{"id":306,"date":"2018-10-15T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tufs-tenkai2rus-en.com\/?page_id=306"},"modified":"2018-10-15T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T03:00:06","slug":"internship-natori-mow-spb-2018jun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.tufs.ac.jp\/russia-en\/internship-natori-mow-spb-2018jun\/","title":{"rendered":"TUFS students participate in internships at Theatre Office Natori"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 1st<\/sup> ~ June 7th<\/sup>, 2018<\/p>\n

Two students from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), who were in the middle of exchange studies in Moscow and St. Petersburg, had the opportunity to participate in internships at Theatre Office Natori.<\/p>\n

Theatre Office Natori was established in 1996 as a production company, focusing on the production of plays and dance performances.\u00a0 In addition to undertaking performances of the works of modern playwrights such as Minoru Betsuyaku throughout the world, Theatre Office Natori has also been responsible for introducing overseas playwrights, both from the east and the west, to Japan.\u00a0 This has included arranging the translation and performance of works by Russian playwrights who are representative of 20th<\/sup> century Russian theater, such as, Mikhail Bulgakov, N.Ptushkina, Nina Sadur, Aleksandr Vampilov, and Aleksei Arbuzov.\u00a0 Additionally, Theatre Office Natori organized an International Ibsen Festival in Tokyo, towards the goal of introducing Henrik Ibsen\u2019s works to Japanese audiences.\u00a0 Their recent production of The Butcher<\/em>, written by Nicolas Billon and performed by Kyo Ogasawara, has received numerous Yomiuri Theater Awards and Kinokuniya Theatre Awards, resulting in their theater company receiving high praise as a leader in modern Japanese theater.<\/p>\n

The internship offered the TUFS students the opportunity to learn about translation work associated in supporting an overseas performance; in this case Minoru Betsuyaku\u2019s play Zo<\/em> (Elephant)<\/em>, which was performed by Manabe Takashi, and which was seventh in a series of overseas productions supported by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.\u00a0 This overseas performance is part of the Russian and Japanese governments\u2019 program of bilateral cultural exchanges, known as \u201cJapanese year in Russia,\u201d which has received a lot of notice in Russia.\u00a0 The piece was performed on the 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> of June at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in St. Petersburg, and on the 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> of June at Raykin Higher School of Performing Arts in Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u3000Beyond facilitating communication through translation between the Russian stage staff and the production company staff in regard to sound, lighting, and stage production, the students who participated in the internship also translated the comments and impressions of audience members for the Japanese staff.<\/p>\n

Below are the impressions of the students.<\/p>\n