Futon's new play performance "XXXX (Name of the evil spirit that threatened the kingdom)"

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Name of the organization or individual

Futon

subsidy category

Tokyo Art and Culture Appreciation Support Grant

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single year

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

Obuton's new play performance "XXXX (the name of the evil spirit that threatened the kingdom)" (2025) viewing support (subtitled performance)

Support for Obuton's new play performance "XXXX (The name of the evil spirit that threatened the kingdom)" (2025) (Reduce the number of seats in the audience to half and make room)

Futon's new play performance "XXXX (The name of the evil spirit that threatened the kingdom)" (2025) Photo by Erika Ohashi

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Business Overview

Margaret, in defiance of gender and attitude correction, runs away from home and ends up in a wilderness mansion. There lived a strange person who called himself Macbeth X. Based on "Macbeth," Futon sends an authentic play about facing an unstable world while remaining unstable. Performers: Ai Ozeki *, Koharu Tasaki, Yasumi Nagase *, Yuri Nitta *, Shun Hatakeyama, Yamato Fujiya Draft: William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Writer/Director: Hiroki Tokuchi * Sound/Lighting: Yokai Sakurauchi * Assistant Director: Yotaro Uemura Costume: Yasuo Nagase Art: Yuki Nakatani Stage Director: Akira Kawai Producers: Shotaro Kawasaki, Yuri Nitta * Subtitle production/operation: Hiroki Tokuchi * Subtitle production assistance: Rioha Nishimura * Futon membersDate: Saturday, March 8, 2025 – 16th (Sun) Venue: Theater Babylon no Nagarebi (Kita-ku, Tokyo) Viewing support: Japanese subtitled performance, lending of script, and relaxed viewing (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: 13:00, Sunday, March 9, 2025, Saturday, March 15, 2025 15:00, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 18:00

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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.