Smart Community and Mental Health Care
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Hoei
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY29 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 2nd term
Business Overview
It depicts mass hysteria in a compound class (junior high school) in a fictitious remote area of Japan. This is a reprise of a work that was first performed at Atelier Shunpusha (Tokyo) in March 2014 to great acclaim. It was selected for the annual lineup of Komaba Agora Theater in fiscal 2018 and will be performed. Japan is now ahead of the rest of the world in the midst of accelerating progress towards a society with a very low birthrate, an aging population, and a declining population. Local governments are in danger of disappearing, local elementary and junior high schools are increasingly being consolidated, infrastructure is in decline, and communities are becoming more isolated. This film depicts how extremely closed and dwindling local communities affect the collective psychology of junior high school students living there. In addition, he is concerned that the current tendency to follow alternative facts rather than logical grounds is very similar to the initial symptoms of mass hysteria, and he tries to caricature the sickbed of modern society. [Program] Smart Community and Mental Health Care [Performers] Nao OTAKE (Seinendan) Yuichi SAITO (Bungaku-za) Chikako SUZUKI (Seinendan) Kimio TAKEYA (Bungaku-za) Chiaki Eiho (Bungaku-za) Akahane 1000 Hisako (Hoei) Tatsuya KAWAMURA (Hoei) Hyakuji YAMADA (Hoei) Theater troupe Nonoue Lighting: Gosuke KUROTA (Kurozaru)
- Period of Activity / Project
- August 18 (Sat) - 27 (Mon), 2018
- Venues
- Komaba Agora Theater (Meguro Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
Whey is the whey that is separated from milk when making yogurt supernatant or cheese.
This is thrown away in large quantities as industrial waste every day. But it's actually proven to be nutritious.
In this theater company, we aim to create works like whey, which is discarded when something is created.