Performing Arts

mamagoto

The mamagoto theatre company performs the works of playwright and director Yukio Shiba (born 1982 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, winner of the 2011 Aichi Prefectural Arts Encouragement Prize). Depicting a universal world in scripts that meticulously mine the inner workings of the ordinary everyday, and production effects that import ideas from outside the theatre, mamagoto make theatre more familiar - like the children's game of "playing house" after which they are named - and richer. They performed in the Aichi Triennale 2010 festival week. This time they will create a work that both children and adults can enjoy. Based on an extended stay in Shiba's home prefecture of Aichi, it portrays a future that children living in the present might imagine, a future that those children should eventually reach, a future that continues even after those children become adults, and ...; "adult time" and "the adult figure" as an extension of "child time." A work in which children and adults once children examine "today" anew from their respective perspectives on the axes of "fiction" and "work."

  "Ayumi" 2011
(Morishita studio)
photo : Tsukasa Aoki
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