Midnight Rainbow
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Gekidan Kodomo Ojin
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY30 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 1st term
Business Overview
This performance is a reprise of a play that was performed in Tokyo and Osaka in 2016. At the time of its release, many audience members called it "the best of the theater company," and it received a great response. Two years later, backed up by the improved skills of the troupe members, the troupe held its first four-city tour of Japan, starting with a performance in Tokyo and continuing on to Osaka, Sendai and Fukuoka. This work is a story written in the Kansai dialect and set in Kansai, where the troupe is from. Through an ensemble drama that incorporates the daily lives of people living in the countryside and the protagonist's yearning for Tokyo, this work shares an opportunity to think about "Tokyo and the countryside" with many people from the countryside living in Tokyo and local audiences on tour. It is also a performance that asks modern Japan to "live by art" in a society that calls for "work style reform." Writer, Director, Art: Takashi Masuyama Music: Tonchi Performers: Kanji Masuyama, Kiki Hanaka, Toru Kageyama, Natsuki Tsunetsuki, Mineyuki, Ryuya Yamanishi, Masuyama U☆G, Yohiro Furuno, Urajinu, Takashi Masuyama (That's all, Gekidan Kodomo Ojin)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Sunday, July 1, 2018 -8 (Sun)
- Venues
- Shimokitazawa Ekimae Theater (Setagaya Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
[Theater Company Kodomo Ojin]
Formed in Osaka in 2005 by the brothers Takashi and Kanji Masuyama. In 2014, the theater group moved to Tokyo.
An ippon theater company that combines Kansai style tension with a substantial story. The absurdities and frustrations of human beings are elaborated in a surreal and fantastic setting, and baked with black laughter.
Not only in theaters, but also in cafes, galleries, live houses, etc., they perform and perform together, and through borderless activities, they unscrupulously eat up the possibilities of theater.