MEDIATHEK

In den vergangenen zehn Jahren hat Toshiki Okada ein “Theater der Entfremdung” entwickelt, bei der die Feinheit und Zerbrechlichkeit der Form die Kraft der philosophischen und gesellschafts- politischen Reflexion nicht relativiert, sondern steigert. In Japan zählt der Regisseur und Schriftsteller zu den führenden Stimmen einer Künstlergeneration, die sich mit der nach der Katastrophe von Fukushima einsetzenden Apathie auseinandersetzt. Seine aktuelle Arbeit, “Ground and Floor”, eine Koproduktion mit dem HAU Hebbel am Ufer, erzählt erstmals eine “echte Geschichte”. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine junge Frau, schwanger, die sich fragt, an welchem Ort sie ihr Kind auf die Welt bringen soll. Vielleicht besser nicht in Japan? Toshiki Okada arbeitet hier mit Gestaltungs- momenten des Nō-Theaters. Obwohl nicht frei von Humor, legt der Regisseur immer mehr die Angst, das Misstrauen und das Verlangen nach Bestätigung im Innern seiner Charaktere frei.

Japanisch mit deutschen und englischen Übertiteln.

// Credits //

Text und Regie: Toshiki Okada

Performer: Taichi Yamagata, Makoto Yazawa, Yukiko Sasaki, Mari Ando, Izumi Aoyagi

Musik: Sangatsu

Bühne: Shusaku Futamura

Dramaturgie: Sebastian Breu

Kostüme: Yuko Ikeda (Luna Luz)

Technik: Koro Suzuki, Kazuhiko Nakahara

Ton: Norimasa Ushikawa

Licht: Tomomi Ohira

Video: Shimpei Yamada

// Produktion //

Produktion: Akane Nakamura

Produktions- leitung: Tamiko Ouki

Produktion: chelfitsch und precog (Tokyo), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brüssel). Koproduktion: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Festival d’Automne à  Paris, Les Spectacles vivants ' Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), La Bâtie ' Festival de Genève, KAAT, Kyoto Experiment, De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Dublin Theatre Festival, Théâtre Garonne, Onassis Cultural Center (Athen).

Unterstützt durch: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

Eine Koproduktion von House on Fire mit Unterstützung des Kulturprogramms der Europäischen Union.

// Autor //

Born in Yokohama in 1973. Playwright / Director / Novelist. He formed the theater company chelfitsch in 1997. Since then he has written and directed all of the company's productions, practicing a distinctive methodology for creating plays, and has come to be known for his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and unique choreography. In 2005, his play “Five Days in March” won the prestigious 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award. He participated in Toyota Choreography Award 2005 with “Air Conditioner (Cooler)” (2005), garnering much attention. His collection of short stories titled "The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed" was published in February 2007 and awarded the Oe Kenzaburo Prize. He has been on the judging panel for the Kishida Kunio Drama Award since 2012. In 2013, his first book on theatrology was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha. He has widened the sphere of his activity to art exhibitions as well. He displayed a video installation titled "Four Unremarkable Things You See at Train Stations" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2014, handled curation duties for some of the exhibition space for a special exhibit at the same museum in 2015, and produced new works for the 2016 Saitama Triennale. Meanwhile, he is engaged in the creation of works by the new technique of "video theater." He was in charge of the script and direction for "Wakatta-san no Kukki" in the children's program at the Kanagawa Arts Theater in the early part of 2015. In the same year, he staged "God Bless Baseball," his first play based on Japanese-Korean collaboration, as the opening program at the Asian Culture Center, the biggest cultural complex in all of Asia, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. In 2016, he prepared and staged "in a silent way" as a performance project jointly with dancer and choreographer Mirai Moriyama under the curation of Yuko Hasegawa at the Setouchi Triennale. In the same year, he began a commission to direct works in a repertory program at the Munich Kammerspiele, one of foremost public theaters in Germany, for three consecutive seasons.

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