FESTIVAL/TOKYO

Summary

Marebito theater company interviews and reports on actual places and residents, including that creation process in the final work, such as its previous "Hiroshima-Nagasaki" series on the cities that have experienced unprecedented calamities. Heading to Fukushima a year on from the disaster in Tohoku, the journey is paralleled by the Greek tragedy "Antigone".

The eponymous heroine defied the law to bury the body of her brother, who died rebelling against the state. She is a symbol of someone that challenges the lines between enemy and ally, the dead and the living. This work purports to show a fictitious touring theatre group taking a performance of "Antigone" to Fukushima, re-examining the ambiguity in the social fissures and demarcations exposed after 3.11.

The "performance tour" will start from the summer, appearing in the real world with its traces visible online through Twitter and a blog. At the F/T12 performance the actors will then show themselves before an audience for the first time. Via numerous texts, audio performances, and acting, the "journey" will be recreated, an experiment in diverse reportage mixing truth and falsities, opening up a route to unknown landscapes and words.