THEATER/DANCE
Geigeki Selection
Overview
Stage productions are selected by The Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Geigeki), with Hideki Noda as artistic director. In late June, a new showcase program, Geigeki Eyes Spinoff Story will feature five drama groups who will play opposite each other in short plays at Suitengu Pit. From September on, Geigeki Plus Talk will be staged to further explore production, expand horizons, and encourage the development of the performing arts not only through stage performances but also through “talks.”
In addition, from January through March, English version will travel to NY, London, and Hong Kong and return to Tokyo.
In addition, from January through March, English version will travel to NY, London, and Hong Kong and return to Tokyo.
Schedule
June 2011 to March 2012
Venue
Suitengu Pit, etc.
Organizers
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) and Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Programs
Geigeki Eyes Side Story: “20-year well-being”
The Geigeki Eyes program is intended to present talents in which our theatre has a keen interest. In FY 2009, five groups to watch presented their new play or replay. In FY 2010, the number of participant groups was increased, and a total of eight groups participated in the first half and the second half of the year. Up-and-coming talents were brought together. In FY 2011, though our theatre is closed for one year and five months due to renovation work, aiming at further developing young players and generating new audiences, we will run a new showcase of Geigeki Eyes, in which five groups compete in short plays at Suitengu Pit. All groups will have an equally allotted time of 25 minutes and use the same setting. Under these limited conditions, each group will express the heart of its individuality. Each of the five groups will present a new play. The subtitle “20-year well-being” means you can look forward to the future of theatre in Japan over the next 20 years after seeing these five groups of talent, and 20 years from now, you can take pride in having watched these plays.
Schedule
June 24 (Fri) to June 27 (Mon), 2011
Schedule
June 24 (Fri) to June 27 (Mon), 2011
Geigeki Plus Talk: Intergenerational playwrights reading - “Self-produced performance”
Our new program, Geigeki Plus Talk, is intended to further explore production and expand horizons not only through stage performances but also through talking, so as to promote the development of the performing arts.
Two playwrights of different generations will read their own works. Accordingly, this program is subtitled “self-produced performance.” It is hoped that playwrights reading their own plays can provide audiences with quite different discoveries and pleasures to readings by professional actors or actresses.
Playwrights improve their expressiveness and establish their own styles during their long careers. By contraposition of the words of various generations, each expression can be exposed and its individual charm revealed. This is the basic idea of the reading program.
In the intergenerational playwrights reading ? “Self-produced performance,” playwrights of different generations will read their own works and talk about the feelings and impressions of each other’s words.
Two playwrights of different generations will read their own works. Accordingly, this program is subtitled “self-produced performance.” It is hoped that playwrights reading their own plays can provide audiences with quite different discoveries and pleasures to readings by professional actors or actresses.
Playwrights improve their expressiveness and establish their own styles during their long careers. By contraposition of the words of various generations, each expression can be exposed and its individual charm revealed. This is the basic idea of the reading program.
In the intergenerational playwrights reading ? “Self-produced performance,” playwrights of different generations will read their own works and talk about the feelings and impressions of each other’s words.
THE BEE World Tour
THE BEE premiered in London in 2006. The London version and Japanese version played simultaneously in 2007 in Japan, which earned high praise and swept up drama awards. The performance will be restaged with a tour overseas.
