Yoshie Yamamoto

Photo: Junpei Iwamoto

Yoshie Yamamoto

Administrative Director of The Yamamoto Noh Theatre
The Yamamoto Noh Theatre (Yamamoto Nohgakudo) is the oldest Noh theater in Osaka and one conducting some of the most progressive programs. Since more than ten years ago the theater has offered a program of evening performances for beginner audiences called “Kyoto-Osaka Traditional Performing Arts Night for Beginners” that present beginner audiences with programs bringing together a selection of different traditional performing arts of the Kyoto-Osaka area. The theater has also overturned many of the conventional practices of the Noh tradition in ways such as leaving the Noh stage to give Noh demonstrations in building entrance spaces, or Noh performances on boats, as well as collaborative performances with contemporary artists.
In 2012, the theater organized its first overseas performances in Bulgaria, and in 2016 it was invited to the Sibiu International Theater Festival (FITS, Romania), where its performances were a great success, and increasing efforts are being directed to such international exchange programs. Recognition for these overseas exchange programs lead to the Theatre being awarded the Japan Foundation’s “Global Citizenship Prize.”