Grafus the Huntsman
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Ittoza
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 4(2022) 2nd Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
■Program: The Huntsman Grafs Written by F. Kafka Written and directed by Láš Oino Music: Akinori Inaba Stage Art: Soichi Nono Stage Director: Norihiko Morishita Lighting: Shigeo Saito Sound: Kazuma Koda Video: Mariko Miyata Costume: Kaifumi Iwao Performers Japan: Denai Edo, Kazuto Yuki, Tamiko Yuki, Marina Yuki, Toyo Mano, Nagisa Tsuchiya, Jimi Narita/Kimika Hibi Oslo: Hannah Diesel, Jade Hai Contents: F. Kafka's unfinished work “The Huntsman Grafs ” is composed and directed by Láš Oino of the Oslo Grusomkheten Theater Company. Itoayatsuri puppets Isshitoza, who continue to construct and create new worlds while inheriting tradition, and excellent actors of the Grusomkheten Theater Company perform together as true theater people, removing the frame of actors and puppets. Grafs, a hunter, falls off a cliff in pursuit of his prey and dies. But an old, three-masted sailboat on its way to the land of death loses its direction and continues to circle the sea forever. In other words, it is a strange unfinished story of Kafka wandering the earth in a state of suspended animation, neither death nor life.
- Period of Activity / Project
- October 5, 2023 - November 4
- Venues
- Theatre Tram (Setagaya Ward, Tokyo) Gulsomheten Theatre (Oslo/Norway)
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Profile
[Ito-Ayatsuri Doll Hitoitoza]
The Ito-Ayatsuri Doll Hitoitoza was established by Yuki Kazuto, the third son of Yuki Magosaburo, the 10th head of the Yuki troupe, which has been running since the Edo period. As a troupe that authentically inherits the style of the Edo period, they also perform original new works in collaboration with classical works and contemporary artists. In 2015 he was invited by the University of Bologna in Italy to give symposiums, lectures and performances on the theme of "Tradition and the Avant-Garde". The troupe is also actively engaged in creating plays in collaboration with foreign companies.
In 2022, his eldest son Keita YUKI took over the name of Isshi YUKI and named himself Isshi YUKI the fourth. Yuki Isshi III revived the name of a master puppeteer from the Edo period and changed his name to Edo Dennai.