sleepwalking

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Basement Mori

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year

The 3rd Startup Subsidy in FY 2023

Sleepwalking (2024)

Sleepwalking (2024)

Sleepwalking (2024)

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Business Overview

The performance lasts about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Six actors play multiple roles as families, lovers, family members, and friends who live around a botanical garden. In the performance, the break in the scene and the role of the actor at that time are not clearly indicated. The arrangement in which the actors pass each other, the mime that does not imitate real action, and the uncertainty of events blur the space and time in the play, giving a perceptual experience different from everyday life. Nevertheless, it aimed to be an opportunity to rethink the society we live in from the people and relationships that seem to exist somewhere. Producer: Manami Kurahashi Performers: Mayuko Ogawa, Saguki Ochiai, Ryo Sugita, Yuka Nakagawa, Ruri Hirayama, Ryuhei Maeda Lighting Operator: Akane Imamura Lighting Plan: Manami Kurahashi Producer: Ryo Sugita

implementation period

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 26th (Sun)

Place of implementation

Kagurazaka Session House (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)

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Profile

[Basement Mori]
A theater gathering co-represented by Manami Kurahashi and Ryo Sugita. Founded in 2021 by 2 members who both graduated from the Department of Physical Imagery at the Faculty of Contemporary Psychology at Rikkyo University, the company performed its first theatrical production, Miuna no Tomotomo, in April 2023. Referring to the existence and information of people who are eliminated in daily life as “invisible things, ” he seeks ways to bring attention to them through performances.