One sunny summer day, I met a very strange, fluffy creature, which looks like a hedgehog walking with two legs. This story is about a big challenge and the adventures of Yabi, a boy from the Kui Tribe who lives near Mudguide Water lake with his friends. Original Story: “Yabi” on the Shore by Kaho...Continue Reading

An authentic Czech puppetry performance of ‘The Three Musketeers’ comes to Japan for the first time. The show has won 22 awards and mesmerised children and adults around the world, traveling all the way from Czech Republic with its own tent theatre. In The Three Musketeers, a young man called d’Artagnan from the countryside in...Continue Reading

The story is about the journey of a small ‘Tugboat’ traveling down the river and time, featuring sand animation. It’s an amazing tale of one day in his life. Along with the Tugboat we will go to the harbor and meet the big ships, and we will see his dreams about going to far-off lands....Continue Reading

This story tells about a winner and a loser. Cain and Abel love each other, because they are brothers, and like all the brothers, they play, fight, help each other; they often stay alone, but then they look at each other, laugh and get close again. Then, like in everyone’s life, a test arrives, a...Continue Reading

Morio Kazama has been touring with his one-man stage play nationally and internationally every year for the last 21 years. It won the Grand Prize at the ACA (Agency for Cultural Affairs) National Arts Festival, the Best Actor of the Yomiuri Theatre Awards and the Backers Theatre Encouragement Prize with his trilogy in 2003. In...Continue Reading

We believe to know, who the others are. And, of course, who we are ourselves. But how do we actually know? And what classifies us and the others as parts of a certain group? And who belongs in these groups and who does not? Expressing emotions, convictions and beliefs through the body, as well as...Continue Reading

Yamato, is a young man who cannot feel hopeful to live. Tamatsu, is a girl whose being itself brings happiness to others. When these two meet, their deadly love sparks. It is the forbidden love which cannot be known by anyone. One night, however, their love is revealed… What will happen to the two, torn...Continue Reading

Whiteout, a blizzard of falling snow that severely reduces visibility. This is a heartfelt dance theatre piece, for children and young adults, which gives resonance to the complexities of bi-racial relationships. Informed by personal experiences from her marriage and as the mother of bi-racial children, acclaimed choreographer Natasha Gilmore (Little Red, Tiger and Tiger Tale),...Continue Reading

“Survival was the only thing you could care about.” This performance is about the elderly ladies born and raised in Okinawa who experienced the Battle of Okinawa in their childhood. It also features a big band of elderly gentlemen who used to perform in the dance halls of Koza (Okinawa City) where authentic jazz music...Continue Reading