SPECIAL
A special edition booklet has been created for Tokyo Festival 2022!
Tokyo Festival 2022 to get underway shortly!
To make this art festival held in the Ikebukuro area of Toshima-ku, Tokyo more accessible and enjoyable, we have created a Tokyo Festival 2022 special edition booklet. Besides various program highlights, it offers a wealth of content to make the Tokyo Festival even more fun and interesting, including interviews with performers, and a gourmet guide to Ikebukuro in map form.
From mid-September, a limited quantity will be distributed in various locations around Tokyo, and you can also download it here. Please take a look!
Tokyo Festival 2022 special edition booklet contents
The cover will feature Shuji Onodera, the director of the Outdoor Theatre Production “Wuthering Heights”, which starts Monday, October 17, as well as actor Hairi Katagiri, who appears in the production. This program highlight is being staged at GLOBAL RING THEATRE (Ikebukuro Nishi-guchi Park Outdoor Theatre), close to Ikebukuro station, where the two share a friendly conversation.
Here is where an “extraordinary spectacle appearing in everyday life” is set to unfold!
The first feature in the booklet is on the Outdoor Theatre Performance “Wuthering Heights,” directed by Onodera and starring Katagiri, who also appear on the cover.
The Outdoor Performance program, which began in 2018, simultaneously creates opportunities for people who have never been the theatre to have contact with stage performance for the first time and livens up the neighborhood. As well as introducing noteworthy points of this production, which is a bold reconstruction of the literary classic “Wuthering Heights,” dubbed one of the world’s three greatest tragedies, the feature includes Onodera and Katagiri discussing the appeal of outdoor theatre and the novel “Wuthering Heights.”
This is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy full-fledged theatre at the “one coin” admission price of 500/100yen. Why not make your debut as a theatregoer?
Enjoy combining Tokyo Festival 2022 with a tour of the Ikebukuro area!
You’ll find an introduction to the route of IKEBUS, a bright red bus that tours around the Ikebukuro area, as well as local gourmet recommendations by festival performers and officials. Enjoy everything about Ikebukuro this fall!
Parents and children can have fun, experience arts from overseas, and be amazed by the different forms of physical expression. The Tokyo Festival 2022 offers a rich lineup of programs to stimulate body and soul. Experience a variety of expressions – new sensations, new discoveries, new experiences - and discover a ‘new’ something of your own!
Actor Kuranosuke Sasaki as an “old miser”!
The production “The Miser” opens at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Playhouse from Wednesday, November 23. The great Romanian director Silviu Purcarete and renowned actor Kuranosuke Sasaki team up again for the first time in five years to take on “The Miser,” masterpiece of masterpieces by Molière, one of France’s greatest playwrights who was born 400 years ago this year.
Kuranosuke Sasaki, who plays Harpagon, the work’s protagonist, tells us about the appeal of Purcarete's directing style, the compelling aspects of the play "The Miser," and reminiscences about the production’s venue, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
Let’s all do the Mayim Mayim dance on Friday, September 23!
For Tokyo Festival 2022 we’ll be offering the “New Mayim Mayim” dance event as part of the festival’s grand opening, a big dance bash which anyone is free to join, featuring jaunty reworkings of folk dances including the Israeli Mayim Mayim. Walk-ins are most welcome on the day, so please come join the fun!
*The festival will go ahead with measures in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus.