In today's IT-oriented society, there is a need for places where people can meet in person, on the basis of diverse values, and where they can interact and exchange not only information but also physical energy. This performance is part of a project in which four creative theatre companies in Toga, Shizuoka, Toyooka and Tottori work together to create a new work in collaboration with the next generation of theatre artists. This piece makes us think about the future in the resonance between the spiritual crisis experienced by the post-war Japanese people and the chaos in the present.
Written by MIYOSHI Juro
Directed by ITO Masanori
Performed by ARAI Keita (DAIRAKUDAKAN), KOHAMA Akihiro (Theatrical company "Short-Range Man Road Missile"/chernozem), YAMAGUCHI Mayu (nanado)
Sound Design: KANEKO Shoichi (DISCOLOR Company)
Lighting Design: ADACHI Naomi
Photograph: bozzo
Video Footage Record: INOGUCHI Koichi
Story
This is a conversational play about two men and a woman buried alive under dim light.
In a cave dug during the war, there is barely any light, no food and no idea how long the air will last.
Why did these three individuals, who had lived through the Second World War, have to come here and die?
And where will their voices reach?
Message from the director
The play In the Womb, which will be performed at the festival, was written by the playwright MIYOSHI Juro in 1949.
Miyoshi wrote the play as his overall response to Japan's defeat in the war, and it tells the story of how each one lived, or failed to live, under extreme circumstances.
To be honest, it is a weighty and suffocating play.
On the other hand, today, we are tormented by the earthquake, the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is even the imminent threat of war.
I hope, in the theatre, you experience how "life" used to be, take a deep breath when you leave the theatre, and think about the "life" you will have in the future.