Program: Hunter Graphus
Author: Franz Kafka, Screenplay/Direction: Lars Oyno, Music: Inaba Akinori, Stage art: Nono Soichi, Stage manager: Morisita Norihiko, Stage lighting: Saito Sigeo, Sounds：Koda Kazuma, Image: Miyata Mariko, Costume: Iwao Kaishi

Performers
Dolls: Edo Dennnai, Youki Isshi, Youki Tamiko, Youki Marina, Mano Toyo, Tuchiya Nagisa, Narita Romi, Hibiki Mika
Actor：Hanne Diesernd, Gisle Hass

Details
A staging of Franz Kafka’s unfinished work “Hunter Graphus,” conceived and directed by Lars Oyno of the Gulsomheten Theater Company in Oslo. The Itoayatsuri Ningyo marionette troupe ISSHIZA, which is continually building and creating new worlds while passing down the marionette tradition, and the gifted actors of the Glusomheten Theater Company do away with the restrictive actor-and-puppet framework to perform together as true artists of the stage.
Hunter Graphus falls off a cliff and dies while chasing his quarry. But the old three-masted “death ship” taking him to the land of the dead loses its course, and continues to circle the seas for eternity.
This is Kafka’s curious unfinished tale about being neither dead nor alive, never being reborn, and wandering the earth in a state of suspended animation.