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Series"Japanese Drama
- To the Present Day"
January-June 2003 |
| The New National Theatre, Tokyo, has always viewed drama as a
comprehensive art form and presented plays with primary focus placed on their
content. Following "The Age and Memory," the serialized performance of new works
at the Pit for the 2000/2001 season, and "Chekhov: The Work of the Soul" for the
2001/2002 season, the pillar of the 2002/2003 season is the series of plays "Japanese
Drama - To the Present Day." In this series, the NNTT will select excellent plays
written in Japan during the 20th century to examine the heritage of Japanese drama
as part of contemporary drama under the theme "To the Present Day." |
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| Pilgrim |
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| PLAYHOUSE, Tue. 14 January-Sun. 2 February |
| Pilgrim is a popular play by Kokami Shoji, who has managed
to sensitively grasp the changes of the times and skillfully reflected them in
his works. It was first performed by the Daisan Butai (Third Stage) theatre company
in 1989. In this play, Kokami attaches hidden meanings to people looking for a
land of ideals while inserting many comical scenes into the play at just the right
time, and by so doing, he manages to comically depict, albeit from a tragic perspective,
the reality that "Utopia will not make human beings happy." At the NNTT, the 21st
century version of the play will be performed with "to commune" as its keyword. |
| Written and directed by Kokami Shoji |
| CAST: |
Ichikawa Ukon / Tomita Yasuko / Yamamoto Koji / Takaoka Sosuke
/ Sato Masahiro / Amamiya Ryo
and others |
| Advance Tickets: Available from Saturday 16
November, 2002 |
January
2003 |
Tue.
14 |
Wed.
15 |
Thu.
16 |
Fri.
17 |
Sat.
18 |
Sun.
19 |
Mon.
20 |
Tue.
21 |
Wed.
22 |
Thu.
23 |
| matinée |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
No
Performance |
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2:00pm |
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| evening |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
6:00pm |
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7:00pm |
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7:00pm |
January
-February
2003 |
Fri.
24 |
Sat.
25 |
Sun.
26 |
Mon.
27 |
Tue.
28 |
Wed.
29 |
Thu.
30 |
Fri.
31 |
Sat.
1 |
Sun.
2 |
| matinée |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
No
Performance |
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2:00pm |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
| evening |
7:00pm |
6:00pm |
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7:00pm |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
6:00pm |
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| Buoy |
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| THE PIT, Wed. 19 February-Fri. 7 March |
| Buoy is a famous work that is said to be the culmination
of the prewar artistic activities by Miyoshi Juro, who devoted his entire life
to playwriting. The play premiered in 1940. Written in the shadow of the China
Incident, the play deeply moves its audience, portraying in a somewhat lofty tone
the intrinsic vitality and beautiful souls of human beings through the sincere
attitudes of a painter and his wife, struggling to protect artistic beauty and
human dignity, as well as through their trust and love filled life. Through dramatic
verbal expressions, which convey the conflicts of the body and mind of those living
intense lives, the audience will be able to appreciate anew the power of live
theatre. |
Written by Miyoshi Juro
Directed by Kuriyama Tamiya |
| CAST: |
Namase Katsuhisa / Nanase Natsumi /
Kitamura Yukiya / Hasegawa Kiyo / Sasaki Ai
and others |
| Advance Tickets: Available from Sunday 15
December, 2002 |
February
2003 |
Wed.
19 |
Thu.
20 |
Fri.
21 |
Sat.
22 |
Sun.
23 |
Mon.
24 |
Tue.
25 |
Wed.
26 |
Thu.
27 |
| matinée |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
No
Performance |
1:00pm |
1:00pm |
Reserved |
| evening |
6:30pm |
6:30pm |
6:30pm |
6:00pm |
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6:30pm |
6:30pm |
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February
-March
2003 |
Fri.
28 |
Sat.
1 |
Sun.
2 |
Mon.
3 |
Tue.
4 |
Wed.
5 |
Thu.
6 |
Fri.
