Ashley Thorpe
Ashley Thorpe performs the Priest (ai) in the noh Between the Stones at the Southbank Centre London, 2020
Ashley Thorpe is Reader in the Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance at Royal Holloway University of London. He began studying noh in 1997 and has been taught by Kita School performers, Richard Emmert, Akira Matsui and Teruhisa Oshima.
Theatre Nohgaku member and Director of the Noh Training Project UK which began in 2011, he has published twelve books, including the forthcoming Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre: Texts & Analyses of English-Language Noh. He has also written his own English-language noh, Emily which premiered at Tara Arts, London in 2019, and has performed in international touring productions of the English-language noh Between the Stones (2019) and the French-language noh Medea (2023 & 2024).