Opera
Ballet & Dance
Drama

Ijin no Uta from Antigone
2007/2008 SEASON PLAY
10th Anniversary Festival

"Three Tragedies" Vol.3
Ijin no Uta
from Antigone

PLAYHOUSE


STAFF
Written by : Tsuchida Seiki
Directed by : Kaneshita Tatsuo
     
Artistic Director : Uyama Hitoshi
Produced by : New National Theatre, Tokyo

CAST
Doi Yuko, Junna Risa,
Kiba Katsumi, Kobayashi Juichi, Suma Kei

PERFORMANCES
November / December
2007
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Doors will open 30minutes before the opening of the performance.

ADVANCE TICKETS
  Available from Monday 24 September, 2007 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://pia.jp/t
http://eplus.jp/

TICKET PRICES (with tax)
Seat
S
A
B
Z
Price(yen)
7,350
5,250
3,150
1,500
*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.

Basing themselves on the original work by Sophocles, a variety of modern playwrights including Jean Anouilh, Jean Cocteau, and Bertolt Brecht have tried their hand at modern interpretations of Antigone. This bold adaptation, based on both Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, is by Tsuchida Seiki, a cartoonist who has won acclaim in many circles outside the field of manga for his depiction of the lives of awkward but pure characters in works such as Onaji Tsuki wo Miteiru (Under the Same Moon), made into a feature film, and Yomawari Sensei (Mr. Night Watchman), currently being serialized. He dynamically integrates the fateful events surrounding poetry and song with the “blood curse” implicit in Greek tragedy to great dramatic effect. The production is by Kaneshita Tatsuo, a director with his own unique, hard-boiled worldview. Kaneshita, himself an accomplished writer, supports this genius of the comics world in giving birth to a new legend.

Synopsis

Folk songstress Sato and her husband, Shamisen artist Shinji Yodoe, travel Hokkaido as itinerant performers with daughters An and Mei. But the otherworldly allure of Sato's voice leads to her murder, in a fit of jealous rage, in a fishing village. An, who is witness to the violence, loses both her memory and her ability to sing. Some years later, An is supporting her now senile father, while Mei repeatedly travels to the city to work as a street performer as she struggles to make a new life as a singer. One day a record-company producer takes her to meet the president of his company…a man it seems, who already knows a lot about Sato.


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