WhatonStage.comでの劇評。 藤原と勝地は、外見からして、ほとんど双子のよう。最後に 平和へのメッセージが明らかになり、とても感動的だった。 周りにすすり泣く人もいた。 最初の竹やぶのシーンは「今まで見たシーンでももっとも 美しいものの一つ」と絶賛されてた。 As Musashi and Kojiro, the highly acclaimed Tatsuya Fujiwara and Ryo Katsuji could almost be twins with their matching top knots and robes, and when the pacifist message finally hits home at the end their kinship is deeply moving (reducing several audience members around me to tears).
Never has this great director created such a serenely terrifying, Prospero-style spell, where lighting, music, and spectacle conspire first to frighten, then to steer us into a profoundly philosophical calm.
dazzling As always with a Ninagawa production, one is struck by the sheer physical beauty of the work. This is an extraordinary theatrical event: the actor Tatsuya Fujiwara embodies that by conveying an immense sense of power through his own watchful stillness.