Did you know that the story of the white hare of Inaba may also be found in the myths of an indigenous community in North America? It is a majestic and festive musical play that interprets a hypothesis advocated by Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the greatest philosophers, anthropologists, and ethnologists of the 20th Century, with a theatrical imagination.
　
Conception and direction: MIYAGI Satoshi
Text: collective writing of KUBOTA Azumi and the troops
Music: TANAKAWA Hiroko
Space design: KIZ Junpei
Lighting design: OSAKO Koji
Costume&Mask design: TAKAHASHI Kayo
Props design: FUKASAWA Eri
Sound design: HARADA Shinobu
Hair and makeup: KAJITA Kyoko

Cast

ISHII
Moemi

OUCHI
Yoneji

KAGEYAMA
Hisae

KASUGAI
Ippei

KAWAMURA
Wakana

KIUCHI
Kotoko

KIJIMA
Tsuyoshi

SAKURAUCHI
Yu

SUGIYAMA
Ken

SUZUBAYASHI
Mari

DAIDOMUMON
Yuya

TAKEISHI
Morimasa

TATENO
Momoyo

NAGAI
Sayako

NOGUCHI
Shunsuke

HONDA
Maki

MIYAGISHIMA
Haruka

YAMAZAKI
Koji

YOSHIMI
Ryo

WAKAMIYA
Yoichi

WATANABE
Sayaka

Information

＜In Shizuoka＞
19 October, Saturday at 2:00 pm*lecture
20 October, Sunday at 2:00 pm*Post-performance talk
27 October, Sunday at 2:00 pm*Backstage tour
3 November, Sunday at 2:00 pm*Backstage tour
4 November, Monday at 2:00 pm*Backstage tour
9 November, Saturday at 2:00 pm*Backstage tour［Babysitting service］

At Shizuoka Arts Theatre
　
＜In Hamamatsu＞
7 December, Saturday at 13:30 pm
At Hamamatsu Social Welfare and Exchange Center
*Backstage tour (with Portuguese interprtation)
　
＜In Numazu＞
21 December, Saturday at 13:30 pm
At Numazu Civic Culture Center
　
Duration: Approx 110 minutes
In Japanese with English subtitles
*Please tell us beforehand if you want to see the show with preschool children.

Related Events

[In Shizuoka]
Art workshop
Let’s make masks with the props designer FUKASAWA Eri!
21 September, Saturday
13:00～14:30 For Children
15:30～17:30 For Everyone
At Cafe Cinderella, Shizuoka Atrs Theatre
Reservation required. Up to 10 people.
Fee: 2,000 yen
【In Japanese only】
　
Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance.
Free of charge. No reservation required.
【In Japanese only】
　
Lecture -Tracing the history of the work-
“The White Hare of Inaba-Navajo” was premiered as a commissioned work for the 10th anniversary of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. SPAC Staff YOKOYAMA Yoshiji will give a lecture on what to look for and pay attention to before the performance.
19 Octorber, Saturday 10:30～12:00
Fee: 1,000 yen / U25 500 yen
Reservation required. Up to 35 people.
【In Japanese only】
　
Meet us at Cafe Cinderella!
After the performance, the actors will come to see you off in their stage costumes. We hope you will take this opportunity to interact with the actors!
　
Post-Performance talk by the artists: after the performance.
20 Octorber, Sunday
Free of charge. No reservation required.
【In Japanese only】
　
Backstage tour
The technical staff will take you on a special backstage tour.
27 October, Sunday
3 November, Sunday
4 November, Monday
9 November, Saturday
After the performance
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 40 people.
【In Japanese only】

　
＜In Hamamatsu＞
Backstage tour
7 December, Saturday after the performance
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 40 people.
【In Japanese with Portuguese interprtation】
　

Performances for junior and high-school students

SPAC believes that theaters are a window to the world, and that is why it invites junior high school and high school students in Shizuoka Prefecture to its free-of-charge programs.

Tickets

〈Shizuoka〉
◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:31 August, Saturday at 10:00 am
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:7 Sepember, Saturday at 10:00 am

〈Hamamatsu and Numazu〉
◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:6 October, Sunday at 10:00 am
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:13 October, Sunday at 10:00 am
　
◎How to Purchase
at SPAC ticket center (10:00～18:00)
●Phone reservations　+81-54-202-3399
●Purchase at BOX Office

●Online reservations https://spac.or.jp/ticket
　
Day Ticket
Available at the entrance counter for leftover seats, from one hour prior to each performance.
　
◎Ticket Price
*All ticket prices include consumption tax.

