Sadler's Wells, London: Subtitled The Shogun and the English Samurai, this cross-cultural play was premiered in 2009 in Japan and revived for a second season in 2012. With the help of the RSC, it now reaches Britain just in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Anglo-Japanese trade. It is based on the true story of William Adams, an English sailor on a Dutch ship that was shipwrecked off the coast of Japan in 16…
SOURCE: The Stage at 07:18AM on February 4, 2013