7 |
| matinée |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
No
Performance |
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1:00pm |
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1:00pm |
| evening |
6:30pm |
6:00pm |
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6:30pm |
6:30pm |
6:30pm |
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| Matchiuri
no Shojo |
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| THE PIT, Tue. 8-Sun. 27 April |
| Premiered in 1966, Matchiuri no Shojo (The Little Match
Girl) is an early masterpiece by the playwright Betsuyaku Minoru, a driving force
behind postwar contemporary drama, and who won the Kunio Kishida Drama Prize in
1967. This play, in which images of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen overlap
with the postwar history of Japan, is full of both absurdity and lyricism, and
has in the past been performed with various interpretations. On the evening of
the New Year's Eve, an unknown woman calls on a middle-aged man and his wife,
claiming that she is their real daughter. Furthermore, a brother who should not
exist appears... |
Written by Betsuyaku Minoru
Directed by Sakate Yoji |
| CAST: |
Terashima Shinobu / Tezuka Tooru / Nagoya Akira / Fuji Sumiko |
| Advance Tickets: Available from Tuesday 11 February, 2003 |
April
2003 |
Tue.
8 |
Wed.
9 |
Thu.
10 |
Fri.
11 |
Sat.
12 |
Sun.
13 |
Mon.
14 |
Tue.
15 |
Wed.
16 |
Thu.
17 |
| matinée |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
No
Performance |
2:00pm |
2:00pm |
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| evening |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
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7:00pm |
April
2003 |
Fri.
18 |
Sat.
19 |
Sun.
20 |
Mon.
21 |
Tue.
22 |
Wed.
23 |
Thu.
24 |
Fri.
25 |
Sat.
26 |
Sun.
27 |
| matinée |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
No
Performance |
2:00pm |
2:00pm |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
| evening |
7:00pm |
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7:00pm |
7:00pm |
7:00pm |
6:00pm |
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Sado
Koshaku Fujin
(Based on Sado Koshaku no Shogai [The Life of the Marquis de Sade]
by Shibusawa Tatsuhiko) |
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DELVAUX, PAUL L'entree de la ville
(c)Paul Delvaux Foundation,
St.Idesbald Belgium & SABAM,
Bruxelles & JVACS, Tokyo, 2003 |
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| THE PIT, Mon. 26 May-Wed. 11 June |
| One of the masterpieces written by Mishima Yukio, Sado Koshaku
Fujin (The Marchioness de Sade) is among the most highly praised postwar plays.
The premiere of the play in 1965 gained the attention of the general public for
its shocking story. Since then, the play has been repeatedly performed in various
forms not only in Japan but overseas as well. Branded with immorality, the Marquis
de Sade climbed the back stairway to Heaven. In the play, six women of different
social statuses and ethical and moral values talk about the character of the Marquis,
delving into the mysteries of humanity. |
Written by Mishima Yukio
Directed by Kaneshita Tatsuo |
| CAST: |
Takahashi Norie / Kataoka Kyoko / Kurano Akiko / Nakagawa Anna
/ Arai Jun /
Taira Yoshie |
| Advance Tickets: Available from Sunday 30 March, 2003 |
May
-June
2003 |
Mon.
26 |
Tue.
27 |
Wed.
28 |
Thu.
29 |
Fri.
30 |
Sat.
31 |
Sun.
1 |
Mon.
2 |
Tue.
3 |
| matinée |
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2:00pm |
2:00pm |
2:00pm |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
No
Performance |
2:00pm |
| evening |
7:00pm |
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7:00pm |
7:00pm |
6:00pm |
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June
2003 |
Wed.
4 |
Thu.
5 |
Fri.
6 |
Sat.
7 |
Sun.
8 |
Mon.
9 |
Tue.
10 |
Wed.
11 |
| matinée |
2:00pm |
2:00pm |
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1:00pm |
1:00pm |
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2:00pm |
2:00pm |
| evening |
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7:00pm |
7:00pm |
6:00pm |
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7:00pm |
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Ticket Prices: Seat A ¥5,250
/ Seat B ¥3,150 [tax included]
(Except the PLAYHOUSE performances of Pilgrim:
Seat S ¥7,350 / Seat A ¥5,250 / Seat B ¥3,150 [tax included]) |
Special discount tickets for all the
4 Works
(S Seat for Pilgrim, and A Seats for the other
3 Works) ¥21,000 [Net Price: ¥23,100]
Advance Tickets: Available from Saturday 16 November,
2002 at 10:00a.m.
Please contact Box Office (03-5352-9999) or Ticket Pia offices
(03-5237-9888) for reservation.
You can get the reserved tickets either at Box Office or
Ticket Pia offices (except convenience stores). |
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