Mon restaurant idéal (2023)
Mon restaurant idéal (2023)
Mon restaurant idéal (2023)
The setting is Christmas time, in a small French restaurant. “Mon restaurant ideal” is an entertainment-focused production for adults that binds together the lives of each restaurant visitor in short stories and features stylish scenes with live jazz which work like a film score. The restaurant owner is Takahashi, a popular character from “A la carte,” a long-running play staged for 26 years from 1989 at the Aoyama round theater (located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo and which closed in 2015). Since 2018 the performance venue has been a real restaurant where the audience can enjoy a meal. In 2023, the 35th anniversary of “A la carte,” the production returned to a theater setting, offering a blend of the enjoyment of a play with music, food, and drama developed over the years.
As well as Atsuko Takaizumi, Koyo Yamamoto, Yuichiro Nakayama, and Yasuyuki Unezawa, making guest appearances on a “daily special” basis were Shunputei Shota, Eisuke Sasai, Onoe Kikunojo, and Yukai Diamond.
Atsuko Takaizumi conceived, wrote, directed, and starred in the work, with Toshihiro Nakanishi as music director.
【The theatrical company YU-KIKAI OFFICE】
The theatrical company YU-KIKAI OFFICE is a theater and music planning and production office led by Atsuko Takaizumi. Takaizumi belonged to the Waseda university theatre club while a student at Waseda University, forming the theater company Yukikai-Zenjidotheatre in 1983 with Akira Shirai and Koichi Yoshizawa, friends from her Waseda days.
A lead actor in stage plays who also has a hand in scriptwriting, she attracts attention as a performer who has a transformative way of playing a range of characters from young boys to old people. After the company disbanded in 2003, her appearance in “Elephant Vanishes,” a stage adaptation by London-based director Simon McBurney of a short story collection by Haruki Murakami, was highly acclaimed in its London, Paris and New York runs. Takaizumi is working on the “Profound fable” trilogy themed around time, memory and family, commissioning stage design from illustrator Akira Uno. In addition, many of her theatrical works incorporate jazz, and she regularly holds jazz live performances to actively appeal to the music world as well.
The theatrical company YU-KIKAI OFFICE
Louis Chatelet #704, 2-2-17, Jiyugaoka, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
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E-mail: office@yu-kikai.net
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