The Dark Master VR
"Virtual reality version of Niwa Gekidan Penino’s masterpiece “The Dark Master”!
Perennially popular work performed continuously in Japan and overseas appears in a new guise for 2020 "
Story
You’re hungry.
You wander around and find an old Western-style restaurant in a dimly lit alley.
As soon as you open the door, you pick up the distinctive and enticing smells of fried and stir-fried food.
The restaurant has a peculiar-looking chef-owner.
This sort of place invariably serves delicious food.
You decide to order your favourite croquette set meal from the menu.
You wait a while, and then it’s ready.
It looks great, and you dig in.
The piping-hot croquettes are irresistible; the way the crispy just-fried coating gives way with a crunch to a mouthful of steaming sweet potato filling with pleasantly peppery ground meat.
For a while you give yourself up to the pleasure of eating. But somehow you feel you are being watched. The grinning owner comes up to you and places a small earpiece in your ear.
He says: “From today you’re in charge of everything here.”
What do you do?
Performance (VR video)
Koichiro FO Pereira
Kiyobumi Kaneko
Bobmi Hidaka
Credit
Original story: Caribu Marley
Illustrations: Haruki Izumi
Enterbrain “Otona no Manga” (“manga for adults”) collection
Adapted and directed by Kuro Tanino
Design: Takuya Kamiike
Lighting: Masayuki Abe (LICHT-ER)
Sound: Koji Sato (Sugar Sound),Shintaro Matsumiya (catSSound)
Video: Nobuhiro Matsuzawa
VR system: Tsuyoshi Nomura, Ichiro Tanaka, Shun Mizutani, Toru Takami
Stage direction: Masaya Natsume, Toshihiro Nishino
Director’s assistant: Haruka Kikuchi
Publicity design: Kosuke Yamashita
Production assistant: Hatsumi Kakinoki
Production: Chika Onozuka
Schedule
Style of performance: Virtual reality performance
Schedule: Friday,October 9,2020 – Sunday,October 18,2020
| 10/9（Fri） | 10/10（Sat） | 10/11（Sun） | 10/12（Mon） | 10/13（Tue） | 10/14（Wed） | 10/15（Thu） | 10/16（Fri） | 10/17（Sat） | 10/18（Sun） | |
| 11:00 | ● | ● | ● | No Performance | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||
| 13:00 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||
| 15:00 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||
| 17:00 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||
| 19:00 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
Ticket
Ticket fee
Adults: 3,500 yen
High school students and below: 1,000 yen (applicable days and ticket numbers limited, ID required)
Tickets on sale:
Advance tickets on a first-come-first-come basis (Peatix only)
Saturday, September 5 from 10:00 until Friday, September 11, 19:00
On general sale
Saturday, September 12 from 10:00
How to Book
Ticket reservation required, payment taken on the day
On the day of the performance, we will take payment and give out tickets at reception.
Reception is open from 30 minutes before to 10 minutes before each performance.
Please note if you have not come to reception 10 minutes before the performance starts, we will cancel your reservation.
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Box Office
TEL: 0570-010-296 (10:00-19:00 except when theatre is closed)
*Cannot be used with certain telephones
Business hours: 10:00-19:00 except when theatre is closed
Tickets not available from the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Box Office webpage
Peatix
https://darkmastervr.peatix.com (member registration required)
Organizer
Organizer: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre,Tokyo Festival Executive Committee (Toshima City, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture [Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre & Arts Council Tokyo])
Inquires
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Box Office
Phone: 0570-010-296
(10:00am to 7:00pm except for closed days)
