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Direction: IMAI Tomohiko
Text: ENDO Shusaku
　
▼Interview（JP）

　

　

　

Cast

　　

　


　

Direction: MIYAGI Satoshi
Text: Olivier PY
Original text: Grimm brothers
Translation: NISHIO Sachiko, YOKOYAMA Yoshiji
Music direction: TANAKAWA Hiroko

Cast

　

　

　

MIYAGI Satoshi

General Artistic Director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
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 abroad. 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 Boulbon. 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 recieved “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” from the Ministry of Culture of France in 2018.
　
Olivier PY
Playwright, director and actor. Born in 1965 in Grasse (France). He studied theatre at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique (CNSAD) in Paris, and theology and philosophy at l’Institut Catholique (Catholic University of Paris). He was Director of the Centre Dramatique National/Orléans-Loiret-Centre from 1998-2007, Director of the Théâtre national de l’Odéon from 2007–12 and of the Festival d’Avignon (2013–). Among his major works performed in Shizuoka between 2008–16 have been “Illusions Comiques,” “Epitre aux jeunes acteurs,” “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” (trilogy), “Romeo and Juliet Unabridged Version,” “Miss Knife chante Olivier PY” and “The Girl, the Devil and the Mill.”
　

WATANABE Takahiko gives his own take of Bertolt Brecht’s play

The gods descend to Human world search of good people. The play follows Rita, a woman from a ghetto, who arranges accommodations for the gods. Having received money in return, she starts her own business. In the fable The Good Person of Szechwan, Brecht portrayed the modern world where every person wears a mask of cruelty and greed to survive. WATANABE Takahiko, a renowned SPAC actor who has also recently started a career as a stage producer, boldly rewrites the play with a new narrative, depicting the main character Shen Teh and her alter ego Shui Ta as symbols of altruism and egoism.

For others? For yourself?
For today? For tomorrow?
Which you choose?
　
Original text: Bertold BRECHT
Conception, direction and script: WATANABE Takahiko
Script assistant: MORIYAMA Marie
　

▼ Rehearsal

　

Cast

WATANABE Takahiko
“I want to create a stage that is cruel, beautiful, tragic, and comedic all at the same time.”
An acting wizard with experience playing a vast range of characters on different platforms, ranging from theatre stages and contemporary dance and Butoh to films and TV series. He joined SPAC in 2010 and has appeared in Mahabharata, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antigone, and many other programs. In 2016, he staged The Hunchback of Aomori. He was awarded the Best Theatre Artists’ Prize in the 2009 TOGA Theatre Artists’ Competition.

Modern Asia portrayed in Peer Gynts
—A journey to find your true identity in a challenging era

Leading edge Indonesian stage producer Yudi Ahmad Tajudin found a portrait of modern Asia in the story of the ever-wandering traveler Peer. Japanese dancer KAWAGUCHI Takao, composer MORINAGA Yasuhiro, and SPAC actor Micari join other artists from across Asia for the creating-while-traveling process of the play, moving from Indonesia to Tokyo to Shizuoka. Other SPAC actors will also join to launch the stage in Shizuoka.
　

▼Workshop and Work In Progress Performance in East Flores (Indonesia)

　
Original text: Henrik IBSEN
Translation: Mitsuya Mori

Script and Direction: Yudi Ahmad Tajudin

In a collaboration with:
Ugoran Prasad (Dramaturg)
KAWAGUCHI Takao (Performance artist/Dancer/Choreographer)
Venuri PERERA (Choreographer/Dancer)
Micari (Actress[SPAC])
Muhammad Nur Qomarudin (Actor/Dancer)
MORINAGA Yasuhiro (Sound artist/Composer)
NGUYEN Manh Hung (Visual artist)
Arsita Iswardhani (Actress/Performance artist)
Gunawan Maryanto (Actor/Writer)

/ OUCHI Yoneji, SATO Yuzu, TATENO Momoyo, MAKIYAMA Yudai, MIYAGISHIMA Haruka, WAKAMIYA Yoichi (actor[SPAC])

　

Yudi Ahmad Tajudin
is founding member and artistic director of Teater Garasi/Garasi Performance Institute -an artist initiative and inter-disciplinary artist collective based in Yogyakarta-Indonesia and a 2013 Prince Claus Award Laureate. Yudi’s performing art works have been performed on international stages in Indonesia, Singapore, Germany and Japan. He has been involved in intercultural collaboration works with many noted theatre groups and artists, and interdisciplinary projects — dance, visual-art, music and contemporary opera. Known as a cutting edge director who has brought Indonesia’s theater scene to the next aesthetic level, Yudi was granted an ‘Art Award 2014’ from Ministry of Culture, Indonesia, and received Asian Cultural Council fellowship to study New York theatre scene in 2011-2012.

