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Profile of Aki
ISODA
Stage actress
- a play by solo performer –
Aki
Isoda is a pioneer of a play solo performer in Japan. She wrote a play
"Lady Macbeth", based upon Shakespeare's work and brought it on the
stage for the first time in 1971.
Since
1980 when a BBC TV program presented her on the air, she has performed not only
in Japan but also abroad in many times, including her stage of three running
weeks at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1990.
In
1991, Isoda received the "Shakespeare-in-Japan Award" from the
Shakespeare Globe Trust in London.
In
1996, at the opening of the Globe Theatre in London, which is a reconstruction
of the Globe Theatre at the time of Shakespeare, she successively played the
two heroines of Shakespeare on the same stage in "Lady Macbeth" (in a
Western style) and "A Vision of Ophelia" (in a Japanese style).
In
2002, she gave the same performance at the "Teatro Olimpico" in
Vicenza, Italy, the oldest indoor theatre existing in Europe (registered in the
UNESCO World Heritage List), and in 2006 in Athens, Greece.
Also
she performed Cambridge (England), Paris (France), Budapest (Hungary), Brussels
(Belgian), Singapore, Rome and Venice (Italy).
In
2010, Isoda received the "Foreign Minister’s Award" from the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs Japan.
She
is the president of Aki Isoda Institute of Recitation where she teaches
recitation with the "Isoda method" which systematizes her unique way
of vocalization and breathing.
Aki ISODA Office: 2-3-12-401, Naka-Meguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
153-0061 Japan.
Phone: +81 (0)3 3710 6607
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