Garden Theater Company Penino "Fort of Smile" Performance in France
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Arsch LLC
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 3(2021) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
In 2018, he performed 'Fort of Smile' which he stayed and produced at Kinosaki International Art Center in 3 cities of Roubaix, Genevilliers and Orleans in France. A small fishing port town facing the Sea of Japan. A family moves into an apartment where fishermen live. The fishermen get along like brothers and spend their days laughing. A family with a mother with dementia. Two completely different rooms, two different times. However, they gradually influence each other and their casual daily life changes. I just want to laugh and live. Writer/Director: TANINO CLOUR Performers: Susumu Ogata, Masato Nomura, FO Pereira Koichiro, etc. Staff Art, Takuya Kamiike Lighting, Masayuki Abe Sound, Koji Shiina, etc.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, November 12, 2021 - Saturday, November 13
Saturday, November 20, 2021 - Sunday, November 28
Friday, December 3, 2021 - Saturday, December 4 - Venues
- ROUBAIX–LA CONDITION PUBLIQUE (Roubaix/France) T2G (Genevilliers/France) ORLEANS NATIONAL THEATRE CENTER (Orléans/France)
Profile
[Niwa Gekidan Penino (Arsch LLC)]
In January 2000, "Niwa Gekidan Penino" was formed by volunteers from Showa University's drama club, led by TANINO CLOUR. The theater space "Hakobune," which is a remodeled apartment building, and the outdoor performances are used as well as the elaborate stage art. We have been invited to many major international performing arts festivals in Japan, including "Festival/Tokyo 2009 Autumn," "Fujinokuni Sekai Theater Festival," and "KYOTO EXPERIMENT." "Frustrating Adult Picture Book" has been performed in Berlin (Germany) in 2009, Zurich (Switzerland) and Gronigen (Netherlands) in 10, and was nominated for the ZKB Patronage Prize 2010, the renowned Swiss theatre award. Also, they toured 5 cities in America with "Your room that nobody knows" and received good reviews (2014). In 2015, "A Box in a Big Trunk" was invited to the Vienna Art Week and the World Theatre Festival and received a five-star rating in the local Vienna newspaper. In 2016, she toured 4 countries in Europe with 'Jigokudani Onsen Mumyo no Yado' and was highly praised. In 2018, as an official project of Japonismes 2018, 'The Dark Master' and 'Jigokudani Onsen Mumyo no Yado' were performed consecutively at Genevilliers in France and became a topic of conversation.