Theatrical Company Haiyuza Main Performance "Weeping Lear"

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Theater Company Haiyuza Limited

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Tokyo Art and Culture Appreciation Support Grant

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

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“Weeping Lear ” carefully depicts family feuds, delves into the ethics of the excluded and the excluded, and is a performance with themes of loss and destruction. The aim was to clarify what the Japanese sacrificed and what they gained by turning the Meiji period into a stage. For the role of King Lear (Sei Jitsuho), 92 year-old Kaneko Iwasaki, who has been active at the forefront of Japanese theater since the dawn of time until the present and is also the head of the theater company, was cast, along with mid-career actors such as Jun Saito and Mayumi Araki, as well as promising young actors. It is a program that embodies the theme of the 2024 fiscal year, "Connecting with our predecessors and thinking about the present" by the Haiyuza theater company. Date: Friday, November 1, 2024 - 9th (Sat) Venue: Haiyuza Theater (Minato-ku, Tokyo) Content: Voice guide, support by guide staffDate: 14:00, Monday, November 4, 2024, 14:00, 6th (Wed)

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[Theatrical Company Haiyuza]
The theatrical company Haiyuza was founded on February 10, 1944 by 10 members including Sugisaku Aoyama, Koreya Senda, Eijiro Higashino, Eitaro Ozawa, Chieko Higashiyama, Teruko Kishi, and Sachiko Murase. The company started its activities as the leader of theater revival early in the period of cultural confusion after the war. Since then, the company has continued its wide-ranging work aiming at the righteousness of theater with always high ideals.