　

▲ Ode to Joy (2018) at Open Air Theatre “UDO”, Shizuoka Performing Arts Park

MIYAGI Satoshi’s Legendary Comedy Stage Is Coming Back!

Originally written by playwright KITAMURA So, Ode to Joy has long been praised as a monumental work in the history of Japanese modern performing arts. The plot takes place in a fictional suburban city in western Japan that has just come out of a nuclear war. While left-over missiles are still flying overhead, a strolling entertainer, Gesaku, a young lady, Kyoko, and a mysterious man, Yasuo, wander together in the city, singing and dancing to chindon music and indulging in comic discourse. This masterpiece, which sold out the seats of Open Air Theatre “UDO” of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Park last spring, is making its comeback at SPAC! What will the three wanderers see at the end of their journey?
　
Directed by MIYAGI Satoshi
Written by KITAMURA So
Set design: KAMIIKE Takuya

Cast

Information

■Schedule
2019

12 October, Saturday	14:00	*Guidance for theatre beginners
		*Post-performance talk
		*Shuttle bus from Eastern Shizuoka
13 October, Sunday	14:00	*Backstage tour
		*Nursery service
19 October, Saturday	14:00	*Backstage tour
		*Nursery service
20 October, Sunday	14:00	*Post-performance talk
26 October, Saturday	14:00	*Backstage tour

In Japanese with English subtitles
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: Shizuoka Arts Theatre　access

Performances for junior and high-school students

The mark “*” means the performances that have available seats for general audience. (The tickets are limited.)


11 October, Friday at 14:30*
15 October, Tuesday at 13:00*
17 October, Thursday at 13:30
18 October, Friday at 12:00
21 October, Monday at 13:30
23 October, Wednesday at 13:30 / 18:00*
24 October, Thursday at 12:00
25 October, Friday at 13:30

Related events

Pre-Performance Talk: Starting 25 minutes before each performance.
　
Post-performance talk by the artists and guests: after the performance.
12 October, Saturday
◎Talk by KAMIIKE Takuya, MIYAGI Satoshi and OSAWA Masachi (Sociologist from SPAC Literary Department)

20 October, Sunday
◎Talk by MIYAGI Satoshi, all casts and NAKAMURA Yuki (Production Staff)
　
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!
　
Backstage tour
The technical staff will take you on a special backstage tour. You can also ask us your questions about the stage.
13 October, Sunday
19 October, Saturday
26 October, Saturday
Every day, after the show
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 40 people.
　
Guidance for theatre beginners
SPAC actors will give beginner audiences a lecture on what to look for and pay attention to before the performance. This event can be participated in by both those seeing the performance for the first time and repeaters.
12 October, Saturday at 12:30
Time: About 60 minutes
In Japanese
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 20 people.

Shuttle bus to Shizuoka Arts Theatre

＜From Eastern Shizuoka＞
12 October, Saturday
Departure from Shuzenji-station to Shizuoka Arts Theatre

10:10 Shuzenji-station(South exit)
↓
11:05 Mishima-station(North exit)
↓
11:40 Numazu-station(North exit)
↓
13:00 Shizuoka Arts Theatre

*Returning bus will run after Post-performance talk / Backstage tour.
**Reservation is required.

Ticket Price

4,200 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

SPAC Membership Discount
3,500 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

Pair Discount
3,700 yen per person

Group Discount
3,300 yen per person for group of 3 or more

Senior Discount
3,500 yen for seniors over 60
*Please present ID at door

Student Discount
2,000 yen (University)
1,000 yen (High School and under)
*Please present school ID at door

Handicap Discount
2,900 yen (for those who possess handicap passbook)

*Cannot use more than one discount per purchase.
*Please inform use of discount when making reservation.

