Yuta Funaiwa
Funaiwa studied with Koichi Kimura of Chijinkai and with Tatsuo Kaneshita of the stage event project group THE GAZIRA. In 2007 he formed his own group, Sunachi Theatre Company, and since then has organized and directed all of Sunachi’s works. Funaiwa delves deeply into the modernity of classic and modern plays and, using extremely standard production methods, pursues realism in theater. He excels at the insightful reading of plays, and in 2011 he attracted considerable attention with his production of Shakespeare’s “King Richard the Second.” The vivid structure and heat-intense, multi-dimensional production, which extracted the essence of this classical work, were highly praised, and Funaiwa was much talked about as a rare young director who specialized in staging established theatrical works. His most well known productions are “Richard II” (2011), “Disk” (2013) and “3crock” (2014).