Tag: japan society

  • don’t be chelfitsch, see 5 days in march!

    chelftisch Theater Company Five Days in March U.S. Debut Tour Written & directed by Toshiki Okada at Japan Society 333 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017 Phone: 212.832.1155 Thursday, February 5, 7:30 PM Friday, February 6, 7:30 PM Saturday, February 7, 7:30 PM more info at japansociety.org Five Days in March is “making a…

  • Okada-san ke Ichi-ban!

    I have heard great things about this company. And I saw a DVD of their work and really, really liked it. This is, like, the hippest Japanese alternative, experimental, contemporary theater happening. they do this crazy weird fidgeting/gesture movement stuff with what (apparently) is kind of like, heightened colloquial language ala Richard Maxwell. Though it…

  • i know this much is true

    I’ve heard that this show is absolutely spectacular!   true Takayuki Fujimoto (dumb type) x Takao Kawaguchi (dumb type) x Tsuyoshi Shirai     “[true] reminds us of the overwhelming sense of living in contemporary society.”  Asahi Newspaper How do we really know what is true? Welcome to the surreal world of true, where our assumptions about time,…