How to Purchase

Prior Reservation for Membership begins: 27 July at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 3 August at 10:00
　
●Online reservations
– Please enter from the language button “English”.
– Payment is possible with the following credit cards: DC, UFJ, NICOS, VISA, and Master. Tickets purchased through this website can be received at the venue from one hour prior to each performance.
　
●Phone reservations
from 10:00-18:00 at SPAC ticket center
TEL. +81-(0)54-202-3399
　
●Purchase at BOX Office
SPAC ticket center (10:00-18:00)
　
●Purchase at Seven Eleven
Please use Multi Copy Machine inside stores
　
Day Ticket
Available at the entrance counter for leftover seats, from one hour prior to each performance.
*Please confirm ticket availability on the day by phone or by visiting Twitter (@_SPAC_)

*Ticket reservations will finish at 18:00 on the day before the performance.

Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.
　
［Nursery room］　(up to three children, based on a first come first served basis; reservation required)
SPAC provides a nursery room where you can watch the performance with your infant children.

［Nursery service］　
Please contact us at least one week in advance if you would like to use the free nursery service run by volunteers.
13 October, Sunday
19 October, Saturday
Coverage: Infants aged two and under

Staff

Original lighting design: KITO Ayumi
Costume design: KOMAI Yumiko

Stage manager: FURUYA Kazumi
Assistant director: NAKANO Masaki
Stage: KAMIYA Toshiki, SUGIYAMA Yuri
Sound: HARADA Shinobu, HAYASHI Tetsuya
Lighting: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya
Assistant Set designer: TAKECHI Kanako
Art work: WATANABE Hiroki
Wardrobe: KAWAI Reiko, SATO Rise
Subtitle translation: MITACHI Riho
Subtitle operation: NAGAI Sayako
Production: YUKIOKA Jun, IRIE Kyohei

Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)
　
Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council
Licence number: So Kitamura 2019 No. 0007 Hirofumi Okano
Premiere: Mini Theater, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater (Co-production by Aichi Prefectural Art Theater & SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center)
　
　　 　

 

MIYAGI Satoshi

General Artistic Director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
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 abroad. 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 Boulbon. 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 recieved “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” from the Ministry of Culture of France in 2018.
　
KITAMURA So
Now aged 65, KITAMURA So is one of Japan’s leading playwrights, novelists and essayists. Back in the 1980s, however, he drew lots of attention as a leading figure in this country’s so-called “small-scale theatre movement” with his masterpiece Hogiuta (Ode to Joy) that premiered in 1979 and has been performed continuously as a modern classic since then.
In 1984, KITAMURA won the prestigious 28th Kishida Drama Award with his play 11 Nin no Shonen (Eleven Boys), and followed that in 1990 with the Kinokuniya Theatre Awards for Yuki wo Watatte Dai ni ko Tsuki no Akarusa (Pass over snow: The Second Draft; Moonlight). Since 2013 he has written a new series of original plays based on classic works of Japanese literature. The first of these, titled Goodbye and based on the great novelist DAZAI Osamu’s eponymous unfinished novel, won the 17th Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award in 2014.
Since 1996, meanwhile, as part of his longstanding effort to foster the talents of young writers, KITAMURA has also delivered lectures at Ai Hall, the public theatre in Itami City, Hyogo Prefecture, in a series titled “So’s private lesson in Itami on how to write a play.”

　

　

October 2019－March 2020
At Shizuoka Arts Theatre
　
　
#1
Ode to Joy　

Directed by MIYAGI Satoshi
Written by KITAMURA So
Performed by OKUNO Akihito, KASUGAI Ippei, TAKII Miki

*In Japanese with English subtitles

2019
12 October, Saturday
13 October, Sunday
19 October, Saturday
20 October, Sunday
26 October, Saturday
at 2:00pm

　
#2　
Peer Gynts -Asylum’s Dreams 　　

Original text by Henrik IBSEN
Directed by Yudi Ahmad Tajudin,
in a collaboration with
Ugoran Prasad (Dramaturg)
KAWAGUCHI Takao (Performance artist/Dancer/Choreographer)
Venuri PERERA (Choreographer/Dancer)
Micari (Actress)
Muhammad Nur Qomarudin (Actor/Dancer)
MORINAGA Yasuhiro (Sound artist/Composer)
NGUYEN Manh Hung (Visual artist)
Arsita Iswardhani (actress/performance artist)
Gunawan Maryanto (actor/writer)

Also performed by
OUCHI Yoneji, SATO Yuzu, TATENO Momoyo, MAKIYAMA Yudai, MIYAGISHIMA Haruka, WAKAMIYA Yoichi

