Okada gives a voice to Japan's 'lost generation' of 25-35 year olds. His first play charts five nights in a love hotel in March 2003, as the Japanese protested against the US invasion of Iraq.
The second – Okada's latest work to date – focuses on the young unemployed. Precisely choreographed, they still brim with a universal, contemporary humanity.
Freetime
Text, conception and direction, Toshiki Okada
Scenography, Torafu Architects Inc.
Music, Atsuhiro Koizumi
Lighting, Tomomi Ohira
Sound, Norimasa Ushikawa
With Taichi Yamagata, Luchino Yamazaki, Tomomitsu Adachi, Mari Ando, Ito Saho, Kei Namba
Produced by the Chelfitsch Compagny – Toshiki Okada
Co-produced by the Wiener Festwochen ; KunstenFestivaldesarts ; le Cent Quatre, Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Japan Arts Fund and The Saison Foundation
Thanks to Yokohama Arts Platform ; Steep Slope Studio ; Kitakyushu ; Performing Arts Center ; Super Deluxe
With the support of Nomura, the Franco-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation, and the Foundation for the study of the Japanese language and culture, working under the aegis of the Foundation of France and the Onda
Thanks to the support of Japan Airlines
Within the context of the 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese relations
November 25 to November 29
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