FESTIVAL/TOKYO

In the moment of death human beings become completely equal. Playwright and director Shiro Maeda, leader of Gotandadan, discovers the grotesque, splendorous and humorous aspects of human existence in the words of people facing their near death. The first theatre ever surely was an imitation of death. Maybe being alive is just an imitation of dying?

Shiro Maeda presents two indisputable stories that one reverses another. His well known minimal stage delivers devastating struggle against crisis which all human relate to. The 52nd Kishida Award-winning play holds your breath away until stunning ending.