No tears, laughter or lies: Shiro Maeda's "Going On The Way To Get Lost"

Having starting in the theatre and since spread his wings into fiction and television drama, the exceptionally talented Shiro Maeda's eagerly anticipated new play comes to F/T this autumn.

Maeda, leader of theatre company GOTANNDADAN, has won numerous prizes, not just in the theatre world, but across different genre. In 2008 his play "Isn't anyone alive?" - portraying the varying moments of death of a group of people - won the 52nd Kunio Kishida Drama Award. His novel "Natsu no mizu no hangyojin" (Merman in the Summer Water) won the Mishima Yukio Prize for groundbreaking literature, and his NHK teleplay "Okaimono" (Shopping) was also greatly acclaimed.

His unique dialogue and focus on society's weaker souls have created a charming and epic world.

This new play, as you might expect from something called "Going On The Way To Get Lost", sees the playwright and director go...wandering.