KPR/Kaimaku Pennant Race
Formed in August 2006, this theater company held its first performance in September of that year. It subsequently gave five more performancesin Tokyo between March 2007 and March 2009. KPR’s seventh performance was ROMEO and TOILET, performed in New York City in August, 2009. The production made a triumphal return to Japan in December the same year for the troupe’s eighth stage appearance. March 2010 marked the company’s ninth performance. In November 2011, KPR gave its first regional performance in Sapporo (it’s 10th performance). February 2011 saw its 11th performance, Anton and Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard. In August 2011 KPR took part in the 2nd Shitamachi Theater Festival (marking its 12th performance), and the following month hit the stage in Sapporo for its 13th show. In March 2012 the troupe won two prizes, the Award for Excellency and the Audience Award, at the Young Directors Contest 2011, held by the Japan Directors Association. In March 2012 the troupe is scheduled to perform the final instalment of Anton and Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, its 14th performance, and in July the same year it plans to perform at the Kijimuna Festa 2012.