gregory robic: But you could say he was destined for the life from the start, according to The Japan Times. I decided to stay for the rest of my life in Japan only three days after my arrival in 1999 Sunshine recalls, describing his fascination with the country, its people and culture. One might never guess that the 47-year-old Canadian from Toronto is poised to introduce Americans to Japanese culture by performing the craft at an off-Broadway theater in New York City in mid-November, as the first non-Japanese rakugo storyteller in post-war Japan. ; Sunshine himself, whose real name is Gregory Robic, never imagined he would live the life he leads now, devoted to mastering a 400-year-old art form in the East while taking on the challenge to convey it to the West, and raising the necessary funds for the production through mainly Japanese investors. Rakugo, in its essence, incorporates everything he learned through the study of ancient Greek comedies something he discovered during his rakugo apprenticeship, he explained at a presentation for around 50 potential investors and sponsors in Tokyo in early September. Sunshine first encountered rakugo in a small tatami room on the second floor of a yakitori restaurant in his neighborhood near Yokohama Station, where he used to dine out eight times a week. He initially planned a six-month visit to appreciate Japan's traditional theater arts noh and kabuki after reading text from a scholar about a commonality that exists in traditional Japanese art forms with the old European dramas of more than 2,000 years ago.
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