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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.”

　

“The universally recognized masterpiece of tragic romance, artfully crafted under the superb direction of Mr. Omar PORRAS.”

Mr. Porras is known for the work he does in integrating the classical with the modern, and the oriental culture with that of the west. He has already shocked and awed audience members with his production of “Don Juan” by using unique and individualized masks to tremendous effect. He also captivated audiences with his production of “Bolivar, Fragments of a Dream” set in the wilderness of South America. Now, the eclectic and eccentric Mr. Porras has the challenge of conjuring up a rendition of Shakespeare’s classic masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet.

As for the performers, not only does the cast list boast a great many veteran actors from SPAC, but it also includes talented english, french and québécois actors from Mr. Porras’s own theatre company, Teatro Melandro. These actors must overcome both linguistic and theatrical boundaries as they strive to create harmony within a production riddled with styles ranging from Latin rhythm to traditional Japanese dance.

While the show is currently only scheduled for a run in Shizuoka, there are already several theaters that have expressed an interest in mounting the show in Europe once this run closes. So, who knows where this fresh, new production might wind up!

Adapted and directed by Omar PORRAS
Original text by William SHAKESPEARE
Japanese text translated by KAWAI Shoichiro
French text translated by Francois-Victor Hugo
Adapted by Marco SABBATINI and Omar PORRAS
Japanese text by YOSHINO Mai

Cast:
OUCHI Yoneji, KIJIMA Tsuyoshi, TAKEISHI Morimasa, TATENO Momoyo, Micari, YAMAMOTO Miyuki, YOSHIMI Ryo, WATANABE Takahiko, Louis FORTIER, Pierre-Yves Le LOUARN, Sophie BRECH

Production: SPAC – Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, Teatro Malandro

Co-production:
Espace Malraux Scene Nationale de Chambery et de la Savoie
Centre National de Creation et de Diffusion Culturelles de Chateauvallon

Sponsorship:
La Ville de Geneve, Departement de la Culture, Republique et Canton de Geneve, Pro Helvetia, Fondation Suisse pour la Culture, La Loterie Romande, Fondation Leenaards, La Fondation pour la promotion de lieux pour la culture emergente.

Language:
In Japanese and French with Japanese subtitle

Blog: Creation of “Romeo and Juliet”

Venue

Shizuoka Arts Theatre
79-4 Ikeda, Suruga-ku Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, JAPAN 422-8005
Please find details on our access page
or contact SPAC ticket center (+81-54-202-3399).

Date

November 24th (Sat) at 16h00, 25th (Sun) at 14h00
December 1st (Sat) at 16h00, 2nd (Sun) at 14h00, 8th (Sat) at 16h00, 9th (Sun) at 14h00

Rendez-vous at Café Cinderella
Let’s enjoy chats with actors just after viewing the show. Join us at Café Cinderella.

Artistic talk session
November 24th (Sat) KAWAI Shoichiro (Tokyo University), Omar PORRAS and MIYAGI Satoshi
December 1st (Sat) ONODERA Syuji (Director) and MIYAGI Satoshi
December 8th (Sat) KASAI Akira (Choreographer) and MIYAGI Satoshi

Special talk session
November 25th (Sun)
“Theatre for Omar PORRAS – Colombia, Europe and Shizuoka”
By Omar PORRAS moderated by YOKOYAMA Yoshiji (Dramaturg, SPAC)

Backyard tour
December 2 (Sun) and 9 (Sun)

Limousin bus

-From Shibuya, Tokyo (1,000 JPY/ one way)
November 24th (Sat), 25th (Sun) , December 1st (Sat), December 8th (Sat)

– From Hamamatsu, Shizuoka (Free of charge)
December 2nd

– From Mishima / Numazu, Shizuoka (Free of charge)
December 9th

*Please find details on our bus page or contact SPAC ticket center (+81-54-202-3399).

Performance day for Junior and High school Students

November 19th (Mon)13:00, 20th (Tue)12:00, 21 (Wed) 13:30, 26 (Mon)13:45, 27(Tue)18:30, 28(Wed)18:30, December 3rd (Mon)12:30, 4th (Tue)13:30, 5th (Wed)13:30, 6th (Thu)11:00／14:30, 7th (Fri)13:30, 10th (Mon) 13:30, 12 (Wed)13:30, 13th (Thu)13:30, 14th (Fri)13:00

Ticket

General 4,000 JPY／University student 2,000 JPY／under High school student 1,000 JPY

*Furthermore, other valuable disccount service are available.
Please check details on our ticket page or or contact SPAC ticket center (+81-54-202-3399).

staff

Assistant director: Fabiana MEDINA
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi
Scenery decoration: Omar PORRAS (Scenography is inspired by interior design of “DAENDO” in Shizuoka Performing Arts Park)
Scenography adviser: Amelie KIRITZA-TOPOR
Scenography: FUKASAWA Eri, SATO Yosuke
Stagehands: ICHIKAWA Kazumi, SATO Kiyoshi, NAGANO Masahito
Composer: Alessandro RATOCI
Sound designer: Emmanuel NAPPEY
Sound: NISHIZAWA Rieko, KOJIMA Yoshimasa
Lighting designer: IWASHINA Takeaki (Saitama Arts Foundation)
Lighting operator: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya
Lighting: MATSUMURA Ayaka
Costume: KOMAI Yumiko, OKAMOTO Takako, IWASAKI Akiko, OKAMURA Eiko, OOKA Mai
Costume adviser: DOMOTO Kyoko
Costume assistants: ICHIKAWA Akiko, SEI Chigusa
Wig and make-up designer : Veronique NGUYEN
Wig and make-up assistant: HATA Jennifer Yuki
Swordfight: SEKI Takanoshin
Interpreter: ISHIKAWA Hiromi, Blandine DELETOILLE
Press & Communication: Sara DOMINGUEZ
Administration: Florence CRETTOL
Production and subtitle: SAEKI Kazato, ITO Naoko
Intern: Taylor HELMBOLDT

Flyer

Blog

Video

Omar PORRAS

 

▲At Musée du quai Branly in Paris(2016) ©Jean Couturier
 

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
Hair and makeup: KAJITA Kyoko

Cast

AKAMATSU Naomi, ABE Kazunori, ISHII Moemi, OUCHI Yoneji, OHTAKA Kouichi, KATO Yukio, KONAGAYA Katsuhiko, SAKAKIBARA Yuumi, SAKURAUCHI Yu, SATO Yuzu, SUGIYAMA Ken, SUZUKI Mariko, DAIDOMUMON Yuya, TAKEISHI Morimasa, TATENO Momoyo, TERAUCHI Ayako, NAGAI Sayako, NOGUCHI Shunsuke, HONDA Maki, MAKIYAMA Yudai, MIYAGISHIMA Haruka, MORIYAMA Fuyuko, YAMAMOTO Miyuki, YOSHIUE Soichiro, YOSHIMI Ryo

Information

2019

8 June, Saturday	14:00	*Guidance for theatre beginners
		*Post-performance talk
9 June, Sunday	14:00	*Nursery service
		*Post-performance talk

In Japanese with English subtitles
Duration：110min（Without intermission）
 
Venue：Shizuoka Arts Theatre
(2-3-1 Higashishizuoka, Suruga-ku Shizuoka City, Shizuoka)

Performances for junior and high-school students

7 June, Friday 13:30
 
 
 

Related events

Post-performance talk
by the artists and guests: after the performance.

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance.

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!

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.
8 June, Saturday 12:30～13:30
In Japanese
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 20 people.

Ticket Price

4,100 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

SPAC Membership Discount
3,400 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

Pair Discount
3,600 yen per person

Group Discount
3,200 yen per person for group of 3 or more

Senior Discount
3,400 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
2,800 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: 20 April at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 21 April 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.
9 June, Sunday
Coverage: Infants aged two and under

Staff

Assistant director: NAKANO Masaki
Stage manager: YAMADA Takahiro
Stage: HARAIKAWA Yukio, KIKUCHI Monami
Sound: MIGITA Soichiro
Light: HISAMATSU Yuka
Wardrobe: KAWAI Reiko

Subtitle translation: Steve CORBEIL
Subtitle operation: OISHI Takako

Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi

Production: OISHI Takako, KEIMI Aoi, NAKAO Eiji

Flyer design: SAKAMOTO Yoichi (mots)

 
Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Co-produced by the Musée du quai Branly

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

＜For performances in Paris＞
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council
Co-operated by ANA

　 　　

Directed by Jean LAMBERT-WILD, Lorenzo MALAGUERRA
Script, adaptation, and dramaturgy by Jean LAMBERT-WILD, HIRANO Akihito, All of casts and workshop participants
Translated by HIRANO Akihito
Music by Jean-Luc THERMINARIAS、TANAKAWA Hiroko

Performed by

Information

■Schedule
2019

16 February, Saturday	14:00	*Shuttle bus from Hamamatsu
		*Post-performance talk
17 February, Sunday	14:00	*Guidance for theatre beginners
		*Post-performance talk
24 February, Sunday	15:00	*Nursery service
2 March, Saturday	14:00	*Backstage tour
3 March, Sunday	14:00	*Backstage tour
9 March, Saturday	14:00	*French subtitle
		*Nursery service
10 March, Sunday	14:00	*French subtitle
		*Backstage tour

Venue: Shizuoka Arts Theatre　access

In Japanese

Performances for junior and high-school students

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

15 February, Friday at 10:30＊／14:30＊
18 February, Monday at 10:30
19 February, Tuesday at 10:30／14:30
20 February, Wednesday at 13:30＊
21 February, Thursday at 13:30
22 February, Friday at 13:30
25 February, Monday at 13:30
26 February, Tuesday at 13:30＊
27 February, Wednesday at 13:30＊
1 March, Friday at 13:30＊
5 March, Tuesday at 13:30
6 March, Wednesday at 13:30
7 March, Thursday at 13:00／18:00＊
8 March, Friday at 13:00
11 March, Monday at 13:30＊
12 March, Tuesday at 14:00

Related events

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance.

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.
2 March, Saturday
3 March, Sunday
10 March, Sunday
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.
17 February, Sunday at 12:30
Time: About 60 minutes
In Japanese
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 20 people.

Marriage hunting at Theatre
3 March, Saturday 11:15
Entry fee: 4,500 yen
Cosponsored by Shizuoka City
TEL: 054-200-4894

Shuttle bus to Shizuoka Arts Theatre

＜From Hamamatsu＞
16 February,Saturday
11:30 Hamamatsu → 13:00 Shizuoka Arts Theatre

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

Ticket Price

4,100 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

SPAC Membership Discount
3,400 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

Pair Discount
3,600 yen per person

Group Discount
3,200 yen per person for group of 3 or more

Senior Discount
3,400 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
2,800 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: 8 December at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 15 December 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 [Shizuoka Arts Theatre] (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.
24 February, Sunday
9 March, Saturday
Coverage: Infants aged two and under

Staff

Stage design: Jean LAMBERT-WILD
Lighting design: Renaud LAGIER
Costume design: KOMAI Yumiko

Stage manager: UCHINO Akiko
Stage: FURUYA Kazumi, MORIYAMA Marie
Lighting operation: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya
Sound: MIGITA Soichiro, HAYASHI Tetsuya, SAWADA Yukino
Art work: FUKASAWA Eri, SATO Yosuke, ICHIKAWA Kazumi, WATANABE Hiroki
Wardrobe: TAKAHASHI Kayako
Costume: SEI Chigusa, Christine DUCOURET, Aimée LAMBERT-WILD
Technical director: Claire SEGUIN, MURAMATSU Atsushi

Rehearsal support: YOKOYAMA Hisashi
Interpretation: HIRANO Akihito, ISHIKAWA Hiromi
French subtitle: HIRANO Akihito
Subtitle operation: KATAOKA Sachiko

Production: Catherine LEFEUVRE, NAKANO Sakiko, KEIMI Aoi

Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Co-production: Théâtre de l’Union – Centre Dramatique National
　　　　　 Théâtre du Crochetan –Monthey

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

　 　 　

A drama that deeply cuts to the truth of the slave trade which caused the disintegration of Africa is recreated as a theatrical musical with a festive atmosphere with Miyagi’s distinct views on life and death. The actors’ voices and bodies and the music together play a hymn to human dignity.

Miyagi and SPAC are privileged to bring out this new program at the request of La Colline – théâtre national, a French theatre that exclusively performs works by modern playwrights. It is the theatre’s first time to have a Japanese company create a program to open a new season. This program is based on the groundbreaking work of a Cameroonian female author living in France, Léonora MIANO. This program was performed for the first time in the world in Paris in September 2018 and will be brought to the Shizuoka Arts Theatre in January 2019.

Text by Léonora MIANO
Translated by HIRANO Akihito
Script and Directed by MIYAGI Satoshi
Music by TANAKAWA Hiroko

Performed by

ⓒSimon Gosselin

Synopsis

The Creator of all living things, Inyi, sees the rise of a new challenge—a “strike” of reincarnating souls refusing to go back into human bodies against the laws of the universe. Inyi gathers the lost souls to ask the reasons for their resistance. There, she hears the cries of the souls that have gone through horrible lives as slaves. Inyi starts on the judgment of the souls that created the causes for their cries.

Information

■Schedule
2019

14 January, Monday	14:00	*Shuttle bus from Tokyo
		*Post-performance talk
19 January, Saturday	14:00	*Shuttle bus from Hamamatsu
		*Post-performance talk
20 January, Sunday	14:00	*Guidance for theatre beginners
		*Nursery service
26 January, Saturday	14:00	*Backstage tour
27 January, Sunday	14:00	*Backstage tour
2 February, Saturday	14:00	*World Cafe
		*Nursery service
3 February, Sunday	14:00	*Backstage tour

Duration：155 minutes (with intermission) 140 minutes
Venue：Shizuoka Arts Theatre　access

In Japanese with English subtitles

Performances for junior and high-school students

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

16 January, Wednesday at 13:30＊
17 January, Thursday at 13:30
18 January, Friday at 13:00＊
22 January, Tuesday at 13:30＊
23 January, Wednesday at 13:30＊
25 January, Friday at 13:30＊
28 January, Monday at 14:00
29 January, Tuesday at 13:30＊
1 February, Friday at 13:30＊
4 February, Monday at 13:30＊
5 February, Tuesday at 13:30
6 February, Wednesday at 10:30＊／14:30＊

Related events

Pre-Performance Talk: Starting 25 minutes before each performance.

Post-performance talk by the artists and guests: after the performance.
14 January, Monday
19 January, Saturday

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.
26 January, Saturday
27 January, Sunday
3 February, Sunday
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.
20 January, Sunday at 12:30
Time: About 60 minutes
In Japanese
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 20 people.

World Cafe
Share what you thought about the performance with other participants!
2 February, Saturday
Time: About 2 hours
In Japanese
Charge：500 yen. Reservation required. Up to 40 people.

Shuttle bus to Shizuoka Arts Theatre

＜From Tokyo＞
14 January, Monday
9:30 Shibuya → 13:00 Shizuoka Arts Theatre

＜From Hamamatsu＞
19 January, Saturday
11:30 Hamamatsu → 13:00 Shizuoka Arts Theatre

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

Ticket Price

4,100 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

SPAC Membership Discount
3,400 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

Pair Discount
3,600 yen per person

Group Discount
3,200 yen per person for group of 3 or more

Senior Discount
3,400 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
2,800 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: 23 September at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 30 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)

●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.
20 January, Sunday
2 February, Saturday
Coverage: Infants aged two and under

Staff

Stage design: Sallahdyn KHATIR
Lighting design: YOSHIMOTO Yukiko
Costume design: KOMAI Yumiko
Prop design：FUKASAWA Eri
Hair and makeup: KAJITA Kyoko

Stage manager: YAMADA Takahiro
Stage: TAKEISHI Morimasa, HARAIKAWA Yukio, ORIMOTO Yumika, YAMAZAKI Kaoru
Lighting operation: HIGUCHI Masayuki, HANAWA Yuki
Sound: YAMASAKI Tomomi, SAWADA Yukino
Art work: SATO Yosuke, WATANABE Hiroki
Wardrobe: TAKAHASHI Kayako, KAWAI Reiko
Assistant director: NAKANO Masaki
Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi
Supervisor: YOSHINO Mai
English subtitles translation: Steve CORBEIL
English subtitles Operation: OISHI Takako
Production: YONEYAMA Junichi, NISHIMURA Ai, OISHI Takako

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

Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, La Colline – théâtre national

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council, Embassy of France/Institut français du Japon
　　

The performance rights of the play Red in blue trilogie by Léonora Miano are represented worldwide by L’Arche, éditeur & agence théâtrale in Paris. www.arche-editeur.com

　

　
A novel written by AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke in his final years is adapted into a performance by TADA Junnosuke.
 
Released after the author’s suicide in 1927, the novel “Spinning Gears” depicts a man writing a novel in a hotel in Tokyo at which he stays for a few days to attend his acquaintance’s wedding ceremony. He keeps working on writing as a way to keep his head together through the fear of destruction and death triggered by the news of his brother-in-law’s death. The main character provokes the image of the author himself, who was also facing the shadow of the approaching death at the time of writing the novel. This is the first SPAC program directed by TADA Junnosuke, a director with increasing domestic and international recognition as the head of theatre company Tokyo Deathlock and Artistic Director at Cultural Centre of Fujimi City, KIRARI FUJIMI.
　　
Conceived and directed by TADA Junnosuke
Original text by AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke

Performed by