Futon's new play performance "XXXX (Name of the evil spirit that threatened the kingdom)"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Futon
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY2024 2nd Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
a kingdom in which the bizarre legend of Macbeth, the general who betrayed the king, is told.
Raised as the daughter of a distinguished family, Margaret defies gender and attitude correction and flees home, ending up in a wilderness mansion. There lived a strange person who called himself Macbeth X.
Meanwhile, King Duncan and his knights, seeking power against the revolutionaries, also find their way to the same pavilion in search of the legendary book of magic.
Based on "Macbeth," Futon sends an authentic play to confront an unstable world while remaining unstable.
Performers: Ai Ozeki *, Koharu Tasaki, Yasumi Nagase *, Yuri Nitta *, Shun Hatakeyama, Yamato Fujiya
Original plan: William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Writer and director: Hiroki Tokuchi *
Sound and lighting: Yokai Sakurauchi *
Assistant director: Yotaro Uemura
Costume: Yasuo Nagase
Art: Yuki Nakatani
Stage director: Akira Kawai
Producers: Shotaro Kawasaki, Yuri Nitta *
Subtitle production and operation: Hiroki Tokuchi *
Subtitle production assistance: Rioha Nishimura
* Futon members
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, March 8, 2025 – 16th (Sun)
- Venues
- At the River of Theatre Babylon (Kita-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
[Futon]
A theatrical company formed mainly by Hiroki Tokuchi in 2011.
In recent works, he has mainly adapted and performed classical plays.
Using a text that mixes the original world view of the play with images of the modern world, he asks the audience about the problems that surround us from the boundary between reality and fiction through the presentience of the play.