Opera
Ballet & Dance
Drama

NAMIDA_NO_OKA,GINGA_NO_TANI
THE OTHER SIDE
The Pit

<STAFF>
Written by : Ariel Dorfman
Translated by : Mizutani Hachiya
Directed by : Son Jinchek
Set Designer : Horio Yukio
Lighting Designer : Hattori Motoi
Sound Designer : Takahashi Iwao
Costume Designer : Maeda Ayako
Hairstyling and Make-up : Hayashi Yuko
Assistant Director : Kawabata Hideki
Stage Manager : Tanaka Nobuyuki
   
Artistic Director : Kuriyama Tamiya
Presented by : New National Theatre, Tokyo

<CAST>
Kishida Kyoko Shinagawa Torui Chiba Tetsuya  

<PERFORMANCES>
April.
2004
Mon.
12
Tue.
13
Wed.
14
Thu.
15
Fri.
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Sat.
17
Sun.
18
matinée     2:00pm     1:00pm 1:00pm
evening 7:00pm 7:00pm   7:00pm 7:00pm    

April
2004
Mon.
19
Tue.
20
Wed.
21
Thu.
22
Fri.
23
Sat.
24
Sun.
25
matinée No
Performance
  2:00pm     1:00pm 1:00pm
evening 7:00pm   7:00pm 7:00pm    

April
2004
Mon.
26
Tue.
27
Wed.
28
matinée No
Performance
  2:00pm
evening 7:00pm  
Doors will open 45 minutes before the start of each performance.

<ADVANCE TICKETS>
Available from Saturday 21 February, 2004 at 10:00am.
To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am-6:00pm).
Internet ticket reservation available through the following Websites.(Japanese only)
http://t.pia.co.jp/
http://eee.eplus.co.jp/

<TICKET PRICES>
Type Seat A Seat B
Price ¥5,250 ¥3,150
Seat Z(¥1,500) is sold only on the performance day at the Box Office and exclusive Ticket Pia Offices.

THE OTHER SIDEAriel Dorfman, a native of Chile, is a popular playwright who is also world-renowned for his so-called “Resistance Trilogy”: Widows, Death and the Maiden and Reader. His latest work, written for the NNTT’s “Scenes of Men and Women” Series, will soon take the stage at the theatre. Various borders, such as national boundaries, physical walls, discrimination and prejudice, exist in all places in the world and in all ages, upsetting the lives of many people. The Other Side, which identifies the cruelty of barriers that exist in the minds of people, sometimes overriding all else, depicts such borders in allegorical yet realistic style, sharply and confidently revealing the world’s diverse problems with which we are all faced today. Staging this play will be Sohn Jin-chaek, who was the executive director for the opening ceremony of the 2002 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament held jointly by Japan and Korea, and currently the object of keen interest in South Korea. He has directed a wide range of plays and is known for his powerful style, which incorporates traditional Korean performing arts into contemporary drama, and expectations are growing on the dramatic space he will give to the world premiere of this work. The Chilean writer has a keen awareness and unique sense of national boundaries, which Japanese cannot really understand through their daily lives. The South Korean director will meet with talented Japanese actors and actresses to create a “past, present and future of human beings” for the next generation. This work will communicate the universal image of human beings that emerges therefrom to the rest of the world.

The Second in the “Scenes of Men and Women” Series Reflects on the Beauty and Ugliness of Dialogs Using Human Language

Synopsis
The action takes place in a certain country in a certain period. A war has raged between two countries for many years. A husband and wife are involved in confirming the identity of dead bodies at a hut near the border of the two countries. Every time someone is killed, the couple brings their body into the hut to collect pertinent information and bury the body on behalf of the surviving family. When the body of a young man is brought into the room, the wife always examines it thinking that he might be her missing son. The couple has long waited the return of their son, who left home at age 15. Upon discovering that he is descended from a family with ancestry in both countries, the son proclaimed that he would visit his mother’s homeland to trace the roots of his ancestors, but has never returned. Before long, news of a long-awaited cease-fire comes over the radio.
And suddenly, an unknown man breaks through the wall of the hut. In front of the couple, struck dumb with surprise, the man identifies himself as a border guard and starts to divide the room into two in order to establish a new border…


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