Don’t you think everyone holds in his/her memory some scenes with indescribable feelings? Kunio Kishida carefully observes and scoops up these feelings with finely interwoven words. He left the words “I write a play not to speak about ‘a thing’ but speak about ‘something’ to write a play.” The work about which he noted “this becomes my last work in which ‘I speak about something to write a drama’” is this very play “SAIGETSU”. Kunio Kishida tried various experiments consciously in creation from the beginning of his career. I hope to challenge this work which should be one of his milestones with as much experimental spirit as he had.

Profile:She graduated from the department of theater, Nihon University College of Art.In 2006, she entered the BUNGAKUZA Theater Institution (the 46th Class), and got promoted to a formal member of the BUNGAKUZA Theater Company in 2012. While participating in the company’s performances as a backstage staff, she also worked in and outside the company as an assistant to the directors such as Hitoshi Uyama and Yuko Matsumoto. In recent years, she has directed one of the German Contemporary Drama Reading Series,“Und jetzt: die Welt!”(2017), the graduation performance of the BUNGAKUZA Theater Institution, “Utsukushikimono no Densetsu , The Legend of the Beauties”(2018), and one of the world dramas, “Bajarse al moro”, the self-produced performance by the BUNGAKUZA compeers.”Joe Egg” was her first work she directed for the BUNGAKUZA Theater Company (Atelier Showcase) in December, 2018.She went to Germany and studied at the Maxim Gorky Theater for one year since 2019.

Set in Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 1904, six months after the Russo-Japanese War in Tokyo, Japan, "Douin Souwa" is the story about a stableman who takes care of the war horse of the major going off to war soon and his wife. The story is about the people who got involved in the madness known as war. The characters display a way of thinking that is probably normal for a time when wars were repeated, but Kazuyo, the stableman's wife, disagrees with the others. Whether she is mad or those characters around her are crazy… What will appear in the extreme madness…? It has an earth-shattering ending unique to a short story. I see its voltage is the highest of all the Kishida's plays, but it leaves us a bad aftertaste. I wonder how the audience of 2020 will catch and feel that bad aftertaste.

Profile: Tokoro was born in Tokyo in 1977. He graduated from the Department of Literature, Tamagawa University. He entered the BUNGAKUZA Theater Institution (the 43rd Class), and got promoted to a formal member of the BUNGAKUZA Theater Company in 2008. While participating in the company’s performances as a backstage staff, he served as an assistant to the directors such as Hironobu Nishikawa, Hitoshi Uyama and Yoshisada Sakaguchi. He made his debut as a director for the BUNGAKUZA Atelier Showcase with “The Story of AOBEKA, a Blue Boat” in May, 2017. His recent works include the Kid’s Theater Series “The Fiend with Twenty faces” (2017), the graduation performance of the BUNGAKUZA Theater Institution, “Is No One Alive?”(2018), The Kid’s Theater Series “Youkai Hakase, Dr. Specter”(2018), and “TOTON-TOTON” for the BUNGAKUZA Theater Company Atelier Showcase(2019).