NNT Drama Studio "Women in Blue Stockings"

NNT Drama Studio was established in April 2005 with the objective of training the next generation of theatre actors.The Studio is led by a faculty of experts in theatrical education and prominent theatre makers from inside and outside of Japan.

The students who have entered the Studio in 2020 performed in a Reading Performance "Himeyuri" and the staging of "En la ardiente oscuridad (In the Burning Darkness)", and now ready to challenge one of MIYAMOTO Ken's masterpieces, "Women in Blue Stockings", as their final production before graduation.

"Women in Blue Stockings" is one of the author's best-known works depicting the spirit of the Taisho Modernist era. The first issue of "The Bluestocking", a literary magazine by women for women, was published with the opening line: 'In the beginning, women were really the sun'. This ensemble drama, directed by MIYATA Keiko, Director of NNT Drama Studio, portrays the women of the Blue Stocking Society including HIRATSUKA Raicho and ITO Noe, who led the women's liberation movement, and the people surrounding them including OSUGI Sakae and SHIMAMURA Hogetsu, who were part of the movement and went through the turbulent times.

Please come and see the fruit of these upcoming actors.

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The performances will be taking place based on the policies of the Japanese government and the Tokyo Metropolitan government, along with the guideline for the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 infection by the Association of Public Theatres and Halls in Japan.

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