September 10 at 5 p.m. Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoi presents a lecture by Professor of the University of Kumamoto-Gakuen (Japan) Zetaro Ota “Tours of the Kabuki Theater in Moscow and Leningrad in 1928”, dedicated to the Year of the Theater in Russia.

Viewers will learn about the first tour of the Japanese ancient theater, whose performances aroused great interest. In the USSR, the Japanese troupe was invited by the All-Union Society for Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries. At a lecture, Jotaro Ota will talk about the famous productions and actors of the Kabuki theater, which made a real sensation in the Soviet Union, as well as about the circumstances of the agreement between Japan and the USSR on mutual cultural exchange. The lecture will include Akhmatova, Konrad, Meyerhold, Radlov, Sollertinsky, Eisenstein and others.

Admission to the lecture is free. Pre-registration is required by phone: 255-38-67.
Limited number of seats!

About the lecturer:

Professor Jotaro Ota (Kumamoto-Gakuen University, Japan), Ph.D. (literary criticism), Russian scholar. In 1989, he graduated from the Russian language department at the Tokyo Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1992, he graduated from graduate school at the same institute, defended his thesis “Poetry of Alexander Blok in the” Trilogy of Incarnation “.” Research interests and publications: Russian literature and cultural studies; Andrey Bely, Alexander Blok, Ivanov-Razumnik, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Boris Pilnyak, Korney Chukovsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko and other writers in 1910-1930; life and work of Varvara Bubnova; Kabuki theater in Russian theater and art, etc.