Tokyo Heterotopia

Port B / Concept, Direction: Akira Takayama [Japan]
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Tokyo Heterotopia
Date

November 9 (Sat) - December 8 (Sun)

Venue
Various places around Tokyo
Ticket
¥3,500

Encounters with "another Tokyo", a radio tour tracing the lives of Asian exchange students in the city

Following his recent presentation of the Fukushima-inspired twin theatre works "Referendum Project" (F/T11) and "Kein Licht II" (F/T12) at the Wiener Festwochen 2013, Akira Takayama (Port B) now returns to Tokyo for its latest "tour" theatre experience. Participants will receive a guide book and mobile radio with which they will visit a range of public spaces, such as restaurants and parks. At each destination they will hear about the people who used to live at the place, forming a new story of the city, and of the country. These will be encounters with spaces of Asian otherness (heterotopia), the unknown within reality. The work explores ideas of travel and translation, and the narrative text was created out of dialogue between current exchange students, and the translators Keijiro Suga and Tatsuki Hayashi. A unique "radio show" then emerges from this speculation that is transmitted widely.

Akira Takayama
Akira Takayama / Port B

Born in 1969. In 2002, he founded Port B, a loose unit collaborating with artists and others wor...

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Tickets

Tickets on sale from 10/5 (Sat) 10:00

Unreserved seating
Adults: ¥3,500 (Day Tickets: +¥500)
Students: ¥3,000, Under 18: ¥1,000 (advance, on door/ID required)

Available from: F/T Ticket Center (Tel./Online)

Valid for 3 Performance Pass, Overseas Performances Pass, Student Pass, F/T Pass, Pair Tickets

Tickets can be exchanged for a mobile radio and map at the F/T Information booth inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre during F/T13 (11/9-12/8). However, audiences cannot exchange tickets when the theatre is closed (11/11, 11/12).

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Schedule

11/9 (Sat) - 12/8 (Sun)

Tours every tour

Audiences will participate in the performance by moving around the venues by themselves. Please note, however, that opening and closing times vary per site.

Tickets can be exchanged for a tour kit (mobile radio and guide book) at the F/T information booth inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Atrium from November 9 to December 8 (12:00-19:00) (closed on November 11 and 12). After exchanging the ticket, audiences can visit the venues freely.

Access

Various places around Tokyo

Tour Kit Pick-Up:
F/T Information, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Atrium

Tickets

Tickets on sale from 10/5 (Sat) 10:00

Unreserved seating
Adults: ¥3,500 (Day Tickets: +¥500)
Students: ¥3,000, Under 18: ¥1,000 (advance, on door/ID required)

Available from: F/T Ticket Center (Tel./Online)

Valid for 3 Performance Pass, Overseas Performances Pass, Student Pass, F/T Pass, Pair Tickets

Tickets can be exchanged for a mobile radio and map at the F/T Information booth inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre during F/T13 (11/9-12/8). However, audiences cannot exchange tickets when the theatre is closed (11/11, 11/12).

Tickets

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