Written and Directed by Yukio Shiba
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Streaming: | October 29, 2021, 9 a.m.–November 7, 2021, 11:59 p.m. |
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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).
Video Commentary: Takuo Miyanaga (Producer, mamagoto / Production Coordinator, “In our distance, there is no sorrow.” at F/T17)
Title | In our distance, there is no sorrow. (Theatre East version) |
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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) |
Music | Blaire KO |
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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 |
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.