Yakiniku Dragon

THE PIT

*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.

The second in a series of joint Japan-Korea productions of new works that began with the presentation of Across the River in May in 2002 in Tokyo and Seoul, and in 2005 in Tokyo, on national tour in Japan, and in Seoul. Leveraging this prior experience, which resulted not only in cultural exchange between Japan and Korea, but also a truly outstanding piece of theater, the New National Theatre, Tokyo is taking up the challenge of a new collaboration with Seoul Arts Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The new production will be a collaboration between playwright Chong Wishing and Yang Jung Ung, Korea’s most noteworthy young director.
Yakiniku Doragon is the name of a Korean barbecue restaurant in Japan and through its depiction of the daily life of the Korean family that runs it, offers a look at Japanese-Korean relations past, present, and future with a blend of humor and pathos in a play that also incorporates music. It promises to show a world that only Chong Wishing, himself a Korean resident in Japan, can depict, and one that makes it a very appropriate vehicle for Japanese-Korean communication.