What we do

“Shihai” -Paperback-" Project to form a new platform for the discourse of performing arts

  • Organization : Theatre Critic Magazine & Online Platform “Shihai - Paperback-"
  • Section : Project for improvements in the creative environment
  • Type of Grant Program : Single
  • Art Forms : Theater

Outline

In this project, they established a new online platform to provide a continuous forum for discourse on the performing arts, which contributes to the creation of a sustainable creative environment. The most distinctive feature of this project is that artists/works and writers are selected and matched based on curation led by editor-in-chief Kenta Yamazaki, and the artists’ own words and critiques from outside are published before and after each performance in the same platform.
The long-term vision of the project was to function as an archive that would serve as a reference point for the audience and readers to think about the society, based on the enhanced thinking and practice of all artists.
In addition, they featured some writers and critics of the next generation, including Ryo Sekine, Mei Shirao, Manabu Fujimoto, and Mayu Yamaguchi.

Profile

Theatre Critic Magazine & Online Platform “Shihai – Paperback-“
In 2017 Kenta Yamazaki, a drama critic, launched this project on his own and published theatre critic magazine “Shihai -Paperback-” in that and the next year. This magazine is very unique and new because it features three or four staged performances in one book and publishes both the play and two reviews of each.
In November 2023, “Shihai -Paperback-” project resumed with the first magazine in the last five years and a new online platform “Shihai WEB”. In this website, they featured 11 performances by June 2024 with an artist interview and two reviews of each staged performance.

Contact

Satoshi Okawa
Administration
Theatre Critic Magazine & Online Platform “Shihai – Paperback-”
shihai2nd@gmail.com

Venues

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