●Individual ticket price: 4,200 JPY
●Student Discount:
　［U25 and University students］2,000 JPY
　［High school students and under］1,000 JPY
　*Please present ID/student ID at door
●Disability discount: 2,900 JPY ［for those with a disability pocketbook］
　*Please present disability pocketbook or Mirairo ID at door.
　*Free for One attendant.

　
*More than one discount cannot be claimed per purchase.
*Please claim any discount when making a reservation
　
〔Nursery room〕
For the Shizuoka and Numazu performances, there is a nursery room where parents can watch the program with their infant children.
*A babysitting service is available on 9 November.
*The only language our childcare staff speaks is Japanese.
*Fee is 1,000 yen per child
*Reservations are required for childcare services.
Please use the form below to make a reservation.
https://forms.gle/o6ESJ2VZQnmkyAut9
　　

Staff

Assistant director: NAKANO Masaki
Stage manager: HARAIKAWA Yukio
Stage: SUGIYAMA Yuri, HAYASHI Tetsuya
Lighting: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya
Sound: OTSUKI Minori
Art work: SATO Yosuke
Wardrobe: SEI Chigusa, IKEDA Yuna
Hair and makeup: TAKAHASHI Norimitsu, WAKABAYASHI Akane
Subtitles: OISHI Takako
Production: KUGA Haruko, SATO Hiko

PR Art Director: ABE Taichi(TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)
　
　
Produced and organized by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Approved by Fujinokuni Arts Festival

［Hamamatsu］
Under the auspices of Hamamatsu City Board of Education, Hamamatsu Cultural Foundation
Sponsored by Shunkado Co., Ltd.

[Numazu]
Co-produced by Numazu City Board of Education, Numazu City promotion public corporation
Co-operated by Izu Peninsula Geopark and Tourist Bureau

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council, Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities

*Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Musée du quai Branly, “The White Hare of Inaba-Navajo” was premiered in June 2016.

MIYAGI Satoshi

Born in Tokyo in 1959, after studying aesthetics at Tokyo University under ODASHIMA Yushi, WATANABE Moriaki and HIDAKA Hachiro, he founded the KU NA’ UKA theater company in 1990 and soon began staging plays overseas as well as in Japan. As a result, MIYAGI’s work — in which he often fuses contemporary textual interpretations with physical techniques and patterns of Asian theatre — has long been acclaimed both at home and far beyond. Indeed, in 2004 he received the 3rd Asahi Performing Arts Award, and the next year the 2nd Asahi Beer Art Award. Since taking up his position with SPAC in April 2007, MIYAGI has staged many of his own works — including “Medea”, the Hindu epic “Mahabharata”, and “Peer Gynt” — and has invited artists from abroad to present pieces casting a keen eye on the modern world as they see it. In line with his aim to make theatre “a window to the world,” he has also started a new SPAC-based project aimed at the youth of Shizuoka. In 2014, MIYAGI was invited to the Festival d’Avignon, where he received excellent reviews for his open-air version of the Hindu epic “Mahabharata” staged in La Carrière de Bourbon. Following that landmark achievement, the festival extended the honor of inviting MIYAGI to present a Buddhist interpretation he created of the ancient Greek mythological tragedy “Antigone” as its super-prestigious opening program for 2017. On that occasion, which was the first time an Asian play had ever been selected to launch the festival, MIYAGI’s exalted “stage” was the open-air Cour d’honneur du Palais des papes (the Honor Court of the Palace of Popes). By the play’s end, those towering medieval stone walls were ringing out with long and splendid standing ovations welcoming the work’s director and creator along with SPAC’s actors and staff — while more than 60 European media all gave great reviews. In 2018, he received the 68th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize of Drama. Also he received “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” from the Ministry of Culture of France in 2018. In 2023, he received the Japan Foundation Awards, La médaille d’or du Rayonnement Culturel de La Renaissance Française.

　
◆Presentation at the Musée du quai Branly
Just as Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Musée du quai Branly is one of the most significant museums in France. In 2006, “Mahabharata – Nalacharitam” (Directed by MIYAGI Satoshi) was widely acclaimed as an opening performance of the Musée du quai Branly’s new Théâtre Claude LÉVI-STRAUSS. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Musée du quai Branly, “The White Hare of Inaba-Navajo” was premiered in June 2016.
www.quaibranly.fr
　　

▲Image of Paris tour poster(9-19 June, 2016 )

▲2019