Eels travel thousands of kilometers across the ocean to spawn—SPAC (Shizuoka Performing Arts Center)’s new production draws a parallel between the life cycle of eels and the journeys of people who, for various reasons, repeatedly cross the sea. Playwright Natsuki Ishigami and SPAC present a new performance in close collaboration with a cast of residents with Brazilian roots in Shizuoka prefecture, with whom she conducted research and shared opinions for more than a year. Following more than a year of research and dialogue, they join SPAC performers as part of the main cast.

In preparation for its premiere in Shizuoka in April 2026, a Work-in-Progress performance will be held in Hamamatsu on February 28 and March 1.
　
A página em português está aqui!
https://spac.or.jp/2025/eel-migration-portugues
　

　
Text and direction: ISHIGAMI Natsuki
Music: TANAKAWA Hiroko
Set design: SASAKI Ayami
Sound design: WADA Masashi

Cast:

　

Profile

ISHIGAMI Natsuki

Playwright, working mainly in the company “Pepin” from 1999. She works on plays and art-projects expressing peopleʼs alternative behaviors in cities and communities in Japan and abroad. Her recent activities include: directing Stage Art Sector in “Culture City of East Asia 2019 Toshima,” writing and staging “Oesiki Project Tour Performance ʻBEAT,ʼ” being Guest Curator for ADAM Artist Lab in Taipei Arts Festival 2019, directing “Theatre Today” in On Stage Shizuoka (FY2021) and directing “Yoroboshi”(2022), “Otsuya’s Love”(2023) and “The Kitchen of Click-Clack Mountain”(2024) at SPAC.

Information

〈Work-in-Progress〉

2026
Saturday, 28 February at 1:30 pm
Sunday, 1 March at 1:30 pm
At Hamamatsu Science Museum
*A talk session will be held after the performance by the artists in Japanese.

　
Duration: Within 60minutes
In Japanese (partially in Brazilian Portuguese)
【Open Seating】
*Please tell us beforehand if you want to see the show with preschool children.

Ticket

◎Ticket Price
2,000 yen (One viewing for regular adult)
600 yen (U25 and University students)

SPAC Membership Discount
1,800 yen (One viewing for regular adult)
　
◎How to Purchase
◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:
　17 January at 10:00
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:
　18 January 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 the Box Office
SPAC ticket center (10:00-18:00)
　　

　

Schedule

June 2024
　– Research begins
February 2025
　– Creation process begins
April–May 2025
　– Open Studio
　　Venue: Shizuoka Performing Arts Park
February 2026
　– Work-in-Progress Presentation in Hamamatsu
　　Venue: Hamamatsu Science Museum
April 2026
　– Premiere in Shizuoka
　　Venue: Shizuoka Performing Arts Park

▼Production Blog
　
▼Open Studio 2025

▼Research and creation

Staff

Stage manager: SHIMODA Tomonori
Stage: FURUYA Kazumi
Lighting: HIGUCHI Masayuki
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi
Photography: SUZUKI Ryuichiro
Production: SAKANAKA Toshiki, SATO Hiko

Research Collaboration: KAIFU Kenzo
Flyer design (Work in Progress): MIURA Yusuke
　
Produced and organized by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Approved by Fujinokuni Arts Festival

Commission: Japan Cultural Expo 2.0
Co-host: Hamamatsu Science Museum(Work in Progress)
Cooperation: Hamamatsu Foundation for International Communications and Exchanges
Sponsor: Consulate-General of Brazil in Hamamatsu, Iwata Association for International Communications and Exchanges, Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo/Guimarães Rosa Institute
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council
Co-produced by: T2G-Théâtre de Gennevilliers Centre Dramatique National

　
　　　　

　

　
There are things we regard as common knowledge today, but who first propounded them and when?

