Chance Decides at The Italian Restaurant
By Gareth Richards
August 2017 FEATURE
A breathtaking Noh play comes to the George Town Festival. Don’t miss it.Naohiko Umewaka, writer and director of The Italian Restaurant.The head turns. The gaze is unerring, immovable yet expressive. And in its turn the audience offers back its gaze, transfixed by a gesture, a precise movement, waiting for the declamatory words. But it is not a man’s face we see. The lights glint on a golden mask worn by a Noh actor. The expression appears implacably fierce, almost sinister,...
Gareth Richards
is a writer, editor and bookseller.
