Kakiseni in special cooperation with Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur brings you HANCHU-YUEI, a theatre collective launched in 2007 and based in Tokyo. Their work was featured in the Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2014 for which we sponsored Kakiseni to visit. It was after watching it there that Ngai Yuen Low of Kakiseni decided that she had to present this work in Malaysia.
Girl X will be performed in DPAC but also in collaboration with Malaysian artists such as Ayam Fared, the “Malaysian version” of Girl X will be performed at the Putrajaya Youth Festival the following week. This invitation is for the original Japanese performance premiering at DPAC.
This middle-length play simply and honestly crystallizes the various separations within Japanese society and views of life formed since the disaster into a theatrical fiction. With only two actors and projections to interact with, this work is the new wave of the up-and-coming young practitioners of Japan.
Creative Team:
Written and directed by: Suguru Yamamoto
Performers: Kazuki Ohashi, Sachiro Nomoto
Art director: Kazuki Takakura
Producer: Momo Sakamoto
Venue: DPAC, Damansara Performing Arts Centre Black Box
Date & Time: 16th Fri & 17th Sat May 2014 Friday 8:30pm (night)
18th Sun May 2014 Sunday 3pm (matinee)
Ticket Price: RM45 Adult (inclusive of RM3 ticket handling charge)
RM33 Students & JFKL members (inclusive of RM3 ticket handling charge)
Group booking: Buy ten to receive one complimentary (Students & JFKL members only)
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About HANCHU-YUEI
A theatre collective launched in 2007 and based in Tokyo. Suguru Yamamoto writes and directs its pieces characterized by critical approaches to the boundary between reality and fiction that question the ways interactions between them occur. The themes are humorously drawn from opposites such as dream and reality, play and play within play, video game (or virtual reality) and the real world, or love and hate. Their recent works involve two-dimensional letters, images, lights and floor plans that are projected, and these elements organically relate to the three-dimensional bodies of performers, which results in 2.5-dimensional theatre. Among other works of theirs is Good-Bye, Japan ? I Want to Sleep in Meditation.
About TPAM
TPAM is the largest international performing arts platform for performing arts in Japan, where professionals get together beyond national and regional borders to exchange information, learn mutually and build network through diverse programs including performances, discussions and meetings. Audiences can witness latest works that professionals want to see / show. We anticipate participants who share interest in and passion for contemporary performing arts. Launched as Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) in 1995. In 2011, it moved to Yokohama, changed the “M” from “Market” to “Meeting” and restarted as “Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama.” At diverse venues in a walkable area in Yokohama, it is held for the 18th time as an international platform for performing arts.
About KAKISENI
Kakiseni.com is Malaysia’s foremost arts platform, producing major arts events such as the annual BOH Cameronian Arts Awards, the Women 100 Festival and the Kakiseni Arts Exchange 2012. At Kakiseni, it’s about believing that good things should be shared. We are convinced more people should have access to the performing arts and we are certain that when people get together to have the same conversation, it makes for an
