When Akira Shirai first read the script for ¡°Ballyturk,¡± he quickly understood why its creator, Irish playwright Enda Walsh, said the work ¡°should bypass the intellect and go straight into your bones.¡±
The 60-year-old artistic director at Kanagawa Arts Theatre in Yokohama was mulling over what to stage next and he says the hilariously absurd piece, with its three-person cast of characters named One, Two and Three, left him somewhat dumbfounded.
¡°I said as much to the translator, Chizuko Komiyama, who then told me she didn¡¯t get it either,¡± the director says with a laugh. ¡°Yet somehow it just stuck with me, so I chose it without having to think twice.¡±
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