This theatrical performance with a clothing motif themed around accelerationism and a social media-driven world will be revived within the year on the back of the positive reception to its premiere. The lives of items of clothing which are consumed (“die”) with the seasonal swapping of clothes and changing of sartorial trends are intertwined with the portrayal of people who are at the mercy of the vicissitudes of tools and values. The production features “copy paper with clothing names written on it,” symbolizing charming but flatly delineated characters, their symbol characteristics, and life and death. The copy paper is scattered, torn, or thrown away, expressing the comfort of a social-media-driven society as well as its harshness – two sides of the same coin – and raising doubts about “accelerating to keep adapting.”

Written and directed by: Kengo Kodama

Performed by
Tomoka Ishihara
Mana Kawabata
Farell Shawn Kanda
Yuuki Koga
Ryota Nakamura
Yamato Fujiie
Yoshikuni Matsuzaki
Haruno Yamada

Production staff
Choreography: Farell Shawn Kanda
Understudies: Takahiro Goseki, Kenichi Nagai
Stage manager: Tomoya Kubota
Lighting: Keiichi Matsuda
Sound: Kaito Onigiri
Director’s assistants: Eri Tanihira, Taketo Hironaka
Publicity art: Haruno Kotomori
Illustrations/music: Kikai Sakata
Operations on the day: Kazane Miyano
Production cooperation: Junko Katou
Production/dramaturg: Naoya Tsukuda