©️Pierre Grosbois
©️Pierre Grosbois
©️Pierre Grosbois
ZEITAKU BINBOU “I’m Trying to Understand You, But…”
Written and directed by Yuri Yamada
Performed by: Minami Ohba, Masayuki Yamamoto, Mayu Sakuma, Konomi Otake, Misaki Yatabe
As a young artist from Tokyo, Yuri Yamada gave her first European performance as part of the official program of the historic international performing arts celebration, Festival d’Automne à Paris. Can such different creatures as men and women understand each other? Yamada’s work uses drama as a means of questioning gender roles, shaking up the audience’s preconceived notions, and highlighting what the male and female genders give and take away from life in modern society.
ZEITAKU BINBOU
Founded in 2012 by Artistic Director Yamada Yuri (playwright, director, and actor). Performances by ZEITAKU BINBOU seamlessly move back and forth across the borders between stage and audience, madness and sanity, and our reality and other worlds. They employ a light touch and a pop sensibility to draw attention to social issues in modern Japan. Since 2014 they have been developing the “uchi-project*,” creating, rehearsing and performing shows inside private homes (“Uchi” means home in Japanese). Major works include “Fiction City” (2017) and “Mixture” (2019) that were nominated for the Kunio Kishida Playwright Award, “Everyone Fears the Night”(premier in 2015, Chinese version premier in 2018) that toured across mainland China.
Asami Hori
Producer
ZEITAKU BINBOU
zeitaku.binbou@gmail.com
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France
