"Your Room That No One Knows" North American Tour

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Niwa Gekidan Penino

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2013 Phase I Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Single Year Grant Program)

Photo by Shinsuke Sugino

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Business Overview

The North American tour of "Nobody Knows Your Room" premiered in February 2012 at the atelier "Hakobune" which was renovated from an old apartment in Shibuya, had additional performances in April and July of the same year, and was invited to Osaka in May of the same year, and to Helsinki Theatre Festival in Finland and Lucerne in Switzerland in August. This will be the first American tour to introduce the activities of Penino Garden Theater.

implementation period

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 – 12 (Sun) New York, USA Thursday, January 16 – 18 (Sat) Minneapolis, USA Thursday, January 23 – 26 (Sun) Columbus, USA Thursday, January 30 – Saturday, February 1 Philadelphia, USA Thursday, February 6 – 9 (Sun) Seattle, USA

Place of implementation

Japan Society (New York) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus) Philadelphia Live Arts (Philadelphia) On the Boards (Seattle)

Profile

"Niwa Gekidan Penino"
Formed in 2000 with TANINO CROW at the center. First performed in 2008 by the theater troupe "Hakobune," Irritating Adult's Picture Book has been performed at HAU in Berlin, Theater spektakl in Switzerland, Norderzone in the Netherlands, Nextfestival in Belgium, and Münster in Germany. Nobody Knows Your Room was performed in Osaka, Helsinki, and Lucerne, Switzerland. In December 2012, "Little Bri Milo's Big Adventure," a joint project of Anstitue Francais Tokyo, Niwa Gekidan Penino and Aurusupotto, showed a new side of Tanino Crow and was highly praised.