I’m completely confused by that set of pictures.
Sometimes its white people (and one black dude) in Japanese getups. Other times its white people in RenFair getups.
What gives?
-FrL-
I see samurai but no ninjas. Unless they’re in disguise. (Historically, the ninja functioned more as spies than as assassins, so instead of black jumpsuits they wore whatever would blend in with the crowd.)
Color me more frightened than optimistic. I love that play, I’d hate to see it made into The Last Samurai meets Madam Butterfly, but as a comedy.
It’s got BRIAN BLESSED, HAH!
I can never watch him without recalling his turn as the king in The Blackadder.
I’d want to see it anyway, since I like Branagh’s Shakespeare, but with Brian Blessed it can’t fail! My favorite performance of his is Prince Vultan inFlash Gordon.
You can’t see them because they are Ninjas! 
I believe there are some in the trailer.
Yay! I heart Branagh. And Blessed, and who on earth is that scrumptiously yummy young man they have (mis)identified as Jimmy Yuill in the sixth picture of that series? He looks awfully familiar…
Fun fact: The image of a ninja dressed in all black with even his head wrapped up originates in japanese theatre. The stagehands who moved pieces of the set around between scenes wore all black to be inconspicuous, so as not to distract the audience from the characters. The audience wouldn’t notice when one of the “stagehands” hid behind a piece of the set. Then later in the show, a ninja, dressed in all black, comes from out of nowhere and kills someone. After a while, the black getup became associated with real ninjas.
Did anybody else think this was a Throne of Blood (or Kurosawa in general) thread?
Trivia about Brian Blessed: he’s an authority on mountain climbing who’s been on several Everest expeditions (though he hasn’t made it to the summit). He’s also the best friend of Patrick Stewart and vice versa.
Were they in the RSC together?