Youth group "Adventurous King" and "New Adventurous King" performances in Seoul

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Agora Planning Co., Ltd.

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2015 Phase I Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Single Year Grant Program)

Photo by Tsukasa Aoki

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Business Overview

The Adventurer is a masterpiece play by Hirata Oriza, who has performed in Japan several times. “The New King of Adventures ” will be co-produced with Song Ki-eun, who won the 2013 Dong-A Drama Award for Best Picture, and Korean staff and cast from Language 12 Theater Studio. Both performances have been eagerly awaited in Korea, and this is an event to commemorate the 50 years since the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and Korea. "It is set in Istanbul in 1980 and 2002. In the midst of tumultuous world history, they cannot move east or west. What do they reflect ・・・. Hirata Oriza's only autobiographical play "Adventuou" revisited, and her new work "New Adventuou" depicts a different era. It illuminates the Japanese and the present of Japan and Korea from one point in the world." "King of Adventures" Writer/Director: Oriza Hirata, Starring: Kenichi Akiyama Satoshi Kobayashi Hiroshi Ohta Chikako Suzuki Nao Otake Madoka Murai Tatsuya Kawamura Makoto Sato Tadashi Kaizu Yuko Kibiki Taichi Ishimatsu Tsuyoshi Ito Kanan Kikuchi Maki Tomita Takakuni Moriyama Shigeru Sato Lee Sojin Masahiko Daita Co-writer/Director: Oriza Hirata Son Ki-eun Starring: Hiroshi Ohta Nao Otake Madoka Murai Tatsuya Kawamura Makoto Yuko Kibiki Takakuni Moriyama Briary Long Sato Shigeru Jeon Jong-ha Son Myeong-gyun Ma Du-yeon Baek Jong-sun Jeon Suji Park Min-ji Kang Hee-jae

implementation period

Friday, July 10, 2015 - 26th (Sun)

Place of implementation

Dusan Art Center (Seoul)

Profile

[Seinendan]
Seinendan was formed in 1983 by Oriza Hirata. The quiet and precise stage production using unique staging methods has won high praise both in Japan and abroad. In 2007, "Wakare no Uta" (Separation Song), which he co-produced with the National Theater Center of France, became a long-running hit in France, and since then he has had many co-productions with French directors. Since 2008, he has collaborated with The University of Osaka to produce plays in which humans and robots perform together. In 2012, the Android version of "The Three Sisters" and in 2014, the Android version of "Transfiguration" won high acclaim, and he has performed in Japan and overseas, attracting strong attention from various fields as a fusion of science and art and cutting-edge knowledge from different fields.