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Madama Butterfly

  • Organization : General Incorporated Association Q
  • Section : International project
  • Type of Grant Program : Single
  • Art Forms : Theater

Outline

A co-production with Theater Neumarkt in Switzerland, this project comprised an original performance based on the opera “Madama Butterfly.”

Direction and Text:Satoko Ichihara
Dramaturgy:Tine Milz
Actor:Kyoko Takenaka,Yan Balistoy, Sascha Ö. Soydan
Scenography and Costume: Stefan Britze
Video:Juan Ferrari
Text translation:Aya Ogawa
Interpriter:Kanoko Tamura
Producer:Noël Stéphane
Company manager(Q):Makiko Yamazato

Profile

Q/Satoko Ichihara
Satoko Ichihara has led the theater company Q since 2011. She writes and directs plays that deal with human behavior, the physiology of the body, and the unease surrounding these themes, using her unique sense of language and physical sensitivity. 2011, Receives the Aichi Arts Foundation Drama Award with the play “Insects”. 2017, Nominated for finalist of 61st Kishida Kunio Playwriting Prize for “Favonia’s Fruitless Fable”. 2020, Receives the 64st Kishida Kunio Playwriting Prize for “The Bacchae−Holstein Milk Cows”.

Venues

Theater Neumarkt, Zurich, Switzerland
Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland