New "Hakobune" Project

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Godo Kaisha Arsch/Niwa Gekidan Penino

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

long-term

2014 Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Long-term Grant Program)

"A box in a big trunk" (2013) Photo by Aki Tanaka

"A box in a big trunk" (2013) Photo by Aki Tanaka

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Business Overview

Until 2013, Niwa Gekidan Penino owned 'Hakobune', a room in an old condominium in Shibuya as their studio, where they performed their representative works such as' Little Limbo's Restaurant ',' Irritating Adult's Picture Book 'and' Nobody Knows Your Room '. When this condominium was to be demolished due to aging, the stage set used in 'A Box in a Big Trunk' was created as a new 'Hakobune.'. This stage set consists of four kinds of small boxes arranged in a square on a rotating tray, and the scene develops as it rotates during the performance. In the future, they plan to use the Bon stage as a symbol of the troupe and hold more performances. The biggest feature of this bon stage is that you can move and set up a space called "hakobune" anywhere. Like the red tent of the Karagumi, for example, they want the stage to look like a big mechanical box and be recognized as "Penino, a garden theater group." Based on this space, we would like to send out the original and detailed world view of Niwa Gekidan Penino not only in Japan but also overseas.

implementation period

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 -13 (Thu) Cool/Switzerland Wednesday, November 19, 2014 -21 (Fri) Basel/Switzerland March 26, 2015 Krefeld/Germany Scheduled for August 2015 Scheduled for Autumn 2016

Place of implementation

Theater Chur/Kaserne Basel/Tokyo, Switzerland

Profile

【 Tanino Crowe 】
Born in 1976 in Toyama Prefecture. He is the director of Penino, a garden theater company, and a theatrical playwright and director. Senior Fellow, Saison Cultural Foundation. In 2000, he started a garden theater company, Penino, while he was in the medical school. Since then, he has written and directed all films. He was shortlisted for the Kishida Kunio Drama Prize for 2 consecutive years (2007 and 2008). Invited to many theater festivals in Japan and overseas.