection with the group Toho . At the height of his success, Noda dissolved his group Yumo no Yūminsha in 1992 and went to London for a year, where he a. a. learned from Simon McBurney .

In 1993, Noda founded the NODA MAP group , with which he has since released a new piece every year. Her most successful productions include Kiru (1994), Pandora no kane (1999), THE BEE (2006) and The Character (2010). Since the 2000s, Noda has also increasingly directed plays in England, including Red Demon at the Young Vic Theater in 2003 and The Bee (2006) and The Diver (2008) at the Soho Theater .

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• Noda Map - Hideki Noda Profile