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文化庁This performance is sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (subsidies for the promotion of culture and arts), and by Japan Arts Council (Culture and Arts Promotion)
The performance for the 70th Anniversary of the Bungakuza Atelier Theater

Bungakuza Atelier Showcase in March
KISHIDA Kunio Festival

SAIGETSU (elapsed time)/
DOIUN SOUWA (Episode of the recruitment)

        

Written by:KISHIDA Kunio
Directed by:NISHIMOTO Yuka(SAIGETSU)
TOKORO Kanade(DOUIN SOUWA)

2020.3.17.Tue-29.Sun
Shinanomachi BUNGAKUZA Atelier

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The Bungakuza Atelier Theater marks the 70th anniversary in 2020.
The 70th anniversary special showcase will start with the double-bill performances of Kunio Kishida’s plays, “SAIGETSU” and “DOUIN SOUWA”.
Kishida wrote these works 93 years ago and 85 years ago respectively when he was then in his 30’s and 40’s.
Yuka Nishimoto and Kanade Tokoro who direct these two works this time are both in the same generation by chance.
Two directors who put a controversial play, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” and an eccentric play, “TOTON-TOTON” will bring the works of Kishida, the founder of the BUNGAKUZA Theater Company back in modern times.


Kunio Kishida

1890: Born in Yotsuya as the eldest son of a military officer.
Despite holding an office as a lieutenant through the Military Academy, he entered the Tokyo Imperial University at the age 28 as he couldn’t abandon his dream for literature.
1919: Went to France to learn drama mainly in the THEATRE du VIEUX-COLOMBIER.
1937: Co-founded the BUNGAKUZA Theater Company with Mantaro Kubota and Toyoo Iwata (Bunroku Shishi).
1950: Formed “Kumo no Kai” together with Yukio Mishima, Tsuneari Fukuda and others.
1954: Succumbed in the middle of the rehearsal of the play “The Low Depth”, and passed away the following day.


  NISHIMOTO Yuka

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.

  TOKORO Kanade

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).


SAIGETSU

NAKAMURA
Akio

KAMINO
Takashi

KOSHIZUKA
Manabu

NAGOSHI
Shiho

YOSHINO
Misa

MAESHIGASHI
Minako

OTOMICHI
Airi

ISODA
Mie

DOIUN SOUWA

SAITO
Yuichi

NISHIOKA
Nobito

NISHIMURA
Tomohiro

SUZUKI
Akiko

ITO
Anna

MATSUMOTO
Yuka

 

□Staff
Stage setting and arts:SHIMANE Chikako, ISHII Tsuyoshi Lighting:SAKAGUCHI Miwa
Sound effects:MARUTA Yuya Costumes:MIYAMOTO Nobuko Stage Management:OKANO Hiroyuki
Production Management:TANAKA Yuichiro, TOMOTANI Tatsushi, SAISHU Shimako
Flyer and poster Design:FUJIO Kantaro

 

 

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※30 minutes before the opening theater

★=Post-performance talk

Post-performance talk① 3.19.Sat.19:00
 NISHIMOTO Yuka(Direction)×TOKORO Kanade(Direction)

Post-performance talk② 3.25.Wed.19:00
 KUROSAWA Seri(Director)×UYAMA Hitoshi(Director)

◎=After the show, "Read and Talk Session for Kunio Kishida" will be presented as the event for the 70th Anniversary of the Bungakuza Atelier Theater.

** Admission fees and seat reservations are needed for the event.


※Advance ticket sales starts on , February 17th, 2020
(all seats are reserved, prices include tax)
◎Adult 4,600yen
◎Youth discount 2,700yen (UNDER 25 years old)※1
◎Admission at the door 4,800yen※2
  ※1 Youth discount tickets require age-verification ID at the entrance.
    ※2 Tickets can be purchased on the door of the performance. Please call [03-3353-3566] from 3 hours before the show starts.


□Tickets

◎BUNGAKUZA Box Office Direct phone number: 0120-481034   (10:00~17:30/ Monday to Saturday) ※Japanese only
Ticket Pia 0570-02-9999 (P-code 496-861)
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5 min. walk from JR Soubu line Shinanomachi Stn.
9 min. walk from Tokyo metro Marunouchi line Yotsuya3cyoume Stn.


  

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