Insights we got from Tadashi Suzuki the Shogun of Toga

This book is both an irreverent and insightful forensic dissection of the greatest theatrical genius of the late 20th century, Tadashi Suzuki. Suzuki is unique in that he has developed a true actor training system AND also established an sustained an artistic empire based in a village in the Japanese alps, Togamura. Both have enabled him to create a body of work over a period of over 50 years unmatched by any other theatre practitioner in the world. Both authors establish that in terms of power and elegance, The Man from the Mountain should be compared with Stanley Kubrik in film and Richard Wagner in Opera. Whilst there are other 'official' books, they merely describe the tracks of the Boss's history. The authors have for the first time, articulated the 'hows' and 'whys' of the Tiger of Toga's phenomenal career trajectory in ways that are both disrespectful and highly illuminating. Such a paradoxical attitude reflects the paradigms that enabled Suzuki's remarkable theatrical achievements.