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marebito theater company "Performing Fukushima"

Genre:
  • Theater / Dance

Neither history nor narrative, a portrait of the daily incidents that embody Fukushima today

This is the third appearance at F/T for the long-term project by marebito theater company, which started in 2016. A team of playwrights visited Fukushima and wrote a series of short plays extracting a part of the local situation from their various perspectives. Staged in a highly minimal space, this is an attempt to turn these texts into “incidents” through the bodies of the actors. The series has attracted attention for its reinterpretation of the relationship between reality and theatre as well as play text and performance, realism and creation, and the possibilities of the actor’s body.

The previous two stagings of the project have created a body of 51 plays. Many of them capture fragments of everyday life that seem mundane occurrences on the surface. However, through staging the plays collectively arranged as a single work each time, this conjures up the distinct time and space of a “performed Fukushima.”

This year the project stages a set of plays by eight playwrights four times over four days. Neither history nor narrative, witness and absorb these performed incidents that take place only once.

Running Time:
10/25 (Thu.) approx. 140 min. (TBC, with interval)
10/26 (Fri.) approx. 140 min. (TBC, with interval)
10/27 (Sat.) approx. 170 min. (TBC, with interval)
10/28 (Sun.) approx. 155 min. (TBC, with interval)
Language: Performed in Japanese

Dates

Thursday, October 25 2018, 19:30
Friday, October 26 2018, 19:30
Saturday, October 27 2018, 18:00 ★
Sunday, October 28 2018, 14:00 ★

★Post-show talk

*Each performance is a different staging of plays written by Mitsuru Aida, Keisuke Kamiya, Natsuka Kusano, Takashi Shima, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Masataka Matsuda, Ippei Miyake, and Saki Yamada.
*The performed scripts and structures will be subsequently published on the F/T and marebito theater company websites.
*Box office opens 60 minutes before. Doors open 15 minutes before.

Cast & Creative

Written by Mitsuru Aida, Keisuke Kamiya, Natsuka Kusano, Takashi Shima, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Masataka Matsuda, Ippei Miyake, Saki Yamada
Directed by Ikuko Sekita, Nanase Terauchi, Hajime Matsuo, Masataka Matsuda, Ippei Miyake, Saki Yamada
Performers: Mitsuru Aida, Satoshi Ikuzane, Ai Ishiwata, Mikito Kato, Azusa Kamimura, Chiaki Kirisawa, Kazuya Sakai, Komiki Sato, Takashi Shima, Yume Tanaka, Maki Nishiyama, Akihiro Mima, Keita Yamashina, Mana Yumii, Shingo Yoshizawa, Wakaba Yonekura
Stage Manager: Junichi Takahashi
Lighting: Ayumi Kito
Publicity Design: Yujiro Sagami
Publicity Photography: Keiko Sasaoka
Documentation Photography: Masanobu Nishino
Video Documentation: Mikihiro Endo
Production Coordinators: Shuichi Ishimoto, Minami Nakamura, Ayano Misao, Mariko Mori (marebito theater company), Mayuko Arakawa, Wakana Arai (Festival/Tokyo)
Assistant Production Coordinators: Yuichiro Yoshida (marebito theater company)
Interns: Sumire Enjoji, Emi Kobori, Makiko Yamazato
In cooperation with Integrated Dance Company Kyo, Seinendan, TENNIS COURT, Fossette concierge, letre

Presented by Festival/Tokyo, marebito
Planned by marebito theater company

Tickets

Unreserved seating
Advance: 4,000 yen / Bench Seats: 3,000 yen
Same Day: 4,500 yen / Same Day (Bench Seats): 3,500 yen
Students: 2,600 yen
4-Performance Set: 14,000 yen
Other tickets available

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

Venues

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Theatre East)

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 2018 is organized as part of Tokyo Festival 2018.