Performance review: Tomio to Yuriko (based on Romeo and Juliet) by Suemitsu Kenichi

Abstract

priate to her amoral satisfaction at the destruction she had caused, but I could not understand why the angry and grieving messenger eventually joined in. Perhaps the point was that nihilistic hedonism was the only possible way of living in the play’s amoral universe. As far as I could tell from comments I overheard during the interval, those unfamiliar with the play were having trouble following the plot but they seemed to be enjoying it. Even so, I’m sure I’m not the only one who would have preferred less music, especially in the second half, and an earlier ending time.