*With Japanese/English subtitles

2019
9 November, Saturday
10 November, Sunday
16 November, Saturday
17 November, Sunday
at 2:00pm

　
#3
The Good Person of Szechwan (working title)　　

Directed by WATANABE Takahiko
Text by Bertolt BRECHT
Performed by IZUMI Yoji, OUCHI Tomomi, KIUCHI Kotoko, KIJIMA Tsuyoshi, KONAGAYA Katsuhiko, MISHIMA Keita, YAMAMOTO Miyuki, YOSHIUE Soichiro

2019
14 December, Saturday
15 December, Sunday
21 December, Saturday
22 December, Sunday
at 2:00pm

　　
#4
Grimm’s Fairy Tale -The Girl, the Devil and the Mill-

Directed by MIYAGI Satoshi
Written by Olivier PY
Original text by GRIMM brothers
Translated by NISHIO Sachiko and YOKOYAMA Yoshiji
Music Directed by TANAKAWA Hiroko
Performed by IKEDA Makiko, OUCHI Yoneji, KIJIMA Tsuyoshi, SUZUKI Mariko, DAIDOMUMON Yuya, TAKEISHI Morimasa, NAGAI Kenji, MIYAGISHIMA Haruka, MORIYAMA Fuyuko, WAKAMIYA Yoichi

*In Japanese with English subtitles

2020
18 January, Saturday
19 January, Sunday
25 January, Saturday
1 February, Saturday
2 February, Sunday
at 2:00pm

　
#5
The Menam River Japanese

Directed by IMAI Tomohiko
Written by ENDO Shusaku
Performed by ABE Kazunori, OUCHI Tomomi, OHTAKA Kouichi, OKUNO Akihito, KATO Yukio, KONAGAYA Katsuhiko, SATO Yuzu, TAKII Miki, HAYASHI Daiki, FUSE Asuka, MISHIMA Keita, YAMAMOTO Miyuki, YOSHIUE Soichiro, WATANABE Takahiko

*In Japanese with English subtitles

2020
15 February, Saturday
16 February, Sunday
23 February, Sunday
24 February, Monday
29 February, Saturday
1 March, Sunday
7 March, Saturday
at 2:00pm

Tickets

Ode to Joy
　Prior Reservation for Membership begins: 27 July at 10:00
　Advance Tickets Sale begins: 3 August at 10:00

Multitude of Peer Gynts (working title)
The Good Person of Szechwan (working title)
　Prior Reservation for Membership begins: 21 September at 10:00
　Advance Tickets Sale begins: 28 September at 10:00

Grimm’s Fairy Tale -The Girl, the Devil and the Mill-
The Menam River Japanese
　Prior Reservation for Membership begins: 16 November at 10:00
　Advance Tickets Sale begins: 23 November at 10:00

●Online reservations



– Please enter from the language button “English”.
– Payment is possible with the following credit cards: DC, UFJ, NICOS, VISA, and Master. Tickets purchased through this website can be received at the venue from one hour prior to each performance.

●Phone reservations
from 10:00-18:00 at SPAC ticket center
TEL. +81-(0)54-202-3399

●Purchase at BOX Office
SPAC ticket center (10:00-18:00)

●Purchase at Seven Eleven
Please use Multi Copy Machine inside stores

Day Ticket
Available at the entrance counter for leftover seats, from one hour prior to each performance.
*Please confirm ticket availability on the day by phone or by visiting Twitter (@_SPAC_)

*Ticket reservations will finish at 18:00 on the day before the performance.

Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.

Ticket Price

4,200 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

SPAC Membership Discount
3,500 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

Pair Discount
3,700 yen per person

Group Discount
3,300 yen per person for group of 3 or more

Senior Discount
3,500 yen for seniors over 60
*Please present ID at door

Student Discount
2,000 yen (University)
1,000 yen (High School and under)
*Please present school ID at door

Handicap Discount
2,900 yen (for those who possess handicap passbook)

*Cannot use more than one discount per purchase.
*Please inform use of discount when making reservation.

　
［Nursery room］　（up to three children, based on a first come first served basis; reservation required）
SPAC provides a nursery room where you can watch the performance with your infant children.

［Nursery service］　
Please contact us at least one week in advance if you would like to use the free nursery service run by volunteers.

Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council