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Geigeki Selection
"Les Parents Terribles"

50 years after his death, Jean Cocteau's masterpiece returns to life. Live theater at its best!

Genre:
  • Theater / Dance ,
  • Performance

Yvonne (Rei Asami) very much loves her son Michel (Shinnosuke Mitsushima), and is enraged when he falls in love with a girl. At the urging of his Aunt Léonie (Orie Sato), who lives with them, Michel speaks to his father Georges (Shu Nakajima), who is left speechless when he hears the girl’s name. She is his mistress. Each thinking their own thoughts, they all go to visit the girl, Madeleine (Tomoko Nakajima). But what shock awaits them there?

Playwright

Jean Cocteau

Translation/Script

Hiromasa Kiuchi

Director

Hirotaka Kumabayashi

Performers

Orie Sato
Tomoko Nakajima
Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Shu Nakajima
Rei Asami

Admission

Adult: 6,000 yen
High School Students: 1,000 yen
25 or younger: 3,000 yen
65 or older: 5,000 yen

Contact

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Box Office
Tel: 0570-010-296 (10:00-19:00 except when the Theatre is closed)

Organizers:
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Tokyo Culture Creation Project Office (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2013
Presented with permission of Le Comité Jean Cocteau, Pierre Bergé, PresidentJean COCTEAU
Copyright Agent:
Bureau des Copyrights Francais
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Venues

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre West