Japan seems like, I don’t know – ‘strange’ is completely the wrong word, it’s just so far from what we know. I’m loving a peek into someone’s first hand experience.

I missed that conception and was reading it as a “how can we bring English-language theatre to Japan?” piece. My mistake.

I don’t think Benjamin, expected a thriving English language theatre scene in Japanese society. I asked him (through the comments section of a different post actually), to write a couple of pieces on what it was like for a Westerner who is limited by his ability to communicate to act and create theatre there (Okay not in those words, but that was what I was hoping for.). So these posts are his report on that experience.

I am hoping to have more pieces from other artists in other places in the world. Some of them them will be by authors who can communicate fully with the culture and some will not. Obviously, this fact will change the context of the pieces significantly.

Granted, the business practices in the arts in Japan is a fascinating (albeit scary) read, but to the greater point of the piece — an English-speaking-ex-pat actor should expect to not get a lot of work, I would imagine. You don’t move to Japan to speak to the mass population in English.