Projects

The Oshima Noh Theatre of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, and Theatre Nohgaku will collaborate for the first time in a joint production in Europe. They will perform a new, contemporary English-language noh play PAGODA by Jannette Cheong with music by Richard Emmert, in London and …

In honor of the Noh Training Project Bloomsburg's 10th anniversary year, Theatre Nohgaku was invited to perform an outdoor takigi (torchlit) performance of this classic noh play. It was an exciting challenge for our members as it was done in Japanese with only the ai-kyogen (comic interlude) in English. A synopsis of the story follows: …

Greg Giovanni, a theatre director, playwright, performer and TN member from Philadelphia, had his first exposure to noh performance when he attended the Noh Training Project in Bloomsburg, PA in the summer of 1999. Reportedly, he nearly left after the first week. …

I wrote the words and music of Crazy Jane in 1983, inspired by a character of that name who appears in the poetry of W. B. Yeats. I had completed a bachelor’s degree in music composition at the University of Michigan and had been studying noh in Tokyo for about four years, …

At the Hawk’s Well by the Irish poet-playwright W.B. Yeats was first staged in London in 1916 and it reflected Yeats’ newly developed interest in noh. Although Yeats had never seen an actual performance of noh, he first encountered it through the translations of Earnest Fenollosa …

I. Purpose:  At the turn of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats wrote a handful of noh plays in English that were said to be ahead of their time. There hasn’t been a writer of such prominence since then to write more than one. The canon of Japanese noh plays hovers somewhere around 250. …