Five Days in March (Sangatsu no Itsukakann)

Five Days in March
(Sangatsu no Itsukakann)
Premiere: 2004 ＠Shinagawa Sphere Mex, Tokyo
Time: 1hr 20min.
Stages/Acts: 2/10
Casts：７ （M5/F2）
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada

［History of Tour］
2004 13rd Gardian Garden Theatre Festival
　　　/Shinagawa Sphere Mex, Tokyo,
　　　KAVC Gallery at Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe

2006 Super Deluxe, Tokyo

2007 Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media StudioB, Yamaguchi
　　　IMS Hall, Fukuoka
　　　KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS2007/Kaaitheater studio's, Brussels
　　　Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, Paris,
　　　Museum of Art, Kochi
　　　Performance of 30th Anniversary of The National Museum of Arts
　　　/ The National Museum of Arts,Osaka/
　　　Exhibisio ROPPONGI CROSSING2007:FUTURE BEATS IN
　　　JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART/ Mori Art Museum, Toyko

2008 esplanade, Singapore,
　　　Salzuburg Festival/ republic, Salzburg,
　　　Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff
　　　Concarino, Hokkaido
　　　Festival d'Automne/ Theatre2Gennevilliers,Paris,
　　　Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
　　　Nam June Paik Art Center,Seul

2009 Southern Theatre at Walker Art Center,Minneapolis
　　　Performance Works, Vancouver
　　　Studio Theater at On the Boards,Seattle
　　　Wexner Center for the Art,Columbus
　　　Japan Society, New York
　　　U. of Missouri St. Louis,St, Louis
　　　Museam of Comtemporary Art, Chicago

2010 HongKong Arts Festival, Hong Kong

The groundbreaking and modern work of chelfitsch Theater Company has made it one of Japan's most talked-about theater companies in recent years. Characterized by deceptively insubstantial narrative, super-colloquial dialogue, and exaggerated fidgeting-turned-choreography, the work perfectly captures the irony and impotence felt by the Generation Y in Japan today. The work overcomes language barriers, garnering the company wide acclaim in premier theater festivals and venues throughout Europe and Asia, including Brussels, Paris, Cardiff, Salzburg, and Singapore. 
Five Days in March is the prestigious Kishida Kunio Drama Award-winning play by Toshiki Okada. In the days before the U.S. declares war on Iraq in March 2003, two Japanese urban hipsters meet at a rock concert and are swept into a one-night stand that turns into five days of continuous sex. Oblivious to the imminent invasion, the slackers obsess over the details of their love affair. The piece unfolds as actors slip in and out of character while casually narrating and playing out scenes. This work takes the Japanese “quiet theater” movement [the naturalistic and analytic theatre that forms the cornerstone of contemporary Japanese theater of the 1990s] to another level with remarkable choreography that is completely disconnected from the content of the hyper-real conversational tone of the dialogue.