We Are the Undamaged Others

We Are the Undamaged Others

Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada

Premiere: 2010
Time: 1hr 40min.
Stages : 4
Casts：7 (M3/F4)

Coproduction;
AICHI TORIENNALE / Festival d’Automne / Théâtre de Gennevilliers Centre Dramatique National de Creation Contemporaine/ Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen

History of Tour
2010　 ST spot / Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama, Japan)　※Work in progress
　　　　Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen / Grand Theatre（Groningen）※Preview
　　　　AICHI TORIENNALE 2010 / AICHI ARTS CENTER (Nagoya)
　　　　Festival d’Automne / Théâtre de Gennevilliers (Paris)
　　　　VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival / Teatro delle Passioni（Modena）
　　　　Hebbel Am Ufer, HAU（Berlin）

2011　 KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS / Théâtre National（Brussels）

Moving one step beyond the company's signature style, the use of so-called "hyper-colloquial Japanese and noisy corporeality," chelfitsch has continued to explore a new frontier of theatre. The latest piece is an outcome of the company's tireless endeavor to radically question and creatively update the foundational modes of modern dramatic representation.

The story takes place on August 29th and 30th, 2009, on the second day of which a general election for the lower house seats was held in Japan. Blurring the boundaries between action and narration, the direct and indirect discourse, the performers take turns representing the vague anxiety of a wealthy couple, who are about to buy an condominium in a newly built high-rise. By teasing out the barely visible realities of class divide in today's Japan, the play interrogates the contemporary meaning of "happiness." The script makes a fairly minimal use of simple language while the performers reject a facile recourse to conventionalized bodily representation.