"Three Tragedies" Vol.2
Tatoeba No ni Saku Hana no Yo ni
from Andromache

PLAYHOUSE

*Seat Z(¥1,500): Sold at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date. One ticket per person. No phone reservations.
*Same day student tickets (50% off, except Seat Z): Sold at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date. One ticket per person. No phone reservations. Students must bring a valid student ID.

Euripides’ Andromache portrays the tragedy that arises out of human love. Racine’s Andromaque takes this a step further, giving a scathing depiction of the egotism that can be displayed in pursuit of such love. The present work, based on these two predecessors, presents in even more bold and vivid form the love and hate between people, and especially between men and women, that has changed not at all in the two thousand years that separate us from the ancient Greeks. Written by Chong Wishing, who won the Kishida Kunio Drama Award for The Terayama, and the Japan Academy Award for Best Screenplay for his work on Begging for Love, and under the direction of the most noteworthy woman director, Suzuki Yumi, it combines explosive humor with immense tragedy, giving birth to a completely new Andromache.

In the summer of 1951, Maki An—a young Korean woman—works at a rundown dance hall in a port town of Japan while mourning for her fiancé lost in the war. Yasuo Abe, the manager of a rival dance hall—and a man deeply embittered by his own wartime experience—is smitten by this woman whom he sees as a kindred spirit, but who stubbornly refuses his attentions. Meanwhile, his own fiancée, Akane, is torn between her enduring love for Yasuo and her hatred at his faithlessness. And in the background lurks Naoya, whose sense of obligation to Yasuo is driving him to keep a close eye on Akane…