Japanese theatre director who harmonised the traditions of east and west in his productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen and EuripidesYukio Ninagawa, who has died aged 80, was a great Japanese theatre director whose work was marked by its astonishing visual bravura and its ability to harmonise eastern and western traditions. His first production to be seen in Britain was a Macbeth at the 1985 Edinburgh festival that left au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM on May 16, 2016