Kafka on the Shore by Ninagawa Company (Japan)

After delighting Singapore audiences with his sold-out samurai comedy Musashi, celebrated Japanese theatre icon Yukio Ninagawa returns with a striking theatrical adaptation of much-beloved author Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. Take a trip with a 15-year old boy who runs away from home with an imaginary friend to escape a prophecy. An old man who travels for the first time in his life to find a magic stone. Two parallel journeys collide and reality, myth and dream converge in a mind-bending tale set in modern-day Japan.

The bewitching tale, vividly presented against a series of multilayered sets, features an ensemble cast led by the Japan Academy Award-winning Rie Miyazawa (The Twilight Samurai), and noted actors Naohito Fujiki and Nino Furuhata.

Murakami’s characters inhabit a magical, surrealistic world brought stunningly to life through the sure hand of a theatre master.

Kafka On The Shore is running from Friday, 30 October 2015 to Sunday 1 November 2015 at the Esplanade Theatre. Showtimes for Friday, 30 October and Saturday 31 October are at 8 pm. Showtime on Sunday, 1 Nov 2015 is at 2pm. Standard tickets are priced at S$118, S$88, S$68, S$48. Box B-G tickets are at S$88. All prices exclude booking fee.

For more information, visit [SISTIC](http://sistic.com.sg/events/kafka1115#).


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