10/13-25 Aoyama
Round Theatre《The 14th Aoyama Engeki (Theatre) Festival》
●Theater
YU◎KIKAI/ZENJIDO-THEATER:
"melancholy baby"
10/13-25 Aoyama
Round Theatre
《The 14th Aoyama Engeki (Theatre) Festival》
In a small jazz club in a lost corner of a big
city. A young aspiring writer opens up the doors to the clubs patrons
melancholic pasts. The automata master, Muttoni allows you to enter
into a fantastical world of nostalgia and melancholy.
By Atsuko Takaizumi, directed by Akira Shirai. With Michitaka
Tsutsui, Atsuko Takaizumi, Kiichi Fukui, Akira Shirai and the
automata master MOTTONI.
photo by Chieko Nozumi
Ku Na'uka Theatre
Company: "Medea"
11/1-5 Aoyama Round Theatre
《The 14th Aoyama Engeki (Theatre) Festival》
Premiered last fall and acclaimed as "Undoubtfully
the best of Ku Na'uka," their production of the Greek play returns to
Tokyo's audience. The fire of revenge within Medea will burn the eyes
of the audience with its beauty.
By Euripides, directed by Satoshi Miyagi. With Micari, Kazunori Abe
and Makiko Kawai.
photo by Tatsuro Rokuto
Nitosha + Setagaya Public
Theatre present:
"Hagike-no San-shimai (The
Hagi Sisters) "
11/4-19 Theatre
Tram
The three sisters of the
Hagi Family live in a small city, the oldest, an assistant professor
at a university, the second a housewife, and the third, single and
mentally dependent on her parents. These three different women offer
us through stories their differing perspectives regarding their
relationships with their lovers.
●Written and directed by Ai Nagai. With Kimiko Yo, Asako Minamitani
and Akira Ohtaka.
photo by Lin Keisen
Hitsujidan × Aoyama Round
Theatre Produce:
"Mizuirazu-no Hoshi" (The
Intimate Planet)
11/7-8 Aoyama
Round Theatre
《The 14th Aoyama Engeki (Theatre) Festival》
Formed by the former members of the Jiku Gekijo
which disbanded in 1997, Hitsujidan features Yasuhiro Kanegae and
Junko Uchida in Masataka Matsuda's new play, directed by Takeshi
Mizunuma (MONO). When the wife suddenly disappears, the following
days see this married couple go through a series of bizarre and
strange incidents.
photo by Kenichiro Matsumoto
Ontological-Hysteric Theater
(from USA):
"Bad Boy Nietzsche!"
11/16-19 Park
Tower Hall
Written, directed, designed, and composed by
Richard Foreman, the renaissance man of the avent-garde American
theater who has received nine Obie Awards. He visits Japan for the
first time with his latest work which is, as the New York Times puts
it, an "impeccably constructed philosophical vaudeville".
With Gary Wilmes, Juliana Francis, Kevin
Hurley and Sara Louise Lilley.
photo by Paula Court
TheaterCompany RINKO-GUN + The
Japan Foundation:
" Nan-yo Kujira
Butai (Whalers in the South Seas)"
11/23-12/11 The
Suzunari
This play readdresses the history of the 20th
Century through its depiction of the life of wandering whalers around
the islands of Southeastern Asia where, once scarred by the invasion
of Japan's Imperial Army, traditional whaling is still practiced
today. Based on research in Indonesia, the company's director Yoji
Sakate's cast brings together actors from Indonesia , the Philippines
and the United States.
Written and directed by Yoji Sakate. With Djoko Bibit Santoso
(Indonesia), Nor Domingo (Philippines), Kameron Steele(U.S.A.),
Takahiro Onishi and Gentaro Shimofusa (Japan).
photo by Taku Ohara
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