SUZUKI TADASHI

“The Elephant” (by Minoru Betsuyaku), Tokyo

“A and B, and a Woman” (by Minoru Betsuyaku), Tokyo

Suzuki founds the theatre company Waseda Shogekijo together with Minoru Betsuyaku, Hiroshi Ono, Ikuko Saito, Kosuke Tsutamori and others.
Completion of the theatre space named “Waseda Shogekijo”, Tokyo

“The Little Match Girl” (by Minoru Betsuyaku) for the opening of the new theatre, Waseda Shogekijo, Tokyo

“The Temple Gate” (by Minoru Betsuyaku), Tokyo

“The Candlestick” (by Masayuki Nobeyama), Tokyo

“Click-Clack Mountain” (by Osamu Dazai), Tokyo

“The Sparrow Who Lost Her Tongue” (by Osamu Dazai), Tokyo

“My Beatles or Funeral” (by Makoto Sato), Tokyo

“The Smile of Dr. Maximillian” (by Minoru Betsuyaku), Tokyo

“Narukami (The Thunder God)” (composition by Suzuki based on the Kabuki play), Tokyo

“The Lower Depths” (composition by Suzuki and Minoru Betsuyaku based on Maxim Gorky's play), Tokyo

“On the Dramatic Passions Ⅰ” (composition by Suzuki), Tokyo

“A Girl's Mask” (by Juro Kara), Tokyo

“On the Dramatic Passions Ⅱ” (composition by Suzuki), Tokyo

“White Comedy” (composition by Suzuki based on the plays by Nanboku Tsuruya), Tokyo

“On the Dramatic Passions Ⅲ” (composition by Suzuki), Tokyo

“Somekaete Gonichi no Omemie” (composition by Suzuki), Tokyo

Participation in Théâtre des Nations Festival in Paris (Artistic Director Jean-Louis Barrault) with “On the Dramatic Passions Ⅱ”

“Don Hamlet” (composition by Suzuki), Tokyo

Appointed Artistic Director of Iwanami Hall, Tokyo

“The Trojan Women” (by Euripides), Tokyo

“Night and the Clock” (composition by Suzuki), Tokyo

The company moves to Toga.

Opening of the converted farmhouse theatre, Toga Sanbo in Toga village, Toyama Prefecture with “Night and Feast Ⅰ” (composition by Suzuki)

“Mirrors and Cabbages” (by Yasunari Takahashi), Tokyo

“Night and Feast Ⅱ - Salome” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

“The Bacchae” (by Euripides), Tokyo

“Night and Feast Ⅲ - Macbeth” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

“Shadow of Death” (composition by Suzuki) at Festival d'Automne, Paris

“Night and Feast Ⅳ - A Family Disease” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

Musical “Sweeney Todd” (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim), Tokyo

Founds the Japan Performing Arts Center in Toga, Chairman

Opening of the Open Air Theatre in Toga

Holds the First International Theatre Festival in Japan: “Toga Festival”, in Toga

“The Luncheon” (composition by Suzuki), Tokyo

“Clytemnestra” (by Aeschylus and Euripides), Toga

“Tragedy - the Fall of the House of Atreus” (by Aeschylus and Euripides), Tokyo

Changes the company name from Waseda Shogekijo to Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT)

“King Lear” (by William Shakespeare), Toga

“Three Sisters” (by Anton Chekhov), Toga

“The Cherry Orchard” (by Anton Chekhov), Toga

Appointed Artistic Director of ACM Theatre, in Mito

“The Tale of Lear” co-produced by four American Regional Theatres

“Uncle Vanya” (by Anton Chekhov), Toga

“Hamlet” (adapted from William Shakespeare's Hamlet), Toga

“Dionysus” (by Euripides), Mito

“Macbeth” (by William Shakespeare), Mito

“Greetings from the Edge of the Earth” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

Founds Saratoga International Theatre Institute (SITI) with American Director, Anne Bogart in Saratoga Springs, New York
Presents a bilingual (Japanese and English) production of "Dionysus"

“Ivanov” (by Anton Chekhov), Mito

“Juliet” (adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), Toga

Founds the International Committee of Theatre Olympics with Theodoros Terzopoulos (Greece), Robert Wilson (USA), Yuri Lyubimov (Russia), Heiner Müller (Germany), Antunes Filho (Brazil) and others

