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 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.

《COVID-19 Prevention Measures》
Requests to All Visitors

In addition to the following, please be sure to read [Important] Measures for Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 and Requests to All Visitors as well.

●Please check your physical condition before coming to the theater.
(If you have a fever or other symptoms, please refrain from visiting the theater.)
●Please be sure to wear a mask when you visit the theater.
●Your body temperature will be taken at the theater entrance using thermography or a non-contact thermometer. If your temperature exceeds 37.5 degrees Celsius, you will be asked to refrain from entering the theater.
●Please fill out and submit the visitor card.
(In the event of an outbreak of infection, we may provide the submitted information to public institutions such as health centers.)
※For this fiscal year, the balcony seats on the 1st floor of Shizuoka Arts Theatre are available if you maintain distance from the members of the audience around you. In Ryuyo Naginoki Kaikan (Iwata performance), sufficient distance between adjacent seats will be ensured.
Please contact the SPAC Ticket Center for further information.
　

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: 25 September at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 2 October 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)

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］ (One family only per performance)
For both the Iwata and Shizuoka performances, there is a nursery room where parents can watch the program with their infant children.
*This service can only be reserved by phone or at the box office.

Staff

Lighting design: Juliette BESANÇON
Sound design: Isabelle SUREL
Music: TANAKAWA Hiroko
Costume design: KOMAI Yumiko

Stage manager: OGAWA Tetsuro
Stage: ICHIKAWA Kazumi, TSUCHIYA Katsunori
Lighting operation: HANAWA Yuuki
Lighting: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya, MIZUNO Hikaru
Video technician: TAKEZAWA Akira
Video operation: MORITA Honoka
Sound: HARADA Shinobu, TAKESHIMA Chisato
Art work: FUKASAWA Eri, SATO Yosuke
Chair: HIKOSAKA Reiko
Wardrobe: YAMAMOTO Kana
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi

Interpretation: ISHIKAWA Hiromi, YOKOYAMA Yoshiji, YAMADA Hiromi, HARA Mariko
Production: KEIMI Aoi, YONEYAMA Junichi, SAKANAKA Toshiki, OISHI Takako (Subtitle operation)
Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)
Promotion photo: HASHIMOTO Hirotaka
　
Organized by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan
Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, T2G-Théâtre de Gennevilliers Centre Dramatique National
Co-produced by Théâtre des 13 vents CDN Montpellier
Supported by The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

Daniel Jeanneteau is a director and a scenographer. After graduating from Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, he studied drama at the school attached to the National Theatre of Strasbourg. While at school, he met Claude Régy, a maestro of the theater world in France, and was engaged in the scenography of his works for fifteen years thereafter. He also worked with many directors and choreographers, including Jean-Claude Gallotta, Trisha Brown, and Pascal Rambert. Since 2001, in collaboration with Marie-Christine Soma, he has been directing works by Racine, Strindberg, Sarah Kane, and Daniel Keene. After serving as the art director in Studio-Théâtre de Vitry from 2008, he assumed the post of theater director for T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers in 2017.

Mammar Benranou

After making efforts as a film director, cameraman and editor, Mammar Benranou directed Forêt D.88 (2007) based on a theatrical project by Guillaume Vincent. In 2009, he wrote and directed Le Chant des invisibles, an experimental documentary film. For SPAC, he was in charge of creating images used in the play The Glass Menagerie, and also produced a video recording the works by Daniel Jeanneteau from a unique viewpoint. He also designed images for the L’Annonce faite à Marie by Paul Claudel (directed by Yves Beaunesne, 2014). Recently, he has been working as a collaborator for Aguets, partition pour un cirque ensauvagé (2021), directed by Daniel Jeanneteau, with the students of the Académie Fratellini.

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https://spac.or.jp/en/au2021-sp2022/thecherryorchard_shizuoka Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:19:15 +0000 https://spac.or.jp/?p=39952 Story of a landowner living in an illusion of her past, and funny people gathering at her estate This masterpi…

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Story of a landowner living in an illusion of her past,
and funny people gathering at her estate

This masterpiece by Chekhov that continues to be loved throughout the world is turned into an ephemeral but beautiful world on stage by Daniel Jeanneteau, a French stage director, together with selected French and Japanese actors. Conversations among people who visit the estate are humorous as they are incompatible, reminding the audience of a sweet-and-sour romance that we have all experienced at least once. This is the long-awaited fourth round of the collaboration between Jeanneteau and SPAC, who have established a relationship of deep trust through works such as Blasted by Sarah Kane (2009), The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (2011), and The Blind by Maurice Maeterlinck (2015).
　
▼A scene from the first round of stage rehearsals held at Shizuoka Arts Theater in August 2021

