Noontime George
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Gekidan Kodomo Ojin
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY27 Term I Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program]
Business Overview
In this work, "Noonday George," I try to backlight society itself by depicting people who fall through the human knot. In the film, George, a part-time worker who calls himself a cowboy, is introduced to people called the "bottom of society," including unstable part-time workers and married women who work at the sex shop he frequents. Their lives may be at the bottom of society, but they are also part of society. In this play, we are trying to present a modern version of Gorky's "rock bottom." However, unlike the Russian Empire, modern Japan has little fear of death. Rather, there is a fear of "living somehow." Through this work, he wants to present the horror of today to the audience and find out the bottom line that society is trying to hide. The aim is to present this work as a kind of antithesis to the world where only beautiful stories dominate, and to redraw the outline of our society. Writer/Director: Takashi Masuyama Art Design: Takashi Masuyama Performers: Kanji Masuyama, Kika Kiki, Toru Kageyama, Natsuki Tsunetsuki, Mineyuki, Ryuya Yamanishi, Masuyama U☆G, Takashi Masuyama (Kodomo no Sorito), Yoshinori Kobayashi (Chrome Molybdenum), Taketo Kubota (SNATCH), Carlos Yoshida, Narumi Iwatsubo, Eriko Shindo (Theater Company Hachimanyama Hoshigari Sisters)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Wednesday, August 19, 2015 to 25th (Tue)
- Venues
- Sun Mall Studio (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
Formed in 2005 by the brothers Takashi and Kanji MASUYAMA. 2015 is the 10 year anniversary of the formation, and 3 new films will be released.
The term "It's like a child but a giant, it's like a giant but a child" is an abbreviation of the term. A freestyle theater group that discovers "stories" buried in the world by making full use of several methodologies such as musical theater and conversation theater. Based on the Furu-nagaya (tenement house) in the back of the alley, it weaves wildly spreading visionary images freely into the stage space, using dreams and fears as motifs while following the dynamism of theater. In addition, unlike theater companies that are rooted in the so-called theater field, they are unscrupulously eating up the possibilities of theater through borderless activities in which they perform and collaborate not only in theaters but also in cafes, galleries and live houses. Representative work "Bakumatsu Suplex"