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Ninagawa Yukio
Jun. 13th, 2014 10:32 pmAwhile back, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bronze_ribbons wrote a Haru ficlet called More Than Kin and Less Than Kind, in which Katou is offered the role of Hamlet in a production by a famous director named Ninagawa. His nemesis (and my fave character) Kikuchi is supposed to play the role of Hamlet's villainous stepfather Claudius. I was so tickled by the idea, that I ended up writing a few follow-up fics to that story: Realism (Hamlet Done Haru-style), Strange Bedfellows, and Much Ado About...Something?
What I hadn't realized, until we got into a discussion in the comments on the IJ "Realism" post, was that Ribbons had based the Ninagawa character on a real person, who is indeed famous for his Shakespeare productions. I was surprised, and thought he sounded like an interesting person, but really didn't think much about it after that. Until last week, that is, when I was channel-surfing and came across an (English language) NHK World special on Ninagawa Yukio on the local PBS affiliate.
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bronze_ribbons wrote a Haru ficlet called More Than Kin and Less Than Kind, in which Katou is offered the role of Hamlet in a production by a famous director named Ninagawa. His nemesis (and my fave character) Kikuchi is supposed to play the role of Hamlet's villainous stepfather Claudius. I was so tickled by the idea, that I ended up writing a few follow-up fics to that story: Realism (Hamlet Done Haru-style), Strange Bedfellows, and Much Ado About...Something?What I hadn't realized, until we got into a discussion in the comments on the IJ "Realism" post, was that Ribbons had based the Ninagawa character on a real person, who is indeed famous for his Shakespeare productions. I was surprised, and thought he sounded like an interesting person, but really didn't think much about it after that. Until last week, that is, when I was channel-surfing and came across an (English language) NHK World special on Ninagawa Yukio on the local PBS affiliate.
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