Yashago Performance "Ants Don't Eat Frisk 2024"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Shamago
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant Category I Single Year Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY2024 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
In 2014 and 2019 the popular "Ants Don't Eat Frisk" was performed again at the theater MOMO in Nakano.
Based on Steinbeck's The Mouse and Man, this film revolves around an older brother with a disability who works at a factory in Tokyo and the younger brother who supports him, until the younger brother Ayumu sends his older brother Tomoyuki to a facility when his girlfriend becomes pregnant.
In addition to regular Yashago performers Osamu Ebine, Kyohei Tsuji, and Yasuhiro Okano, as well as members of the youth troupe such as Minami Inoue and Fumie Midorikawa, actors from the Haiyuza troupe such as Akari Sato and Eto Shiina were newly invited to perform, and the production and direction were brushed up. The film was recorded and distributed.
- Period of Activity / Project
- [Performance] Thursday, November 14, 2024 – 24th (Sun)
[Distribution] Tuesday, December 24, 2024 – Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - Venues
- Theater MOMO (Nakano Ward)
Profile
[Yashago]
He belongs to a theater group and youth group led by Oriza HIRATA, and works as a playwright and director with the aim of faithfully portraying the limbo joys and sorrows in the lives of people in the so-called "middle and lower social classes," centering on the contemporary colloquial drama advocated by Oriza HIRATA.
Because he has an older brother with a mental disability, he often uses "kyodaiko," siblings of sick or disabled children.