Open-air Performing Arts Festival under Mt. Fuji 2023

The Castle Tower

Program Information

Genre / City Theatre / Shizuoka
Dates 3-6 May at 18:45
Venue at Momijiyama Garden Square, Sumpujo Park
Duration 65 minutes
Language In Japanese with Chinese, Korean and English subtitles
Seat Reserved seating
Direction MIYAGI Satoshi
Written IZUMI Kyoka
Music TANAKAWA Hiroko
Production SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center

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Director’s profile

© KATO Takashi

MIYAGI Satoshi
Born in Tokyo in 1959, after studying aesthetics at Tokyo University under ODASHIMA Yushi, WATANABE Moriaki and HIDAKA Hachiro, he founded the KU NA’ UKA theater company in 1990 and soon began staging plays overseas as well as in Japan. As a result, MIYAGI’s work — in which he often fuses contemporary textual interpretations with physical techniques and patterns of Asian theatre — has long been acclaimed both at home and far beyond. Indeed, in 2004 he received the 3rd Asahi Performing Arts Award, and the next year the 2nd Asahi Beer Art Award. Since taking up his position with SPAC in April 2007, MIYAGI has staged many of his own works — including “Medea”, the Hindu epic “Mahabharata”, and “Peer Gynt” — and has invited artists from abroad to present pieces casting a keen eye on the modern world as they see it. In line with his aim to make theatre “a window to the world,” he has also started a new SPAC-based project aimed at the youth of Shizuoka. In 2014, MIYAGI was invited to the Festival d’Avignon, where he received excellent reviews for his open-air version of the Hindu epic “Mahabharata” staged in La Carrière de Bourbon. Following that landmark achievement, the festival extended the honor of inviting MIYAGI to present a Buddhist interpretation he created of the ancient Greek mythological tragedy “Antigone” as its super-prestigious opening program for 2017. On that occasion, which was the first time an Asian play had ever been selected to launch the festival, MIYAGI’s exalted “stage” was the open-air Cour d’honneur du Palais des papes (the Honor Court of the Palace of Popes). By the play’s end, those towering medieval stone walls were ringing out with long and splendid standing ovations welcoming the work’s director and creator along with SPAC’s actors and staff — while more than 60 European media all gave great reviews. In 2018, he received the 68th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize of Drama. Also he recieved “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” from the Ministry of Culture of France in 2018.

Cast / Staff

Directed by MIYAGI Satoshi
Written by IZUMI Kyoka
Music by TANAKAWA Hiroko

Performed by SPAC / Micari, ABE Kazunori, OOTAKA Kouichi, HONDA Maki
ISHII Moemi, KIUCHI Kotoko, KIJIMA Tsuyoshi, SAKAKIBARA Yuumi
SAKURAUCHI Yu, DAIDOMUMON Yuya, TATENO Momoyo, TERAUCHI Ayako
NAGAI Kenji, YAMAMOTO Miyuki, YOSHIUE Soichiro, YOSHIMI Ryo

Costume Designer: TAKAHASHI Kayo
Lighting Designer: OSAKO Koji
Prop Design : FUKASAWA Eri
Original Set Design : KIZ Junpei

Stage Manager: WATANABE Keisuke
Assistant Stage Managers: OGAWA Tetsuro, YAMAZAKI Kaoru, FUJISHIRO Shuhei
Lighting: KOBAYAKAWA Hiroya
Sound: MAKISHIMA Koji (S.C.ALLIANCE), TAKESHIMA Chisato
Assistant set design: SATO Yosuke, YOSHIDA Yuna
Wardrobe: SEI Chigusa
Hair and Makeup: KAJITA Kyoko
Supertitle Operator: OISHI Takako

Technical Director: MURAMATSU Atsushi
Managing Director: NARUSHIMA Yoko
Administrator: OISHI Takako, KITAHORI Ruka, KUGA Haruko

Talk

Pre-performance talk: Starting 35 minutes before each performance

Notice

*Performances will be held even if it rains. As the use of umbrellas is not permitted during a performance, please ensure you have suitable rainwear. You are also advised to bring warm clothes for night performances at this time of year.

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