Toshiki Okada/Chelfitsch
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Sinopsis
Awarded the Kishida Kunio Prize
Five Days in March depicted the everyday activities of a few young Japanese couples over a period of five days spanning March 21, 2003, when the United States began bombing Iraq. It underscored the vague uneasiness felt by Japanese society in the contrasting structure of war in a faraway land and the “everyday” of Japanese youth. With its script mirroring the actual colloquialisms of speech by young Japanese, its use of discourse changing character and space in the middle of an actor’s lines, and its physical expression exaggerating subconscious gestures and other body movements, the work shook the framework of theatre that had thus far been taken for granted to its very foundations, and sent shockwaves through Japan’s contemporary theatre world.