This dramatic tour de force by Bertolt BRECHT superimposes the life of Galileo Galilei—who advocated heliocentrism at a time when the geocentric model was considered to be common sense—upon his own life under the Nazis. In an age in which we are bombarded with information and face the critical question of what to believe, what is the “truth” that this play depicts? That is the question posed to young people living in the modern age through this monumental historical work directed by TADA Junnosuke, who in 2023 fascinated many young people with his staging of “The Dancing Girl of Izu”, in a new theatrical style called “touristic drama” that combines pop sensibility with a sense of immersion. This multi-protagonist play features twenty members of SPAC’s own troupe of actors.
　
Written and Directed by TADA Junnosuke
Original Work by Bertolt BRECHT
　

Profile

TADA Junnosuke

TADA Junnosuke is a theatrical director born in 1976. He presides over Tokyo Deathlock, and is engaged in works of various genres, including classical drama, modern plays, dance, and performance art. Along with such creative activities, he also holds important positions such as artistic director for public theaters, art director for municipalities, and festival director. In 2013, he became the first foreign-national winner of the 50th Dong-A Theater Award in Korea with “Karumeghi,” a jointly produced work by Japan and South Korea, He currently serves as a joint director for the Tokyo Festival, and is also a part-time lecturer for Shikoku Gakuin University and Joshibi University of Art and Design. For SPAC, he directed “Spinning Gears” (written by AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke) in 2018 and “The Dancing Girl of Izu” (written by KAWABATA Yasunari) in 2023.

Cast

ISHII Moemi, OUCHI Tomomi, OOTAKA Koichi, KAGEYAMA Hisae, KASUGAI Ippei, KATO Yukio, KAWAMURA Wakana, KIUCHI Kotoko, KONAGAYA Katsuhiko, SAKURAUCHI Yu, SATO Yuzu, SUZUKI Mariko, SUZUBAYASHI Mari, NAGAI Kenji, NAKANO Masaki, MAKIYAMA Yudai, MISHIMA Keita, YOSHIUE Soichiro, WATANABE Sayaka, WATANABE Takahiko

　

Infomation

2026
Sunday, 18 January at 1:30 pm
Saturday, 24 January at 1:30 pm ◆Nursery service available
Sunday, 25 January at 1:30 pm
Sunday, 1 February at 1:30 pm
Saturday, 14 February at 1:30 pm
Sunday, 15 February at 1:30 pm
Saturday, 7 March at 1:30 pm

At Shizuoka Arts Theatre
　
Duration: Within 120minuites（to be determined）
In Japanese
　
◆English subtitles
will be available for the performances on 14 & 15 February, 7 March.
Mobile tablets for subtitles are available free of charge. (limited number of devices)
▼Booking form for tablets
https://forms.gle/MSnEZHSQZ29k5zqc9
　

　

Related events

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance. Free of charge. No reservation required. (In Japanese only, expect 14, 15 February)
　
Meet us at Café 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!
　
Pre-performance
A mini performance introducing “Galileo”
14, 15 February at 13:05 pm
At Shizuoka Arts Theatre, Café Cinderella (2nd Floor)
Approx. 15 minutes / Free, no reservation required
Performed by the students of the Drama Program, Arts Department, Shimizu Minami High School
　
Further related events will be announced later.

　

Cry room

At Shizuoka Arts Theatre, there is a soundproof room where you can watch the performance through a glass window.

〈Ticket Prices〉
・Adults: ¥3,200 per person
・Children requiring a seat (high school age and under): ¥1,100
・Children not requiring a seat: Free
*Tickets are available by phone or at the box office only.
　

Nursery service

Nursery service will be available for the performance on 24 January.
Details on how to apply will be updated and announced by the ticket release date.

【Services available in Japanese only】
Coverage: 6 months to 7 years old
Fee: ¥1,000 per child

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.

　

Ticket Price

4,600 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

●Student Discount:
　［U25 and University students］2,200 yen
　［High school students and under］1,100 yen
　*Please present ID/student ID at door
●Disability discount: 3,200 yen (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

　

How to Purchase

◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:
　2 November at 10:00
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:
　9 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)
　
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 SPAC official website

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

Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.
　

