Mar 1970: Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee, directed by Pat Kelly Oct 1969: The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley, directed by Ken Macdonald & Pat Kellyĭec 1969: The Private Ear + White Lies + The Public Eye by Peter Shaffer, directed by Adrian Thorpeįeb 1970: Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward directed by Nancy Rosenblum (reading) May 1969: Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon, directed by George Furness & Bob Austin Mar 1969: The Relapse by John Vanbrugh, directed by Verner Bickley Oct 1968: You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running by Robert Woodruff Anderson, directed by Ken Macdonaldĭec 1968: See How They Run by Philip King, directed by Handel Evans & Peter Dupereįeb 1969: The Long Sunset by R. Sep 1968: The Love of Four Colonels by Peter Ustinov (reading) Mississippi by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, directed by Ray Purl Mar 1968: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Mann Jan 1968: The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry, directed by Peter Mann (reading)įeb 1968: The Odd Couple roadshow production to Nagoya & Kobe Oct 1967: Portrait of Murder by Robert Bloomfield, directed by Peter Dupereĭec 1967: The Odd Couple by Neil Simon, directed by Richard Via & George Furness Sep 1967: scenes from Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare + Romanoff and Juliet by Peter Ustinov (reading) Bombings during World War II destroyed TIP's pre-war records.Nov 1896: A Lesson in Love by Charles Smith Cheltnam Rehearsals are held at various venues around Tokyo. Ĭurrently, TIP uses several professional theater spaces in the Tokyo metropolitan area including Theater Sun-mall in Shinjuku, Ebisu Echo Theater, Pocket Square in Nakano, and Our Space in Hatagaya. Most TIP performances from 1974 to 2007 were staged in the Grand Ballroom of the Tokyo American Club. The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, one of the few buildings in Tokyo to withstand the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, had an intimate theater which hosted the club until the early 1960s. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2021, TIP shifted its focus to online programming, which included workshops and training opportunities for actors along with a festival of short plays. Second Stage features smaller-scale, black box-style productions. In June 2009, TIP launched its "Second Stage" series with Honiefaith by Monty DiPietro. Today, TIP generally presents four mainstage shows per season. Social traditions resumed, and opening nights, certainly until the early 1960s, were black-tie occasions. In April 1949, the curtain rose on two one-act plays, Miss Fingernail by Beryl Kent and Hecuba by Euripides. "Procurement demands" ensured facilities for set construction and professional painting. TIP was reorganized after the war when the Occupation forces made theaters available. By 1940, TIP was declared an espionage center and forced to disband. In the period leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese authorities insisted on inspecting detailed translations of every play. Their mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse (Lillian Fontaine), appeared in several productions, including the Arabian-Nights-themed drama Kismet in 1917. The family of Academy Award-winning actress sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine, (both born in Tokyo), were active in TIP. Opening night was November 6, 1896, the theater was a university hall, and audience members arrived by rickshaw. Ī Lesson in Love by Charles Smith Cheltnam was TIP's first production, with support from the Imperial House of Japan. The first committee meeting was held the following week at the Belgian Legation. Prominent among the roughly hundred people in attendance were the Chief of Mission of Belgium, Baron Albert D'Anethan, and his wife, the Baroness, who was one of the committee of nine Japanese and European men and women voted into office. The group was formed at the original Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. TIP productions range from classics to musicals to contemporary and original pieces, in venues including Theater Sun-mall Shinjuku, Ebisu Echo Theater, Nakano Pocket Square, and Our Space in Hatagaya.įebrumarked the first general meeting of the Tokyo Dramatic and Musical Association-known today as Tokyo International Players. Tokyo International Players, also known as TIP, is the oldest, largest English-language theatre group in Japan and is among the oldest in Asia.
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