Tour in Japan

Tour poster - face

On Tuesday July 19th we are traveling to Japan Rebecca Simpson and myself to start a national tour with the show "Full Hands," and we will be busy until August 18th. There are seven places where we operate, with a total of 17 representations:


- Okinawa, an island located in an archipelago of 160 islands called by the same way. It is the southernmost region of Japan, and is famous as the birthplace of karate and other martial arts.
- Osaka, Japan's third largest city, undisputed capital of Bunraku and Kabuki.
- Nagoya, Japan fourth largest city located between Osaka and Tokyo, known for its automobile industry and in the Second World War the city was destroyed in its entirety.
- Tokyo, the capital, a city in which we will performance twice: once for the Instituto Cervantes and another for the Teatro Puk, organizer of the tour. Although the center of Tokyo, with 23 districts has a population of about 8,340,000 inhabitants, the metropolitan area reaches about 34.5 million, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.
- Nagano, west of Tokyo, also known as the "roof of Japan" for being in a mountainous area. Zenkoji Temple is famous, a place of pilgrimage as well as macaques Jigokudani Park, where monkeys bathe in hot pools, especially in winter.
- Chiba, a city located in Tokyo Bay
- Sapporo, Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan. Curiously it was in this city where Maria Callas last performed on stage, on November 11, 1974 (says Wikipedia).

Tour poster - back

During the trip, is expected to know several theaters, festivals and popular traditions of puppetry in the country. A trip that opens our Routes of Punchinello to the confines of the Rising Sun Land. I'll bring updates.

Good Pulcinella videos

I received the link to three great videos about the Neapolitan Pulcinella, with several interviews with Maestros as Nunzio Zampella, Giovanni Pino, Bruno Leone, Salvatore Gato or Otelo Sarzi, with images from different historic moments, all very interesting. A valuable document that has put in his Youtube channel Licio Esposito.