TALK: Chasing After Kabuki Icons: An Actor's Experience
David Furumoto
Thursday, February 10 / 7:00 PM / Free
Buchanan 1920

Actor, dancer, and professor, David Furumoto will be performing some favorite monologues from Kabuki plays. Kabuki was the popular theatre of Tokugawa-period Japan (1603-1867) and is still extremely popular today. Professor Furumoto will also be relating some of his experiences as a student of Kabuki and Classical Japanese Dance, as well as sharing insights into the world of Kabuki, Professor Furumoto holds a MFA in Directing and Asian Theatre from the University of Hawaii as well as a Professional Certificate in the Onoe School of Classical Japanese Dance. An award-winning performer – and Scottish Bagpiper – he has performed, directed, and taught Japanese theatre and dance for twenty years, now at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and the Playwrights’ Guild.

Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, East Asian Center, Japanese Program Fund, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, department of Dramatic Art, Department of Asian American Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

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