TPAC Selection "Tagumi x Yotsubashi Gekidan" Domo Anxious ""
Business Overview
An international co-production in Taiwan and Japan. Participated in Taipei Performing Arts Center Festival/TPAC.
General director Xu Cheol-bin (Yotsuba Gekidan), written and directed by Kato Takuya (Tagumi), and produced by Nitta Yukio.
The work started in 2024, and after 2 research and workshops in Taiwan in 2025, it was rehearsed and performed at the Taipei Performing Arts Center Blue Box in 2026.
From Japan, Kaho, Takenori Kaneko, and Ryutaro Akimoto will perform, along with three other actors, and Taiwanese creators will plan and produce the stage.
From the exchange of ideas between the two countries, I aimed for the expression of "modern" that does not belong to any other country.
< Synopsis >
One day, for her husband Yuya, a VR game programmer, Mari (Kaho) is looking for things, photos, and materials from her elementary school days in Taiwan. Among them you find a strange bottle of rotten fruit you don't recognize. Then ・・・
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, April 18, 2026 - Sunday, April 26
- Venues
- Taipei Performing Arts Center Blue Box
Profile
Wawon Keikaku Godo Kaisha is Takuya Kato's creative foundation. Takuya Kato works as a film director, drama scriptwriter and director in addition to theater.
In 2022, he made his directorial debut with "We Are Adults".
In 2021, Kirei no Kuni (NHK) won the 10 Ichikawa Moriichi Screenplay Award.
In 2022, he won the Outstanding Director Award at the 30 Yomiuri Theater Awards for his performances in "The Welkin" and "Moya Shizuka.".
"The Dodo Falls" won the 67 Kishida Kunio Drama Prize.
Writer and director of the Franco-Japanese co-production "Hotsuru" won the DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT AWARD at the 45 Nantes Three Continents Film Festival.
Selected for Forbes JAPAN 30 UNDER 30 2023.
In 24 a new play was performed in the Off West End of England.
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