FESTIVAL/TOKYO

Masataka Matsudamarebito theater company

Playwright, Director, Leader of marebito theater company

Born in Nagasaki in 1962. In 1990 he formed the Kyoto-based theatre company Jiku Gekijyo and was its director until 1997. For his Nagasaki trilogy using local Kyushu region dialect he garnered much attention, receiving the Kishida Kunio Drama Award in 1997 for "Sea and Parasol" and the Yomiuri Theater Grand Prix Drama Award for "Tsuki no misaki" in 1997. He disbanded his company in 1997, working as a freelance director and writing plays for Seinendan, Bungakuza and others. He wrote the script for the film "Utsukushii natsu kirishima" (2004), directed by Kazuo Kuroki, who later also directed the film version of Matsudaʼs play "The Blossoming of Kamiya Etsuko". He formed marebito theater company in August 2003. Its output includes "Voiceprints City - Letters to FATHER" (2009), "Park City" (2009) and "Hiroshima-Hapcheon: Doubled Cities in Exhibition" (F/T10). He currently teaches at Rikkyo University's College of Contemporary Psychology (Body Expression and Cinematic Arts course).

marebito theater company

Theatre company formed in 2003 to explore new potential in the stage arts. Led by Masataka Matsuda, who writes and directs its work. Its first performance was "Shima-shiki shindo kikan" (Island-Style Vibration Organ) in 2005. It also works overseas, including its 2007 work "Cryptograph" that toured to Cairo, Beijing, Shanghai and Delhi, and "Hiroshima- Hapcheon: Doubled Cities in Exhibition", which was a co-production with Korea.