Today, TIP generally presents four mainstage shows per season. Social traditions resumed, and opening nights, certainly until the early 1960s, were black-tie occasions.
In April 1949, the curtain rose on two one-act plays, Miss Fingernail by Beryl Kent and Hecuba by Euripides. "Procurement demands" ensured facilities for set construction and professional painting. TIP was reorganized after the war when the Occupation forces made theaters available. By 1940, TIP was declared an espionage center and forced to disband. In the period leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese authorities insisted on inspecting detailed translations of every play. Their mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse (Lillian Fontaine), appeared in several productions, including the Arabian-Nights-themed drama Kismet in 1917. The family of Academy Award-winning actress sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine, (both born in Tokyo), were active in TIP. Opening night was November 6, 1896, the theater was a university hall, and audience members arrived by rickshaw. Ī Lesson in Love by Charles Smith Cheltnam was TIP's first production, with support from the Imperial House of Japan. The first committee meeting was held the following week at the Belgian Legation. Prominent among the roughly hundred people in attendance were the Chief of Mission of Belgium, Baron Albert D'Anethan, and his wife, the Baroness, who was one of the committee of nine Japanese and European men and women voted into office. The group was formed at the original Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. TIP productions range from classics to musicals to contemporary and original pieces, in venues including Theater Sun-mall Shinjuku, Ebisu Echo Theater, Nakano Pocket Square, and Our Space in Hatagaya.įebrumarked the first general meeting of the Tokyo Dramatic and Musical Association-known today as Tokyo International Players. Tokyo International Players, also known as TIP, is the oldest, largest English-language theatre group in Japan and is among the oldest in Asia.
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