FUKUNAGA Takeshi is directing and performing this play. He won the Excellent Director Award at the Toga Theater Competition 2018, and presented “Yoroboshi” by MISHIMA Yukio at the BIRD Theatre Festival 13 in 2019. The cast members are young talented actors who are based in Tokyo metropolitan area.

“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” I have seen or heard these kind of sayings everywhere. If you have ever felt the sense of loss, you would know what I would want to say. That feeling isn’t what you want to go through many times. However, people certainly lose something at some point. Every time we lose something, we try to fill in the sense of loss with convincing reasons or some kind of substitutes. But in fact, we can never really fill in the sense of loss. Sometimes, we want to neither accept it nor give it up. This is a piece that allows you to find official reasons to overcome the sense of loss. You need various official reasons, so there are many productions for that. This time, we will present two pieces out of them in a row.

Spacenotblank is a collective that comes and goes vertically and horizontally between metaphysics and physics. They present “Love Dialogue Now”, a story that depicts “all about encounter”. This piece won the Grand Prize at the 8th Sengawa Theatre Concours. They recreate this work after two years for this age of the Covid-19 pandemic and the new encounter at the BIRD Theatre.