Antigone Anonymous - Substance/Purifying Empire

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Futon

subsidy category

Tokyo Art and Culture Appreciation Support Grant

Grant Type

single year

FY 2024 Tokyo Arts and Culture Appreciation Support Grant (newly established in FY 2024)

"Antigone Anonymous: Substance/Purifying Empire" (2024) viewing support (subtitled performance)

"Antigone Anonymous - Substance/Purifying Empire" (2024) support (reduced audience seats to half, more space)

"Antigone Anonymous - Substance/Purifying Empire" (2024) Photo by Erika Ohashi

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Business Overview

History repeats itself. Stories come back. Futon Masterpiece, reprise. Antigone written in ancient Greece by Sophocles and adapted by Brecht. A new story imagined based on the two. Performers: Ai Ozeki *, Yuri Nitta *, Norihiro Takigoshi, [A] Mayu Ozawa *, [B] Yoko Tatsuzo * * [A] and [B] are W cast staff Original idea: Bertolt Brecht "Antigone" Writer/Director: Hiroki Tokuchi * Sound/others: Yokai Sakurauchi * Costume: Yasuo Nagase Assistant Director: Rioha Nishimura Producers: Shotaro Kawasaki, Yuri Nitta * * Futon members Date: Friday, October 4, 2024 –14 (Mon) Venue: Atelier Shunpusha (Itabashi, Tokyo) Content of support: Performance with Japanese subtitles, lending of the script, and the part where you can watch the play loosely (The number of seats has been reduced to half and there is room, free access, it does not get completely dark, you can bring your own squeeze and rent it.) Date: October 6, 2024 14:00 14:00 October 13, 2024

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Profile

[Futon]
A theatrical company formed mainly by Hiroki Tokuchi in 2011.
In recent works, he has mainly adapted and performed classical plays.
Using a text that mixes the original world view of the play with images of the modern world, he asks the audience about the problems that surround us from the boundary between reality and fiction through the presentience of the play.