Toshiki Okada
Current Location
- Performance Performance in Japanese with German surtitles
Toshiki Okada, the Japanese playwright, theatre director and founder of the company chelfitsch, is known for his fragmented idiosyncratic language and disjointed use of everyday gestures and movements. In his latest work ›Current Location‹ he depicts a society in the face of impending disaster torn between a desire for stability and a desire for change. In short episodes, Okada sketches the delicate relations between his characters as they try to deal with increasing states of anxiety and insecurity as well as loneliness in an individualistic society. Playing on different layers of narrative, Okada blurs the boundaries between truth and perception, reality and fiction.
Text, direction: Toshiki Okada
Performers: Luchino Yamazaki, Yukiko Sasaki, Saho Ito, Kei Namba, Mari Ando, Izumi Aoyagi, Azusa Kamimura
Stage: Shusaku Futamura
Music: Sangatsu
Stage management: Koro Suzuki
Sound: Norimasa Ushikawa
Light: Tomomi Ohira
Video: Shimpei Yamada
Dramaturgy: Sebastian Breu
Production management: Akane Nakamura
Company management: Tamiko Ouki
Production: chelfitsch
In collaboration with: precog, Tokyo
Co-production: Doosan Art Center
Commissioned and produced by KAAT (Kanagawa Art Theater) Japan
Supported by: The Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan