The acclaimed actor ABE Kazunori will be invited to join this performance. MISHIMA's distinctive, gorgeous words and aesthetic world!

Artist/Company
BIRD Theatre Company TOTTORI [From Tottori, Japan]
Date
Saturday, 21 September, 16:00-
Sunday, 22 September, 16:00-
Saturday, 28 September, 16:00-
Sunday, 29 September, 16:00-
Running Time
50 minutes
Venue
The Assembly Hall Theatre
Price
Adults: 2,800 yen*
under 18: 500 yen
Preschool-aged children: Free
*Including one drink voucher for use at the Café
Mobile subtitles
Mobile devices for Japanese or English subtitles available
About the programme開く

'Sotoba Komachi' is a representative work in the Modern Noh Plays. The work is so MISHIMA who loved gorgeous and luxurious beauty, and deals with ideological ideas such as eternity and the absolute. Komachi, once admired as a beautiful woman at the Rokumei Hall, has become old. A young poet, getting closer to death, dreams of the peak of life in love. The young man's overly naive longing for love ignites the old woman's self-esteem. It is human to wish for eternity and the absolute, to know its impossibility, and still to wish for it; that is what human nature is like. This piece is a beautiful and bittersweet depiction of such karma.

Synopsis開く

An urban park at night. A beggar-like old woman and a young poet meet.

The poet writes romantic poems about young couples who gather in the park at night. The poet takes an interest in the old woman.

The two debate about love, life, and death, and eventually, the old woman leads them back to the Rokumei Hall in the Meiji era, where they become Captain FUKAKUSA, a beautiful man, and Komachi, a beautiful woman.

Cast/Staff開く

Text: MISHIMA Yukio

Direction: NAKASHIMA Makoto

Performed by ABE Kazunori, SAITO Yoriaki, KOSUGE Hiroshi, OTA Shinnosuke, NAKAGAWA Rena, GOTO Shiori, MATUSHITA Honoka, TAKAHASHI Hitoshi

Scenic Designer: NAKASHIMA Makoto

Sound manager: HARA Nobuhiro(Ohara Kikaku)

Lighting Designer: OSAKO Kouji

Lighting Technician: INAKA Masahiro

Host/Grant開く

【Host】BIRD Theatre Company TOTTORI

【Grant】gency for Cultural Affairs Grant for the Promotion of Culture and the Arts (Project for Promoting the Functional Enhancement of Theatres, Music Halls, Etc.)/ Japan Arts Council/ FY2024 Tottori Prefecture Subsidy for Art Promotion and Regional Revitalisation Projects through the Creation and Dissemination of Excellent Theatre

【Support】Tottori Prefecture/ Tottori City/ Tottori Prefecture Board of Education/ Tottori City Board of Education/ The Non Profit Organization 'The Council for Area Development and Management of Insyu Shikano’ / The Tottori University Art Center Affiliated to the Faculty of Regional Sciences/ The Shin Nihonkai Shimbun Co.,Ltd./ Furusato Shikano Co.