Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Sugiyama has been announced as an art advisor and stage director at the Vietnam Youth Theatre, the first time the theatre has a foreign art advisor and director as its official member.
A scene of play Uncle Vanya directed by Tsuyoshi Sugiyama.
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Sugiyama has been announced as an artadvisor and stage director at the Vietnam Youth Theatre, the first time thetheatre has a foreign art advisor and director as its official member.
Thehire was made after successful collaborative art projects between the theatreand the Japan Theatre Centre Without Walls.
“Long-termcooperation with foreign artists is a good choice of Vietnamese art troupes,”said Pham Chi Trung, the Youth Theatre's director.
"Ithelps to promote culture and art cooperation and provides Vietnameseaudience international-level standard performances."
Sugiyama receiveda systematic theatre education based on the Stanislavski System for five yearsat the Yutaka Wada theatre company establishedby Yutaka Wada who directed at the Moscow Art Theatre and has lectured asa Professor at the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Paris.
Afterstudying he joined Wada’s art troupe 21st Century Theater Action, Inc. andbegan to create theatre works with the artists from abroad.
Japanese director Tsuyoshi Sugiyama. Photos coutersy of Vietnam Youth Theatre
Healso studied at the MS Schepkin Higher Theater School, a department of the MalyTheatre and at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
Hecreates works mainly in Japan and brings the works with Theatre Centre WithoutWalls abroad.
Underthe support of the Japan Foundation, Sugiyama and his company have joineddomestic and international theatre festivals and held theatre workshops acrossAsia.
Sugiyamahas worked with the Youth Theatre since 2016 in a culturalcooperation project. He staged the play UncleVanya, winning the gold medal at the 4th HanoiInternational Experimental Theatre Festival last year.
Theplay had tour performances in Vietnam and Japan in 2018-2019.
"Webelieve that with strong expertise, profound artistic understanding and aspecial emotional attachment to the theatre over the past time, he will becomean important member contributing to the integration of the theatre intothe world as well as acting as a bridge contributing to deepening the goodrelationship between Vietnam and Japan," said Trung.
Foundedin 1978 by the Government, the Vietnam Youth Theatre is amember of the International Association of Theatre forChildren and Young People.
Underinternational co-operation projects, the theatre has worked withdirectors such as American Neil Simon Fleckman, German DominikGunther and Belgian Xavier Lukowski./.
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A scene of play Uncle Vanya directed by Tsuyoshi Sugiyama. 
Japanese director Tsuyoshi Sugiyama. Photos coutersy of Vietnam Youth Theatre