New Plays 日本の新作戯曲
The Diver(ザ・ダイバー)
野田秀樹/コリン・ティーヴァン
The Diver
Hideki Noda with Colin Teevan
The Diver is a play conceived by Hideki Noda as a contemporary English-language drama and written in collaboration with the Irish playwright Colin Teevan. It takes as its subject characters such as female pearl divers ( ama ) and Lady Aoi, that appear in the novel The Tale of Genji from the middle of Japan’s Heian Period (9th to 12th centuries) and subsequent Noh plays. It is the second original English-language play by Noda following the 2006 play THE BEE produced in collaboration with Teevan and British actors, which won the 2007 Asahi Performing Arts Awards Grand Prix and the Grand Prize for Best Play of the 15th Yomiuri Theater Awards. The Diver has been produced jointly by London’s Soho Theatre and Tokyo’s Setagaya Public Theater, where it is the fourth of the “Contemporary Noh Series” to create new works by leading contemporary playwrights based on traditional plays from the Noh repertoire.