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≪International collaboration work≫
Direction and Scenography: Daniel JEANNETEAU
Artistic collaboration, Dramaturgy, and Video: Mammar BENRANOU
Text: Anton CHEKHOV
Translation: André MARKOWICZ, Françoise MORVAN(French) ADACHI Noriko(Japanese)

　
Outline of the story
Ranevskaya ends her relationship with her lover in Paris and returns to her family estate after five years. However, because of accumulated debts, the cherry orchard she had cherished is about to be auctioned to pay for the mortgage…

　

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Cast

SUZUKI Haruyo

FUSE Asuka

Solène ARBEL

ABE Kazunori

Quentin BOUISSOU

Aurélien ESTAGER

KONAGAYA
Katsuhiko

Nathalie
KOUSNETZOFF

KATO Yukio
　

YAMAMOTO Miyuki

Axel
BOGOUSSLAVSKY

DAIDOMUMON
Yuya

OUCHI Yoneji

　

The work is performed in Japanese and French,
with Japanese subtitles for French lines.

　

Schedule

＜Shizuoka＞

2021
13 November, Saturday at 2:00pm
　*Guidance for theatre beginners
　*Post-performance talk
　*Nursery service
14 November, Sunday at 2:00pm
　*Backstage lecture
20 November, Saturday at 2:00pm
　*Post-performance talk
21 November, Sunday at 2:00pm
　*Backstage lecture
23 November, Tuesday at 2:00pm
　*Backstage lecture
28 November, Sunday at 2:00pm
　*Backstage lecture
12 December, Sunday at 2:00pm

Duration: 140 minutes
At Shizuoka Arts Theatre
In Japanese and French with Japanese subtitles
　
*Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.
　
＜Iwata＞
3 December, Friday at 1:30pm
At Ryuyo Naginoki Kaikan, Iwata city
In Japanese and French with Japanese subtitles
★For more information, please click here.
　

《COVID-19 Prevention Measures》
Requests to All Visitors

In addition to the following, please be sure to read [Important] Measures for Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 and Requests to All Visitors as well.

●Please check your physical condition before coming to the theater.
(If you have a fever or other symptoms, please refrain from visiting the theater.)
●Please be sure to wear a mask when you visit the theater.
●Your body temperature will be taken at the theater entrance using thermography or a non-contact thermometer. If your temperature exceeds 37.5 degrees Celsius, you will be asked to refrain from entering the theater.
●Please fill out and submit the visitor card.
(In the event of an outbreak of infection, we may provide the submitted information to public institutions such as health centers.)
※For this fiscal year, the balcony seats on the 1st floor of Shizuoka Arts Theatre are available if you maintain distance from the members of the audience around you. In Ryuyo Naginoki Kaikan (Iwata performance), sufficient distance between adjacent seats will be ensured.
Please contact the SPAC Ticket Center for further information.

Related events

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance.
　
Post-performance talk by the artists: after the performance.
13 November，Saturday
20 November，Saturday
　
Backstage lecture
The technical staff will explain behind the scenes.
14 November，Sunday
21 November，Sunday
23 November，Tuesday
28 November, Sunday
Every day, after the performance
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. No reservation required.　
　
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.
13 November，Saturday 12:30～13:30
In Japanese
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 20 people.
　

　Performed on the same day　
Special winter performance Dream and Derangement
A quiet homage to the late Claude RÉGY by Satoshi MIYAGI.

12 December, Sunday
At Shizuoka Performing Arts Park
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 13 November at 10:00

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.
It is scheduled that about 2,000 students from 10 junior high and high schools in the prefecture will view the work at Shizuoka Arts Theatre.

Access

Shizuoka Arts Theatre
2-3-1 Higashishizuoka, Suruga-ku Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan
● Approx. 5 minutes walk from South exit of JR Higashi-Shizuoka Station.
The entrance is on the east side (towards Shimizu) of the Granship building.
For more information, please click here: https://spac.or.jp/en/access
　

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: 25 September at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 2 October 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)

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］ (One family only per performance)
For both the Iwata and Shizuoka performances, there is a nursery room where parents can watch the program with their infant children.
*This service can only be reserved by phone or at the box office.

