ANU Za Kabuki Club will perform Topknot Bunshichi at Theatre 3 – The Canberra Times

The Australian National University Za Kabuki Club has performed Japanese theatre in Canberra, around Australia and internationally for more than 40 years. It has described itself as the longest-running Kabuki group outside Japan and has been supported by the Embassy of Japan for more than two decades.

About 30 of the 40 current members of the group – from a range of nationalities and backgrounds – are continuing the tradition with this year’s production, an somewhat Australianised version of the early 20th-century comedy Topknot Bunshichi. It will be directed by the senior lecturer in Japanese studies, Dr Shun Ikeda. The play will be performed mostly in Japanese with English surtitles.