Staff

Set design: KAMIIKE Takuya
Lighting design: IWAKI Tamotsu
Sound design: HARADA Shinobu
Costume design: SEI Chigusa

Assistant director: HAMAYOSHI Seitaro
Stage manager: OGAWA Tesuro
Stage: SUGIYAMA Yuri, YAMAZAKI Kaoru
Lighting operator: TAKEZAWA Akira
Sound: TAKESHIMA Chisato
Assistant set design: MORI Masashi
Wardrobe: MAKINO Saho
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi

Production: KUGA Haruko, MORI Teruyoshi

Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)

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

　

　
“The purpose of playing…[is] to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature” (Hamlet)

Upon receiving news of his father’s sudden death, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, hurries back to his country, only to find that his uncle, Claudius, has succeeded to the throne and married Hamlet’s widowed mother. Stunned after losing everything, Hamlet is confronted by his father’s ghost, who commands his son to avenge his death at the hands of Claudius.

This is the first production at SPAC by director UEDA Kumiko, who has risen to prominence through her tireless activities within Japan and overseas. UEDA, who is laser-focused on work that bridges the gap between popular appeal and artistry, and which even first-time theatre-goers can enjoy, is teaming up with SPAC for the first time with this staging of Shakespeare’s theatrical masterpiece. Through the medium of the actors’ bodies, this ambitious play simultaneously depicts human love and hate, justice, existence after death, space, and the providence of the natural world.
　
Directed by UEDA Kumiko
Written by William SHAKESPERARE
　

Profile

UEDA Kumiko

Playwright/director, graduated in French literature from Kyoto University, Ueda has been creating works since 2013 at the intersection of philosophy, corporeality, and visual aesthetics. In 2023–2024, she is conducting research at the Théâtre de Gennevilliers as part of an official artistic training program supported by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs. During this period, she established her base in France, where she continues to live and work.
Her work explores the sensitive forms of temporality and instinct in a society dominated by productivity. In 2022, her play “Biome” was nominated for the Kishida Kunio Prize, and in 2024, she was selected for an official residency at KIAC for her project “Pneuma”. Recent projects include “Cavalleria Rusticana” (Aichi Arts Center), “Banquet du Vide” (Kamata Onsen), and “Pneuma” (KIAC), with video excerpts available below.
She is currently developing “Les Pleureuses” and “When Does Time Become Beauty?”, two France-based projects that explore the female body and time through choreographic research. Both works are being created in collaboration with artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, reflecting her commitment to transcultural and interdisciplinary creation.

Cast

　

Infomation

2025
Sunday, 9 November at 1:30 pm＊Post-performance talk
Saturday, 15 November at 1:30 pm
Saturday, 22 November at 1:30 pm＊Backstage tour/◆Nursary service available
Sunday, 23 November at 1:30 pm＊Backstage tour
Saturday, 29 November at 1:30 pm◆Japanese/English subtitles available
Saturday, 6 December at 1:30 pm◆Japanese/English subtitles available
Sunday, 7 December at 1:30 pm＊Pre-performance/◆Japanese/English subtitles available

At Shizuoka Arts Theatre
　
Duration: Within 120minuites（to be determined）
In Japanese
　
◆Japanese subtitles
will be available for the performances on 29 November, 6 and 7 December.
Mobile tablets for subtitles are available free of charge. (limited number of devices)
▼Booking form for tablets.
https://forms.gle/EN4gEMd2up4EHmNL9
　
◆English subtitles
will be available for the performances on 29 November, 6 and 7 December.
Mobile tablets for subtitles are available free of charge. (limited number of devices)
▼Booking form for tablets.
https://forms.gle/RYHx71v1sXwuGb6K9

　

Related events

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance. Free of charge. No reservation required. (In Japanese only, expect 7 December)
　
Meet us at Café 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!
　
Pre-performance
A mini performance introducing “Hamlet”
7 December at 13:05 pm
At Shizuoka Arts Theatre, Café Cinderella (2nd Floor)
Approx. 15 minutes / Free, no reservation required
Performed by the students of the Drama Program, Arts Department, Shimizu Minami High School
　
Post-performance talk
Sunday, 9 November after the perfomance
by UEDA Kumiko and ISHIGAMI Natsuki (SPAC Autumn Season 2025-2026 Artistic Director)
　
Backstage tour
The technical staff will take you on a special backstage tour.
22, 23 November after the performance
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 40 people.

Cry room

At Shizuoka Arts Theatre, there is a soundproof room where you can watch the performance through a glass window.