Staff

Lighting design: Juliette BESANÇON
Sound design: Isabelle SUREL
Music: TANAKAWA Hiroko
Costume design: KOMAI Yumiko

Stage manager: OGAWA Tetsuro
Stage: ICHIKAWA Kazumi, TSUCHIYA Katsunori
Lighting operation: HANAWA Yuuki
Lighting: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya, MIZUNO Hikaru
Video technician: TAKEZAWA Akira
Video operation: MORITA Honoka
Sound: HARADA Shinobu, TAKESHIMA Chisato
Art work: FUKASAWA Eri, SATO Yosuke
Chair: HIKOSAKA Reiko
Wardrobe: YAMAMOTO Kana
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi

Interpretation: ISHIKAWA Hiromi, YOKOYAMA Yoshiji, YAMADA Hiromi, HARA Mariko
Production: KEIMI Aoi, YONEYAMA Junichi, SAKANAKA Toshiki, OISHI Takako (Subtitle operation)
Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)
Promotion photo: HASHIMOTO Hirotaka
　
Organized by The Japan Foundation, SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, T2G-Théâtre de Gennevilliers Centre Dramatique National
Co-produced by Théâtre des 13 vents CDN Montpellier

　　

Daniel Jeanneteau is a director and a scenographer. After graduating from Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, he studied drama at the school attached to the National Theatre of Strasbourg. While at school, he met Claude Régy, a maestro of the theater world in France, and was engaged in the scenography of his works for fifteen years thereafter. He also worked with many directors and choreographers, including Jean-Claude Gallotta, Trisha Brown, and Pascal Rambert. Since 2001, in collaboration with Marie-Christine Soma, he has been directing works by Racine, Strindberg, Sarah Kane, and Daniel Keene. After serving as the art director in Studio-Théâtre de Vitry from 2008, he assumed the post of theater director for T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers in 2017.

Mammar Benranou

After making efforts as a film director, cameraman and editor, Mammar Benranou directed Forêt D.88 (2007) based on a theatrical project by Guillaume Vincent. In 2009, he wrote and directed Le Chant des invisibles, an experimental documentary film. For SPAC, he was in charge of creating images used in the play The Glass Menagerie, and also produced a video recording the works by Daniel Jeanneteau from a unique viewpoint. He also designed images for the L’Annonce faite à Marie by Paul Claudel (directed by Yves Beaunesne, 2014). Recently, he has been working as a collaborator for Aguets, partition pour un cirque ensauvagé (2021), directed by Daniel Jeanneteau, with the students of the Académie Fratellini.

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https://spac.or.jp/en/au2021-sp2022/la-republique-des-abeilles_2021 Sat, 04 Sep 2021 04:17:52 +0000 https://spac.or.jp/?p=39712 From flowers to stars; everything is connected. Maurice Maeterlinck, the writer well known as the author of Th…

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From flowers to stars; everything is connected.

Maurice Maeterlinck, the writer well known as the author of The Blue Bird, was also a competent beekeeper. Based on his essay The Life of the Bee, Céline Schaeffer, a French Director, vividly depicts a year in the life of a honeybee wrapped in mystery. The work, skillfully incorporating projection and dance, was re-created by SPAC in Japanese in 2020. It received a favorable reception as a theatrical play that can be enjoyed by both adults and children. Beautiful scenery that changes thorough the four seasons, and the life led by the honeybee—Look very carefully, and the voice of nature will invite you to join the adventure inside a beehive.
　
▼Stage photos（2020）／Performance in 2020

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Based on The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck
Written and directed by Céline SCHAEFFER
Performed by SPAC / TAKII Miki, NAGAI Kenji, NAKAMURA Yuki, KIUCHI Kotoko
Japanese Script by NOUSO Masao

　

SPAC 2020–2021 programs
Promotional videos

• ［ENGLISH］

• ［FRENCH］

　

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Cast

TAKII Miki

NAGAI Kenji

NAKAMURA Yuki

KIUCHI Kotoko

　

Schedule

＜Shizuoka＞

2021
2 October，Saturday at 2:00pm
*Post-performance talk
3 October，Sunday at 2:00pm
*Backstage lecture
9 October，Saturday at 2:00pm
*Backstage lecture
10 October，Sunday at 2:00pm
*Science talk
23 October，Saturday at 2:00pm
*Post-performance talk
24 October，Sunday at 2:00pm
*Backstage lecture *Nursery service

Venue: Shizuoka Arts Theatre
　
＜Shimoda＞
[50th anniversary of Shimoda being inaugurated as a city]

2021
27 November, Saturday at 2:00pm
*Backstage lecture
Venue: Shimoda Civic Culture Center
　
Common for both Shizuoka and Shimoda performances　
In Japanese
Duration: 60 minutes
Recommended for ages 7 and up
*Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.
　

《COVID-19 Prevention Measures》
Requests to All Visitors

In addition to the following, please be sure to read [Important] Measures for Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 and Requests to All Visitors as well.

