Theater troupe Kodomo's play performance "Beiden 100 W. Road 100Mile (Virgin)"

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Gekidan Kodomo Ojin

subsidy category

Creation Grant

Grant Type

single year

FY26 Term I Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program]

"Burning Skin" (2012) Photo by Yamato Hashimoto

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Business Overview

At the invitation of the theater festival "AURUSUPOTO Shakespeare Festival 2014" hosted by the Toshima Ward Performing Arts Exchange Center "AURUSUPOTO," we performed an original play written by Takashi Masuyama, a representative of the theater company Kodai Ojin, based on "Macbeth," one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. The film focuses on two princes who escape to another country after Macbeth kills their father. I think that flight or escape from one's homeland is one of the very current themes, people who were evacuated from their hometown due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and people who had to abandon the land where they were born due to the nuclear accident in Fukushima. Turning to the world, civil wars and wars force people to flee. There are too many examples. In this work, the two princes are depicted allegorically, exposing the destruction and rebirth that exist behind the "escape" and examining the "works" of humanity.

implementation period

Friday, October 10, 2014 - 13 (Mon/Holiday)

Place of implementation

AURUSUPOTO (Toshima Ward Performing Arts Exchange Center) (Toshima Ward, Tokyo)

Profile

[Theater Company Kodomo Ojin]
Formed in Osaka in 2005 by brothers Takashi Masuyama and Kanji. A freestyle theater group that uses various methodologies to discover "stories" buried in the world. To date, he has performed a series of performances for 20 people in a tenement house built more than 100 years ago, and a series of musical plays in which he dances with live music by many musicians. In addition, he has been actively exploring the possibilities of theater, including three tours of Europe with works in English and French, and touring the city with audiences.