〈Ticket Prices〉
・Adults: ¥3,200 per person
・Children requiring a seat (high school age and under): ¥1,100
・Children not requiring a seat: Free
*Tickets are available by phone or at the box office only.
　

Nursery service

Nursery service will be available for the performance on 22 November.
Please contact [ticket@spac.or.jp] by 15 November in advance if you would like to use the nursery service.

【Services available in Japanese only】
Coverage: 6 months to 7 years old
Fee: ¥1,000 per child

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.

　

Ticket Price

4,600 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

●Student Discount:
　［U25 and University students］2,200 yen
　［High school students and under］1,100 yen
　*Please present ID/student ID at door
●Disability discount: 3,200 yen (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

　

How to Purchase

◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:
　7 September at 10:00
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:
　14 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 SPAC official website

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

Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.
　

Staff

Lighting design: OSAKO Koji
Set design: FUKASAWA Eri
Sound design: SAWADA Yukino
Costume design: SEI Chigusa

Rehearsal director: TERAUCHI Ayako
Stage manager: HARAIKAWA Yukio
Stage: FURUYA Kazumi, TSUCHIYA Katsunori
Lighting operator: TAKEZAWA Akira
Sound: KONDO Yu
Assistant set design: SATO Yosuke
Wardrobe: IKEDA Yuna
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi

Production: YONEYAMA Junichi, MAEHARA Takuya, MURAKAMI Ema

Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)

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

　

　

100th anniversary of Yukio Mishima’s birth

Toshinori , a young blind man, describes “what he saw at the end of the world.”
He keeps denying the real world and referring to it as a “ghost.” Is there any future for him?

In a room at a family court, fifteen years after the Pacific War, two couples are contesting the custody of a beautiful young man named Toshinori, who lost his parents and his sight during the conflict. With the conciliation process in deadlock, the mediator, Shinako, decides she can stand it no longer and has a one-to-one talk with Toshinori….

Yoroboshi is one of MISHIMA Yukio’s Modern Noh Plays, in which he adapted traditional Noh verses into modern plays. The director is ISHIGAMI Natsuki, a playwright who has worked on art projects in public spaces on the theme of cities and communities. When premiered in 2022 at the SCOT Summer Season (Toyama) and Shizuoka Performing Arts Park’s Box Theatre, this play won plaudits for its theatre-in-the-round staging and innovative production. It will now be revived at Shizuoka Arts Theatre.
　
Directed by ISHIGAMI Natsuki
Written by MISHIMA Yukio (From “Modern Noh Plays”)
　

Profile

ISHIGAMI Natsuki

Playwright, working mainly in the company “Pepin” from 1999. She works on plays and art-projects expressing peopleʼs alternative behaviors in cities and communities in Japan and abroad. Her recent activities include: directing Stage Art Sector in “Culture City of East Asia 2019 Toshima,” writing and staging “Oesiki Project Tour Performance ʻBEAT,ʼ” being Guest Curator for ADAM Artist Lab in Taipei Arts Festival 2019, directing “Theatre Today” in On Stage Shizuoka (FY2021) and directing “Yoroboshi”(2022), “Otsuya’s Love”(2023) and “The Kitchen of Click-Clack Mountain”(2024) at SPAC.

▼Stage photos from the 2025 performance

Cast

　

Infomation

〈Shizuoka〉

2025
Saturday, 4 October at 1:30 pm
　＊Pre-performance ◆Engrish subtitles available, Nursery service available
Sunday, 5 October at 1:30 pm
　＊Pre-performance
Saturday, 18 October at 1:30 pm
Sunday, 19 October at 1:30 pm
　＊Backstage tuor ◆Engrish subtitles available

At Shizuoka Arts Theatre
　
◆English subtitles
will be available for the performance on 4 and 19 October.
Smart glasses for subtitles are available free of charge. (limited number of devices)
▼Booking form for the smart glasses.
https://forms.gle/QTrjCZyYkgUQ9Kra9
　

〈Numazu〉

Saturday, 31 January 2026, at 1:30 pm
At Numazu Civic Culture Center
　

〈Hamamatsu〉

Saturday, 7 February 2026, at 1:30 pm
At Hamamatsu Hamakita Cultur Center
　
Duration: Within 90minuites（to be determined）
In Japanese

Related Events at Shizuoka Arts Theatre

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance. Free of charge. No reservation required. (In Japanese only)
　
Meet us at Café 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!
　
Pre-performance
A mini performance introducing MISHIMA Yukio
4, 5 October at 12:45 pm
At Shizuoka Arts Theatre, Café Cinderella (2nd Floor)
Approx. 15 minutes / Free, no reservation required
Performed by the students of the Drama Program, Arts Department, Shimizu Minami High School
　
Backstage tour
The technical staff will take you on a special backstage tour.
19 Octorber, Sunday after the performance
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 40 people.
　

