The third performance commemorating the 385 year anniversary of the launch of the Yukiza, "Transfiguration"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Edo Itoayatsuri Ningyo Yukiza
- subsidy category
- Regional Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 3 (2021) Tokyo Area Arts and Culture Grant (Third Application)
Business Overview
Kafka's masterpiece "Transfiguration" will be performed as the third performance commemorating the 385 year anniversary of the founding of the Yuki Theater. Keita Shirai, an up-and-coming director of Onsen Dragon, reveals the nature of human beings by depicting their thoughts and internal changes when faced with unimaginable circumstances, and expresses the absurd world of Kafka's works in synergy with the puppet art and puppeteers of young artist Natsuko Tanihara. Actors: Magosaburo Yuki XIII, Funayu Ryogawa III, Ikuko Yuki, Aki Yumoto, Yasuaki Onuki, Emi Oura, Tsugumi Nakamura Author: Franz Kafka Staff Writer/Director: Keita Shirai Doll Art: Natsuko Tanihara Stage Art: Aya Matsumura Lighting: Kenta Okuda Sound: Shuichi Sakuma Stage Director: Norio Aoki
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, March 26, 2022 - 30th (Wed)
- Venues
- Geki 'small theater (Setagaya Ward, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[Edo Itoayatsuri Ningyo Yuki Za]
During the Edo period when Japanese culture flourished, the first Magosaburo Yuki founded the company in Nihonbashi in Kanei 12 (1635), and it became a company authorized by the shogunate. Magosaburo YUKI the 13th currently serves as the leader. Under the slogan of "two wheels of classics and new works," he has been deepening the classics and traditions, while also projecting the spirit of social satire and avant-garde on the stage in contemporary theater. It has performed not only in Japan but also in dozens of countries around the world, and is the only Itoayatsuri puppet theater company in Japan that has been designated as an intangible cultural property of the nation and Tokyo.