'Kuroneko' plays on Poe's thriller

[John Lindsey]

One of Japan's most in-demand young creators, 38-year-old visual designer and film director Shutaro Oku, is currently debuting as a theater director with "Kuroneko," his adaptation of 19th century American author Edgar Allan Poe's short thriller masterpiece "The Black Cat." Though this production at the New National Theatre in Hatsudai, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo is Oku's first role as a stage director, he is already well known in the theater world as an award-winning visual designer who has regularly collaborated with such luminaries as Hideki Noda, Yukio Ninagawa and Suzuki Matsuo. In addition, he's lately started to direct live events featuring shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute), piano and electric organ, as well as stagings of contemporary dance and calligraphy performances.

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