Cry room

Shizuoka Arts Theatre and Numazu Civic Culture Center each have a soundproof room where you can watch the performance through a glass window.

〈Ticket Prices〉
・Adults: ¥3,200 per person
・Children requiring a seat (high school age and under): ¥1,100
・Children not requiring a seat: Free
*Tickets are available by phone or at the box office only.
　

Nursery service

Nursery service will be available for the performance on 4 October.
Please contact [ticket@spac.or.jp] by 27 September in advance if you would like to use the nursery service.

【Services available in Japanese only】
Coverage: 6 months to 7 years old
Fee: ¥1,000 per child

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.

　

Ticket Price

4,600 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

●Student Discount:
　［U25 and University students］2,200 yen
　［High school students and under］1,100 yen
　*Please present ID/student ID at door
●Disability discount: 3,200 yen (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

　

How to Purchase

[Shizuoka]
◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:
　17 August at 10:00
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:
　24 August at 10:00

[Numazu, Hamamatsu]
◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:
　2 November at 10:00
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:
　9 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)
　
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 SPAC official website

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

Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.
　
　

Staff

Lighting design: OSAKO Koji
Set design: Nomura Yoshifumi
Sound design: WADA Masashi
Costume design: SATO Rise
Costume arrangement: MAKINO Saho

Assistant director:
KATO Yukio (for the performances in Shizuoka)
TAKEISHI Morimasa (for the performances in Numazu and Hamamatsu )

Stage manager:
OGAWA Tetsuro (for the performances in Shizuoka)
HARAIKAWA Yukio (for the performances in Numazu and Hamamatsu )

Stage: TSUCHIYA Katsunori, HAYASHI Tetsuya
Lighting operation: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya, HIGUCHI Masayuki, MIZUNO Hikaru (for the performances in Numazu and Hamamatsu)
Sound: OTSUKI Minori
Assistant set design: SATO Yosuke, MORI Masashi
Wardrobe: MAKINO Saho (for the performances in Shizuoka), IKEDA Yuna (for the performances in Numazu and Hamamatsu)
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi

English subtitles translation: YAMAGATA Mirei
Production: KITAHORI Ruka, SATO Hiko

Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)

Produced and organized by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Approved by Fujinokuni Arts Festival

[Numazu]
Co-produced by Numazu City Board of Education, Numazu City promotion public corporation

［Hamamatsu］
Hamamatsu Cultural Foundation

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council

　

Click the image above to open the flyer (PDF).
　
Conception, direction,
and scenography
FUKASAWA Eri

　
Music
TANAKAWA Hiroko

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The Menam River Japanese is a grand-scale historical play on the turbulent life of YAMADA Nagamasa, a hero from Shizuoka Prefecture who was given an important post in the Ayutthaya Kingdom (Thailand) at the beginning of the 17th century. The direction by IMAI Tomohiko, artfully interpreting the relationships among people is brilliant.
　
Direction: IMAI Tomohiko
Text: ENDO Shusaku

　

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Cast

ABE
Kazunori

OUCHI
Tomomi

OOTAKA
Kouichi

KATO
Yukio

KONAGAYA
Katsuhiko

SATO
Yuzu

TAKII
Miki

FUSE
Asuka

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MISHIMA
Keita

YAMAMOTO
Miyuki

YOSHIUE
Soichiro

WATANABE
Takahiko

　

Information

2025
18 January, Saturday at 2:00 pm
*Post-performance talk

19 January, Sunday at 2:00 pm
*Guidance for theatre beginners, Backstage tour

15 February, Saturday at 2:00 pm

16 February, Sunday at 2:00 pm

1 March, Saturday at 2:00 pm
*Post-performance talk

2 March, Sunday at 2:00 pm
*Guidance for theatre beginners, Backstage tour

At Shizuoka Arts Theatre
　
In Japanese with English surbtitles
Duration: 135 minutes
*Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.
　