●Please check your physical condition before coming to the theater.
(If you have a fever or other symptoms, please refrain from visiting the theater.)
●Please be sure to wear a mask when you visit the theater.
●Your body temperature will be taken at the theater entrance using thermography or a non-contact thermometer. If your temperature exceeds 37.5 degrees Celsius, you will be asked to refrain from entering the theater.
●Please fill out and submit the visitor card.
(In the event of an outbreak of infection, we may provide the submitted information to public institutions such as health centers.)
※For this fiscal year, the balcony seats on the 1st floor of Shizuoka Arts Theatre are available if you maintain distance from the members of the audience around you.
In Shimoda City Cultural Hall (Shimoda performance), sufficient distance between adjacent seats will be ensured.
Please contact the SPAC Ticket Center for further information.

Related events

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance.

Post-performance talk by the artists: after the performance.
2 October，Saturday
23 October，Saturday
　
　Special　　Science Talk
“The world of bees and social insects”
Teacher: Toshio Kishimoto（Professor of “Museum of Natural and Environmental History”）
10 October，Sunday
Time: About 30 minutes, after the performance
*Free of charge
*No reservation required
＊”Museum of Natural and Environmental History”：https://www.fujimu100.jp/en/

Backstage lecture
The technical staff will explain behind the scenes.
3 October，Sunday
9 October，Saturday
24 October，Sunday
27 November, Saturday
Every day, after the performance
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. No reservation required.　
　

　Special　
“Museum of Natural and Environmental History” Presents
Specimen exhibition “The World of Bees”

A nature museum shows up in the theater lobby!
Specimens of bees selected by the museum researchers will be exhibited during the performance period.

From 1 2 October to 27 October
Every day, from 10:00-18:00
Except 16 October
Venue: 1st floor lobby of Shizuoka Arts Theatre
Free of charge.

　

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.
It is scheduled that about 3,000 students from 29 junior high and high schools in the prefecture will view the work at Shizuoka Arts Theatre, Hamamatsu City Tenryu Mibu Hall, and Shimoda City Cultural Hall.

Access

＜Shizuoka＞
Shizuoka Arts Theatre
2-3-1 Higashishizuoka, Suruga-ku Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan
● Approx. 5 minutes walk from South exit of JR Higashi-Shizuoka Station.
The entrance is on the east side (towards Shimizu) of the Granship building.
For more information, please click here: https://spac.or.jp/en/access
　
＜Shimoda＞
Shimoda Citizens’ Cultural Center Large Hall
4-1-2 Shimoda City, Shizuoka ,Japan
● Approx. 7minutes walk from Izukyu-Shimoda Station.
　

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)
　

Family Discount
3,300 yen per person with one child under high school

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

How to Purchase

Prior Reservation for Membership begins: 28 August at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 4 September 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)
　
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］ (One family only per performance)
For both the Shimoda and Shizuoka performances, there is a nursery room where parents can watch the program with their infant children.
*This service can only be reserved by phone or at the box office.
　

Staff

Japanese Script translation: INOUE Yuriko
Interpreter: HIRANO Akihito, YAMADA Hiromi
Stage manager: YAMAZAKI Kaoru
Stage: MORIBE Rio, YEH Chiahsing
Video: TAKEZAWA Akira
Lighting arrangement: HIGUCHI Masayuki
Lighting operation: MIZUNO Hikaru
Lighting: KAMIYA Reina
Sound: SAWADA Yukino, OTSUKI Minori　
Art work: FUKASAWA Eri, SATO Yosuke, WATANABE Hiroki, YOSHIDA Yuna
Costume: KOMAI Yumiko, SATO Rise, MAKINO Saho
Wardrobe: MAKINO Saho
Assistant director: NAKANO Masaki
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi
Production: MIYAKAWA Eri, YUKIOKA Jun, KITAHORI Ruka, TOTSUKA Mina

Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)
Flyer illustration: OCHIAI Megumi
　
Original Staff
Scenography Élie BARTHÈS, Céline SCHAEFFER, Lola SERGENT
Video Élie BARTHÈS
Dramaturgy and artistic collaboration Julien AVRIL
Music Peter CHASE
Costumes, accessories Lola SERGENT
Lights Jean-Pascal PRACHT
Stage set construction Jérôme JUHEL
Paintings Jean-Paul DEWYNTER
Filmed images of the bee Jean-Michel POULICHOT
　
Organized by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council

［Shimoda］
Organized by The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan
Cosponsored by Shimoda City Promotion Public Corporation
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

　

【Profile】
Céline Schaeffer

Céline Schaeffer is a director and visual artist born in France. After studying formative arts, she started activities as an assistant director in 1995, and work as a collaborator for Valère Novarina, a representative playwriter in modern France, in 1999. In 2019, she founded her company “Le mélodrOme,” and created the “Republic of the Bees,” first performed in Festival d’Avignon, which became a sensation. With her creative style of crossing the boundaries between theatrical plays, languages, and the arts, she is emerging under the spotlight.

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