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In our distance, there is no sorrow. (Theatre East version)

Written and Directed by Yukio Shiba

Theatre

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Streaming: October 29, 2021, 9 a.m.–November 7, 2021, 11:59 p.m.
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About

The playwright and director Yukio Shiba has established a strong reputation for highly individual yet universal theatrical portrayals of humanity. His award-winning musical play “Our Planet” was the allegorical tale of both a planet and a girl. This is a meditation on the theme of distance and the Great East Japan Earthquake, which Shiba was far away from when it occurred.

Two plays unfolded simultaneously with the same cast across two adjacent theatre spaces, serving as a metaphor for the distance that causes the mental divides and various boundaries separating us. As they watched, the audiences in each theatre found their imaginations drawn to the other story happening nearby and how the two plays form a single overall narrative.

This was a co-production between F/T and Taipei Performing Arts Center (open 2022).

Photo:Hideaki Hamada

Video Commentary

Video Commentary: Takuo Miyanaga (Producer, mamagoto / Production Coordinator, “In our distance, there is no sorrow.” at F/T17)

Video Credits

Title In our distance, there is no sorrow. (Theatre East version)
Venue Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Theatre East)
Recording date October 9, 2017
Duration 76 min.
Languages Japanese
Subtitles English subtitles
Original production page In our distance, there is no sorrow. (F/T17)

Creative

Music Blaire KO
Costumes TRAN
Video Documentation Kuan-Yu Chen
Stage Design Takuya Aoki
Sound Daisuke Hoshino (Sound Weeds Inc.)
Lighting Ryoya Fudetani
Video Mamoru Kano (WOW / Futurismo Zugakousaku), Hironobu Sone (Tohoku Institute of Technology), Takuya Inagaki (WOW), Yuki Saito (WOW)
Taiwan Coordinator Yukio Nitta
Presented by Festival/Tokyo, mamagoto
Supported by The Saison Foundation
A Festival/Tokyo and Taipei Performing Arts Center co-production
Supported by the Ministry of Culture (Taiwan)
In cooperation with the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government; Taipei Culture Foundation

Artist Profiles

Yukio Shiba

Playwright, Director (mamagoto)
Born in Aichi in 1982, Yukio Shiba is a member of the directing department of Seinendan. He also teaches at Tama Art University and Shikoku Gakuin University. He was a Saison Foundation Junior Fellow in 2010–11, 2012–13, and 2015–16. In 2010, he won the 54th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for “Our Planet.” His work has been performed all over Japan at such festivals as the Aichi Triennale and Setouchi Triennale. He publishes his scripts for free on the website of his company, mamagoto.