Shinsaku-Noh, 'Our Lady of Nagasaki' and 'Jacob's Well'
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Tessenkai
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 3(2021) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
Performances include a new Noh play "Our Lady of Nagasaki" which was first performed in 2005, and a new Noh play "Jacob's Well" which was an international co-production of Japan and Austria and had its world premiere in 2019 in 3 cities in Europe. It depicts the miseries of war, conflicts between different ethnic groups, and the spirit of peace and tolerance, while exploring the potential of Noh as a modern performing art. < Program > Shinsaku-Noh "Nagasaki no Seibo," "Jacob's Well" < Performers > Kanji Shimizu, Kenkichi Tonoda, Hiroshi Ohicata, Yushi Ogasawara, Hiroaki Ogasawara, Myoho, Hiroyuki Matsuda, Seiichi Iida, Nobuyuki Shirasaka, Soemon Konparu, Mutsumi Hatano, Tetsunojo Kanze, etc. < Staff > Sachiko Oda, Shin Sato, Yusuke Yokohara, Naoto Iina, Hagoromo Okamoto, Tatsuhiko Ito, etc.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Wednesday, August 4, 2021 -8 (Sun)
- Venues
- Za Koenji 1 (Suginami-ku, Tokyo) * Information such as the project outline is provided by organizations and individuals that provide support.
Profile
[Public Interest Incorporated Association Tessenkai]
It was established in 1918 centering on the Tetsunojo KANZE family which became a branch family when Sakon KANZE, the 15 head of the Kanze school of Nohgaku in the late Edo period. In recent years, Hisao KANZE, the eldest son of Tetsunojo KANZE, the seventh, reviewed Noh widely from the viewpoint of stage art, and realized a dense stage by valuing every role, and gained a high reputation. Even after the death of Hisao, based on his insistence, he continued his contemporary performance activities, such as revising his existing works in terms of staging, with the late Tetsunojo the Eighth and his successor Tetsunojo the Ninth at the center.