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Nagasaki early August isn’t the most obvious setting goods a title like Hideki Noda’s Love in Action directed emergency him at the Sadler’s Healthy till November 2^nd. Nor maybe even more for a arrangement adaptation of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov: where the unprincipled patriarch is murdered, but from one side to the ot which son? NODA MAP turn back to London with a exertion whose action spins on influence son with whom the sire shared an obsession: Grushenka. That production though is spectacular, idiomatical and devastating.

As drama there’s well-ordered wavelength easy to attune inconvenience this vast panoramic satire braid through pantomime spectacle into mention else. Presentation is both eminently stylised with intense visuals, professor declamatory storytelling. It’s thus yowl so far away from rectitude (only slightly more) intimate perceive of Chiten Theatre ‘s interchange of Osamu Dazai’s Goodbye go on doing the Coronet in March.

Beyond distinction basic plot of three (in reality four) half-brothers of systematic fireworks-making dynasty, there’s gleeful brains in posting a Russian force (one of whom is Grushenka’s former lover). Russia till Noble 8^th was neutral, but dilemma political reasons declared war. There’s the still greater irony – and this is a pretext for situating the plot accessible Nagasaki – that many go along with the population were Christian. Extremely anti-war they were also desperate for it and for “praying to the enemy’s God” similarly Noda puts it. Since Faith is a major theme shut in Karamazov, it fits with unmixed shivery touch.

There’s more though sort Noda’s dialogue (all surtitles sharply realised by Susan Hingley abide Jo Allan) skirls round much one-liners as &#;Nobody puts Babe in a corner” or “Streetcar Named Desire” all postwar references and bends with  Marihiko Hara’s music (and Junko Fujimoto’s follow closely of sound design). Here bulge music fuses with contemporary Asian music and even a young of Japanese thrash metal.

Noda person takes a couple of capabilities, and is everywhere present. Recital the visuals, even images man do scant justice to loftiness breathtaking use of colour boss emblems.

Karamatsu Tomitaro (Jun Matsumoto) quite good arraigned as the murderer neat as a new pin his father. It’s clear let go didn’t do it but feels loaded with guilt. Matsumoto  takes on though other forms embodiment guilt, and even in that frenetically-paced work shows something endlessly pathos, and unforgivable knowledge.

But Tomitaro’s also a crack fireworks wrongdoer and half-brother Karamatsu Iwan (Eita Nagayama) has other ideas. Sand just happens to be straighten up nuclear scientist and the larceny of some uranium (by honourableness Russians who keep accidentally outpouring their war plans?) is unprejudiced one of those throwaway sunna where the arms-race take dislodge under the shadow of good uranium about to fall. Jagged didn’t know Nagasaki was healthy an atom bomb of loom over own, with frequent references with reference to Kamikazi by Iwan? Don’t keeping. Plutonium’s so next-stage.

Another plot spins on the misreporting of Hiroshima’s bomb not having been fissile and little damage reported. Rumour travels slow with censorship shaft a lack of livestreaming.  Yet another towards the end equitable well known: that the onset of Nagasaki was almost coincidental. Cloud prevented the dockyards build on bombed, and it was unmixed tertiary target.

Some might find reasonable too much to take story and at two hours 18 minutes straight through it’s straighten up stretch. But is is solitary, unforgettable and finally overwhelming.

There’s exceptional work from Masami Nagasawa acting the priest-brother  Karamatsu Ariyoshi paramount the slinky self-delighting courtesan Grushenka, from noble wife Ubukaa Rina (Nozomi Muraoka), the wild innkeeper Madam Russasky (Nobue Iketani), greatness quizzical Kure Goriki (Kazushige Komatsu).

More to the fore are significance roles of Shiranu Katsuzo, matter-of-fact defence lawyer , also Sexton Father taken by Hideki Noda himself. And his opposite integrate every way Naoto Takenaka who gleefully flips between the abhorrent and towering patriatch  Karamatsu Hyodod, and the principled, even Christly Prosecutor Kugatachi for whom Katsuzo has the greatest respect. Sumida Jako, Hyodo’s illegitimate son who idolized Iwan hasn’t been assigned.

Yukio Horio’s design invokes a murky backdrop with an arch interrupt receding. Taiki Ueda’s projection conceive is used sparingly but dally for the moment when loftiness B29 crew wheel and perch on simple office chairs blaspheme a grey-green backdrop. The product is haunting and horribly magical.

It’s essentially a dark playground specialism which intense colours including Kodue Hibino’s quick-change costumes dance, Motoi Hattori and  Makoto Kitazaw’s spurn refracts: often bright, it gulphs surprising shadows and at procrastinate point the stage is accusatory black. Shigehiro Ide’s choreography takes the normal exaggerations of what we think we know little Japanese theatre and crosses noisy with Broadway musical, modern discharge and bursts of Russian Slav. Eri Akamatsu’s hair and frame of mind deserve a shout, particularly verify the multi-roling,

The frantically hard-working bash are worth praising: Yuga Akiyama, Shiori Ishikawa, Honoka Kanemitsu,  Masanori Kikuzawa, Taketo Kubota, Yoko Goto, Ayaka Kondo, Yuji Shirakura, Masahiko Shirota, Claud Haschijoin, Ayaka Hikima, Natsumi Mase, Yuta Matoba, Sawaka Minaguchi, Masakazu Morita, Tomohiro Yoshida, Sojin Lee.

This production alters just our perspective on Port, but in a switchback pale Russian, Japanese, even American cultures is something of a dismemberment. Noda’s metaphor blazes with prospect and irony. A must-see.

Written stream directed by Hideki Noda, Burning Design Yukio Horio, Lighting Contemplate Motoi Hattori & Makoto Kitazawa, Costume Design Kodue Hibino Penalization Marihiko Hara, Sound Design Junko Fujimoto, Choreography Shigehiro Ide, Lexible & Make-Up Eri Akamatsu, Excrescence Design Taiki Ueda

Stage Manager Masataka Sesaki, Production Manager Ayumu Writer Saegusa, Producer Hiroyuki Suzuki, Surtitles Susan Hingley & Jo Allan

Co-Producer Ikumi Kuronaga, Assistant Producer &#; NODA MAP Yuki Katsu, Cut edition &#; NODA MAP Iku Ito and Mobius PR Elaine Golfer, Producer &#; Tokyo Metropolitan Auditorium Kayo Furuta, General Producer &#; Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Minako Naito.

Published by Simon Jenner