Related Events

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.
18 January, Saturday
1 March, Saturday
Free of charge. No reservation required.
　
Backstage tour
The technical staff will take you on a special backstage tour.
19 January, Sunday
2 March, Sunday
Every day, after the performance
Time: About 30 minutes
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 40 people.
　
Guidance for theatre beginners
SPAC staff 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.
19 January, Sunday at 12:30
2 March, Sunday at 12:30
Time: About 60 minutes
In Japanese
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 30 people.
　

　

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

◆Prior Reservation for Membership begins:
　27 October at 10:00
◆Advance Tickets Sale begins:
　3 November at 10:00
　
◎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 performances, there is a nursery room where parents can watch the program with their infant children.
*A babysitting service is available on 19 January.
*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

Lighting design: OSAKO Koji
Stage design: FUKASAWA Eri
Sound design: WADA Masashi
Costume design: KOMAI Yumiko

Stage manager: OGAWA Tetsuro
Assistant director: MORIBE Rio
Stage: TSUCHIYA Katsunori, YAMAZAKI Kaoru, MORI Masashi
Lighting operator: HANAWA Yuki
Sound: SAWADA Yukino, TAKESHIMA Chisato
Art work: SATO Yosuke
Wardrobe: MAKINO Saho, IKEDA Yuna
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi
English subtitles translation: Steve CORBEIL
English subtitles Operation: OISHI Takako
Production: NISHIMURA Ai, KITAHORI Ruka

Flyer design: ABE Taichi (TAICHI ABE DESIGN INC.)
Promotion photo: HASHIMOTO Hirotaka
　
Produced and organized by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Approved by Fujinokuni Arts Festival

Under the auspices of
Tourism Authority of Thailand, Shizuoka Japan Thailand Association

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

【Director’s profile】

IMAI Tomohiko

IMAI Tomohiko joined the company of Bungakuza in 1992 and left in 2020. In addition to appearing on many stages as an actor, he also works actively on movie and video contents. As a director, he was engaged in works such as “Pandra’s Bell” (by NODA Hideki), “Noises Off” (by Michael Frayn), “The Good Person of Szechwan” (by Bertold Brecht), “Memorial” (by MATSUBARA Shuntaro), and “Ne” (by ONO Kotaro). At SPAC, he directed “Our Town” (by Thornton Wilder) in 2010 and 2013, which evoked deep emotion among the audience. He won the 31st Kinokuniya Theatre Awards, the Best Actor Award of the 9th Yomiuri Theater Awards, and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s 62nd Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists.

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

　

English, Français, Português and Japanese subtitles will be available for all performances.
We lend tablets to customers. (The number of rental tablets is limited.)
▼Booking form for the tablet.
https://forms.gle/WPqkeg9dCHZJmyFu9

▼Booking form for the Related Events in Shizuoka
https://forms.gle/TFu5DV1gC8eXdsmJ9

▲At the Musée du quai Branly (2016) ©Jean Couturier
　
【Director’s profile】

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

MAKIYAMA
Yudai

ABE
Kazunori

YOSHIUE
Soichiro

KONAGAYA
Katsuhiko

SAKAKIBARA
Yuumi

WATANABE
Takahiko

　

【Director Profile】

EMMA（TOYONAGA Junko）

EMMA was born in 1988 in Kobe City. She is a play director. She values creating works with the regional community, through research on the region’s inherent culture and history. For the Setouchi Triennale, she created her work with an organization in Shodoshima for the preservation of Kabuki in agricultural villages and the local residents. She believes that a theatrical production itself is an activity to strengthen the relationships among people and to heal their hearts, and seeks the usability of artistic expressions in society. A joint research project represented by EMMA was adopted as a theatrical experiment by the Kyoto University of the Arts, and she is currently engaged in creation activity including fieldwork on islands. She currently works as a part-time lecturer at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She is also an executive director of the Japan Directors Association.

　

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