Date:February 16th (Wed)
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: the Foreign Correspondents'Club of Japan
Tickets: 2,500 yen
“Axis of Comedy" satirically alludes to President Bush's all-too-famous “Axis of Evil." We had once hoped for world peace after the end of the cold war, but current events inform us otherwise. America's demeanor reminds us of Hans Christian Andersen's “The Emperor's New Clothes." Japan, of course, is tailing behind the emperor like a page holding his imaginary mantle. Events in real life are at times cruel, foolish, and absurd, more tragic and comedic than theatre itself. Sin Titulo's comedy show allows its audience to laugh away some―if only for an evening―of our world's absurdity. |
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・July.2004 SAMUEL BECKETT「PLAY」(@FREE SPACE CANVAS)
・Sep.2004 SAMUEL BECKETT「PLAY」(@FCCJ)
Three characters stuck in an eternal triangle curse each other in hell. A Japanese actress played the wife, a British actress the lover, and a Japanese-American actor the man. At certain moments, actors spoke in their mother tongue. Relationship trouble is a universal theme; the production used music and images to penetrate language barriers―and was well received.
It was a memorable performance, not only for the dramatic cameos created by the cast of three, but also for the fact that the dialogue was a mixture of English and Japanese. Beckett's play s are never easy, but presenting them in two languages is particularly challenging for both actors and audience. In this critic's view, the experiment succeeded.