"I' the East my pleasure lies" Shakespeare says, and this winter it has been my great pleasure to direct two very different plays, both set on the other side of the world, in the Far East: The Orphan of Zhao a Chinese play, dating back to the Ming Dynasty and before, which opened our winter season in the Swan Theatre in Stratford, in a new adaptation by James Fenton, and now a huge samurai epic set in Feudal Japan.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM on January 27, 2013