TSUKAI

Kawasaki Art Center
November 2009

From somewhere far away comes a woman, led by a wild bore, dragging a big piece of luggage (merchandise packed in a cardboard box). A long-time peddler, she now wishes to set up her business here. Beside her job as a vendor, she seems to have another mission to tell people words from war, words from the deceased. Or is maybe she already dead? In the opening long duration of darkness, she seems to pass a mysterious time leaping from the land of the dead to this world. When she is opening her shop, a man and woman (Tochiaki Taiyo and Kamimura Megumi) appear from the underground. The two may be just passers-by, and at the same time, alter egos to the woman peddler, their mission being to speak wartime state propaganda on her behalf. While the woman peddler opens the boxes and puts out her trades, the couple open their boxes to set up their “shop” to deliver their speeches. No sooner are their shops complete, however, than the wild bore ― metaphor of something uncontrollable, an external violence ― rushes to demolish them all. The woman decides to give up her long-time vocation, pass all her assets to the couple and depart again for somewhere far. Then, the couple resumes speaking their words of war.

DIRECTED BY: Yasuki Fujita
TEXT AND CONCEPT BY : Shino Kuraishi
PERFORMED BY: Tomoko Ando Megumi Kamimura Taiyo Tochiaki
MUSIC COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY: Osamu Saruyama Eijiro Takahashi
Masahiro Hiramoto
STAGE MANAGER: Koro Suzuki
ASISSTANT STAGE MANAGER: Koichi Miyata
LIGHTING DESIGNER : Naoki Kinoshita
SOUND DESIGNER : Yuichi Tanaka
COSTUME DESIGNER : Yoko Ando
COSTUME CREATOR: Naoya Watabe
PROPS MASTER : Eijiro Takahashi (mechanical devices)
VIDEO DESIGNER : Yuri Suyama
GRAPHIC DESIGNER : Nobuhiro Yamaguchi Yuri Suyama