The Segal Center Welcomes Tadashi Suzuki Next Week

The Segal Center welcomes legendary Japanese theatre artist Tadashi Suzuki on perhaps his last visit to the United States. Suzuki (born 1939 in Shimizu) is a theatre director, writer, and philosopher working out of Toga, Toyama, Japan. He is the founder and director of the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), and organizer of Japan's first international theatre festival (Toga Festival).

With director Anne Bogart, Suzuki co-founded the Saratoga International Theatre Institute in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is the creator of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.

In conversation with Kameron Steele (editor and translator of Tadashi Suzuki's Culture Is the Body, TCG 2015) and Frank Hentschker.

Event Schedule

11:30am Screening: Special Feature Program on SCOT and Toga (2015) 20 min.
12:00pm Artist Talk: Tadashi Suzuki, Kameron Steele, Frank Hentschker
2:00pm Screening: Interview with Tadashi Suzuki (2015) 15 min.
2:15pm Screening: Suzuki's production of Chekhov's Ivanov (2004) 80 min.
3:45pm Screening: Documentary on Suzuki's Taiwan production of La Dame aux Camélias (2011) 56 min.

Tadashi Suzuki will present his 2016 Theatre Olympics version of his 1986 signature work,
The Trojan Women, in a rare performance at Skidmore College in upstate New York as part of
Transformation through Training: Symposium on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training,
May 31 - June 3 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Please visit www.siti.org/symposium2017 for more information.