Founds the BeSeTo (Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo) Theatre Festival amongst three countries, Japan, China and Korea, along with Kim Eui Kyung (President of Korean Centre of International Theatre Institute) and Xu Xiao Zhong (President of the Central Academy of Drama, China)
The 1st BeSeTo Theatre Festival in Seoul

Opening of the New Toga Sanbo

“Shrinking Japan Rises Again” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

Appointed General Artistic Director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC)

The 1st Theatre Olympics in Athens and Delphi

“Electra” (by Hofmannsthal) co-directed with Satoshi Miyagi, Toga

“John Silver” (by Juro Kara), Toga

“Click-Clack Mountain - New Version” (by Osamu Dazai), Toga

Opening of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Park

Opera “Vision of Lear” (music written by Toshio Hosokawa) for the Munich Biennale, International Festival for New Music Theatre

“The Mirror House” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

“Sake, the Taste of Tears” (composition by Suzuki), Shizuoka

Opening of the Shizuoka Arts Theatre

The 2nd Theatre Olympics in Shizuoka, hosted by SPAC

“Cyrano de Bergerac” (by Edmond Rostand), Shizuoka

“Sayonara Toga Festival” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

Founds of the Japan Performing Arts Foundation, Chairman of the board of directors

“Oedipus Rex” (by Sophocles), Shizuoka

Noh play “Utoh” (composition by Suzuki) with Hideo Kanze as the Shite, Shizuoka

“Cinderella - Bride of the Vampire” (composition by Suzuki), Shizuoka

“The Chekhov” (composition by Suzuki), Shizuoka

“Okuni and Gohei” (by Junichiro Tanizaki), Shizuoka

“Ghosts” (by Henrik Ibsen), Shizuoka

“King Lear” directed for the repertory of Moscow Art Theatre (Artistic Director Oleg Tabakov), Moscow

"The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi" published by Cambridge University Press

“Japanese Folks in the Hospital Ward” (composition by Suzuki), Shizuoka

“The Stranger in the Junkyard Shantytown” (composition by Suzuki based on Maxim Gorky's 'The Lower Depths'), Shizuoka

Buddhist liturgical chant “Gyatei-Gyatei”, Shizuoka

“A and B, and a Woman - New Version” (by Minoru Betsuyaku), Shizuoka

Resigns the General Artistic Director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center

“Madame de Sade (Act II)” (by Yukio Mishima), Shizuoka

“Electra” directed for the repertory of Taganka Theatre (Artistic Director Yuri Lyubimov), Moscow

“Click-Clack Mountain at the Junkyard Shantytown”, Toga

Opera “La Traviata”, Shizuoka

“Shrinking Japan Rises Again – New Edition” (by Shin Hasegawa), Toga

“La Dame aux Camélias” co-produced by National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei

“Shrinking Japan Rises Again – New Edition based on the play ‘Mother of My Dreams’” (by Shin Hasegawa), Toga

“Cinderella” (compositon by Suzuki), Shizuoka

Ikuko Saito, founding member and later Executive Director of SCOT, passes away.

“Mother of My Dreams –A New Adaptation– ” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

“The Origin of the Karatachi Song” (by Nobuo Kazawa), Toga

“The Trojan Women – New Version” (by Euripides), Toga

Presents “Dionysus” for the grand opening of the Gubei Watertown Great Wall Theatre, located at the foot of the Great Wall, north of Beijing
Holds the annual spring “Suzuki Training School” at Gubei Watertown beginning in 2016

“CULTURE IS THE BODY”, an English translation of Suzuki's writings on theatre, published by the Theatre Communications Group in New York

“Illusion Unbound” (by Kazawa Nobuo), Toga

“Nippon-jin－Based on the play “Mother of My Dreams”－”(by Shin Hasegawa), Toga

“Springtime in the North” (by Kazawa Nobuo), Toga

“Isolated Landscape in Winter” (composition by Suzuki), Toga

The 9th Theatre Olympics in Toyama (Toga, Kurobe) and St. Petersburg, jointly hosted by Japan and Russia
Appointed Artistic Director of the Japan program

Kosuke Tsutamori, founding member of the company, passes away.

Minoru Betsuyaku, founding member of the company, passes away.

“Greetings from the Edge of the Earth Ⅱ” (composition by Suzuki), Toga