NORUHA x Tokyo Festival Symposium “Can we make that our only assignment?” event confirmed!

Toshiki Okada

He is a playwright, novelist, and founder of the theater company chelfitsch. In 2005, he won the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for Five Days in March. Since making his overseas debut with the play in 2007, he has continued to perform his works in over 90 cities around the world. Since 2016, he has also been continuously writing and directing works in the repertory of public theaters in Germany. His works Vacuum Cleaner in 2020 and Donuts in 2022 were selected for the Berlin Theater Festival (10 Notable Works of the Year in German-speaking Theater). As a novelist, he published The End of the Special Time Allowed to Us in 2007. He won the 2nd Oe Kenzaburo Prize. In 2022, he won the 35th Mishima Yukio Prize and the 64th Kumamoto Nichinichi Literature Prize for Broccoli Revolution.


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Zazie Zoo

Formed in 2022. A group of playwrights, directors, and actors who come together to exchange and create their own theatrical works.
Each has the consciousness of being an independent creator, and while the core idea of "play" is somewhere around them, they repeatedly fuse and separate.
As a group, they place the utmost importance on the "individual and the place," and each member, who is knowledgeable about contemporary art, fashion, music, etc., changes the form and style of their performances as if they were changing into the clothes they feel like wearing at the time.

In addition to these, they also focus on performance styles that are brought about by spatial features, such as the Red Tent, Ishinha, and Noh, and attempt performances in a variety of locations, not only in theaters but also at home, in bars, and outdoors.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, people's thoughts about "gathering together" are also changing, and by carefully picking up and observing these trends, we will use theater to reconsider collective lifestyles.

Zazie Zoo

Walkers

The group began its activities in 2018 as a group that produces stage productions.
Rather than being limited to so-called "theater" performances, the project explores from various angles the possibilities of people gathering together, talking, and observing others.


Walkers

NORUHA

It started in 2018 as a theater project to create "a time for multiple artists and performers to be on an equal footing together, a place where they can be where they belong." The project considers everything from the time you visit the theater to the time you leave as "theater," and is engaged in activities that go beyond the presentation of staged works, such as publishing booklets and hosting various events. In 2021, the project established a shared studio called "Enban Nori Ba" as a community to explore new connections related to expression.
The current members are Kishodai Kageyama(playwright, director and representative), hiyorigeta(actor), Shun Hatakeyama(actor) and Suzu Shibuki(advisor/watcher).


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