{"id":17096,"date":"2020-04-03T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/?p=17096"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:00:11","slug":"notice-of-cancelation-of-the-world-theatre-festival-shizuoka-2020-and-antigone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/?p=17096","title":{"rendered":"Notice of cancelation of the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2020, and \u201cAntigone\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Notice of cancelation of the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2020, and the Mt Fuji World Theatre Festival \u201cAntigone,\u201d and postponement of the STRANGE SEED SHIZUOKA street-theatre festival.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, SPAC has decided to cancel this year\u2019s World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2020, and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/en\/antigone_2020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antigone<\/a>,\u201d which were both scheduled for the Golden Week holiday period in May. In addition, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangeseed.info\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STRANGE SEED SHIZUOKA<\/a> street-theatre festival is being postponed.<\/p>\n<p>These moves follow its decision in mid March to withdraw foreign programs from the World Theatre Festival 2020 to restrict the spread of COVID-19 between countries in line with the World Health Organization\u2019s March 11 declaration of a worldwide pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the latest decision, the General Artistic Director MIYAGI Satoshi\u2019s productions of \u201c<a href=\"\/?page_id=3148\">Mary Poppins with her Upside-down Umbrella<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/en\/antigone_2020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antigone<\/a>,\u201d will no longer be staged as part of the World Theatre Festival or the Mt.Fuji World Theatre Festival, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>We are very sorry to have to make these announcements, which have been made unavoidable by the spread of COVID-19 in Japan and a request by the national government to avoid all travel that is not urgent or necessary.<\/p>\n<p>SPAC staff will be contacting everyone who booked tickets with a view to refunding monies between April 4 and May 10.<\/p>\n<p>But all is not completely lost because \u2014 having thought about what we could do under these circumstances \u2014 SPAC has decided to present a <b>World Theatre Festival on the Cloud 2020<\/b> during the period when the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2020 would have run.<\/p>\n<p>With this event, we will aim to connect directly, through theatre, with the rest of the world in the most effective way available in the circumstances. Please check <a href=\"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SPAC\u2019s website<\/a> for further details soon.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, however, we look forward to the pandemic ending as soon as possible. And, though we can&#8217;t gather together at a theatre just now, let&#8217;s avoid mental isolation by sharing our love of performing arts in different ways.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/festival-shizuoka.jp\/en\/about\/#message\"><b>\u25b7 Message from MIYAGI Satoshi<\/b><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/?p=17079\"><b>\u25b7 How to obtain refunds for tickets<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice of cancelation of the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2020, and the Mt Fuji World Theatre Festival \u201cAnt&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spac.or.jp\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}