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Festival/Tokyo 2017

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"In our distance, there is no sorrow."

Genre:
  • Theater / Dance
Photo: Hideaki Hamada / Photo: Ivy Chen

A story told simultaneously in two places about what is near yet far away

The playwright and director Yukio Shiba has established a strong reputation for highly individual yet universal theatrical portrayals of humanity. His award-winning musical play “Our Planet” was the allegorical tale of both a planet and a girl. Making his debut at Festival/Tokyo, this premiere is a meditation on the theme of distance and the Great East Japan Earthquake, which Shiba was far away from when it occurred.

Two plays unfold simultaneously across two adjacent theatre spaces, serving as a metaphor for the distance that causes the mental divides and various boundaries separating us. The audiences in each theatre will experience fragments of plays based on songs written by the Taiwanese musician Blaire KO. As they watch, the audiences’ imaginations are drawn to the other story happening nearby and how the two plays form a single overall narrative.

A co-production between F/T and Taipei Performing Arts Center (scheduled to open in 2019), the play will be performed at Taipei Arts Festival in 2018. From staging a play on a ship to taking up residence on an island to create new work, Shiba is known for inventively exploring the relationship between theatre, audience and lifestyle. Now he will reveal our futures in the gap between two spaces that are so near yet so far at the same time. For his new work, Shiba has turned to a wide range of Taiwanese collaborators. The costumes have been created by a local fashion brand, TRAN, while the musician Blaire KO composed the tracks from which Shiba structured and wrote the play script.

Running Time: 75 min. (TBC)
Language: Performed in Japanese with English surtitles

Dates

Saturday, October 7 2017, 19:30
Sunday, October 8 2017, 19:30
Monday, October 9 2017, 14:00 / 18:00
Wednesday, October 11 2017, 19:30
Thursday, October 12 2017, 19:30
Friday, October 13 2017, 19:30
Saturday, October 14 2017, 14:00* / 18:00
Sunday, October 15 2017, 14:00

No performance: Tuesday, October 10 2017

*Post-show cafe event

Box office opens 1 hour before. Doors open 30 minutes before.

Cast & Creative

Performers: Masahiro Oishi (mamagoto, NYLON100C), Tomoyo Okada, Kaoruko Oyama, Kazuki Kushio (Seinendan), Seiya Suzuki, Mayumi Tsubaki (Seinenza), Kinuyo Nogami (FAIFAI, march project), Niina Hashida (mamagoto, Seinendan), Riko Fujitani, Hikaru Morioka (Fushigishonen)
Written and Directed by Yukio Shiba (mamagoto)
Assistant Director: Maki Kimata
Stage Managers: Tsubasa Yamashita, Junichi Takahashi
Stage Design: Takuya Aoki
Stage Design Assistant: Kenji Hamasaki
Music: Blaire KO
Sound: Daisuke Hoshino (Sound Weeds Inc.)
Sound Operator: Mizuho Sorimachi (Sugar Sound)
Lighting: Ryoya Fudetani
Lighting Operator: Megumi Shimoda, Shoko Mishima
Video: Mamoru Kano (WOW / Futurismo Zugakousaku), Hironobu Sone (Tohoku Institute of Technology), Takuya Inagaki (WOW), Yuki Saito (WOW)
Video Technician: Takaki Sudo
Costumes: TRAN
Costume Coordinator: Keith Lin
Entrance Design: Ryoko Ando (DESIGN MUSICA)
Publicity Design: Ivy Chen, Hideaki Hamada
Publicity Hair & Makeup: Asumi Washizuka
Publicity Design: Yuma Harada (UMA / design farm)
Documentation: Kuan-Yu Chen
Surtitles: Christopher Gregory
Surtitles Supervisor: Hachiya Mizutani
Production Website Editor: Makiko Ochi (LittleSophy)
Publicity supported by Pola Museum of Art
Special cooperation from Steep Slope Studio
In cooperation with OPOSS INC., letre, Seinenza Film Production, Seinendan, NYLON100C, Switch Research Institute, FAIFAI, Fushigishonen, march project
Production Coordinators: Mayuko Arakawa (Festival/Tokyo), Nakaba Kato (mamagoto)
Production Managers: Chika Kawai (Festival/Tokyo), Takuo Miyanaga (mamagoto, ZuQnZ)
Taiwan Coordinator: Yukio Nitta
Interns: Sara Gunnare, Haruna Kobayashi, Misaki Hayashi, Mai Yamamoto
Front of House: Urara Tsukuni

Presented by Festival/Tokyo, mamagoto
Supported by The Saison Foundation
Co-produced by Festival/Tokyo, Taipei Performing Arts Center
Supported by the Ministry of Culture (Taiwan)　
In cooperation with Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government; Taipei Culture Foundation; Taiwan Cultural Center, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan
Research and workshop supported by Performing Arts Alliance, CO3, Tainan City Government

Tickets

Unreserved seating
Advance: 4,000 yen
Same Day: 4,500 yen
Students: 2,600 yen

・F/T Ticket Center

Contact

Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee office
4F 5-24-12 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0031 Japan
TEL: 03-5961-5202
E-mail: contact@festival-tokyo.jp

Period

Saturday, October 7 – Sunday, October 15 2017
No performance: Tuesday, October 10 2017

Venues

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Theatre East and Theatre West)

Credit

Organized by
Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee,
Toshima City, Toshima Future Culture Foundation, NPO Arts Network Japan (NPO-ANJ),
Arts Council Tokyo & Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

Festival/Tokyo 2017 is organized as part of Tokyo Festival 2017.