The International Theatre Company London (ITCL) was founded in 1980 by performers trained in the unique Grotowski Method of physical theater. Originally it was called TNT, The New Theatre. The group came to Japan for the first time in 1992 with the production of Wizard of Jazz, a winner of Evening Star Award at the Munich Biennial Festival in 1990. Hailed by The Guardian as "unusual, entertaining, witty and stylized..." the work well reflects the motto of ITCL, " Tragedy with A Smile on Its Lips."
Since then they have visited Japan regularly for the past 16 years. They have played in more than 70 universities (Waseda, Keio, Aoyama Gakuin, Rikkyo, Tokai, Asia, Kanda, Doshisha Women's, Kyoto Tachibana Women's, Keisen, Meisei, Shikoku, Matsuyama, Ohtani, Kwassui, Seinan, Sapporo Gakuin, Obihiro Ohtani, Hokusei Gakuin, Tokyo Christian Woman’s, Nagoya Women’s, and Hiroshima Jogakuin) and more than 5 high schools (Canadian Academy, Hibiya, Azabu, Nishimachi International, Nagoya Kokusai, etc.) The public performances were given in the city halls of major cities as well as major US bases.
The productions include:
Animal Farm, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (PaulStebbings and Phil Smith), Gulliver's Travel, Pygmalion, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Canterville Ghost, The Brave New World, Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Ghosts of Poe, Macbeth, 1984, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oliver Twist , Hamlet, A Christmas Carol ,Romeo and Juliet Pygmalion, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew and Frankenstein.
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