Worried about the language barrier? Here is our guide to finding the right performance to see!
No language required
These performances feature music, dance, and other elements with little or no dialogue — or otherwise can be enjoyed without understanding the language.
“Festival Fukushima! @Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park”
Direction: PROJECT FUKUSHIMA! + Seinoshin Yamagishi
October 31st, November 1st
Zombie Opera “Danse Macabre”
Taro Yasuno (concept, music) + Miho Watanabe (dramaturgy) + Noriyuki Kiguchi (stage design)
November 12th – November 15th
Asia Series Vol.2: Myanmar “Roundabout in Yangon”
Program B: Thxa Soe (live music)
November 13th – November 15th
Performed in English
Goethe-Institut Korea + NOLGONG “Being Faust – Enter Mephisto”
Concept: Peter Lee
November 19th – November 22nd
“All the Sky Above the Earth (Wendy’s Syndrome)”
Text, Direction, Stage Design, Costumes: Angélica Liddell
November 21st – November 23rd
Also performed in Spanish, and partly in Chinese, Norwegian, and French.
Performed in German
Goethe-Institut Korea + NOLGONG “Being Faust – Enter Mephisto”
Concept: Peter Lee
November 19th – November 22nd
Performed with English surtitles
Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Direction: Satoshi Miyagi
Text: William Shakespeare (Translation: Yushi Odashima)
Embellishment: Hideki Noda
Music: Hiroko Tanakawa
October 31st – November 3rd
“The Monk”
Direction: The Maw Naing
November 18th – November 23rd
“All the Sky Above the Earth (Wendy’s Syndrome)”
Text, Direction, Stage Design, Costumes: Angélica Liddell
November 21st – November 23rd
Also performed with Japanese surtitles.
Performed in Spanish and partly in English, Chinese, Norwegian, and French.
“God Bless Baseball”
Text, Direction: Toshiki Okada
November 19th – November 29th
Also performed with Japanese and Korean surtitles.
Performed in Spanish
“All the Sky Above the Earth (Wendy’s Syndrome)”
Text, Direction, Stage Design, Costumes: Angélica Liddell
November 21st – November 23rd
Performed in Korean
“God Bless Baseball”
Text, Direction: Toshiki Okada
November 19th – November 29th
Performed in Japanese and Korean (with Japanese, Korean, and English surtitles).
Cultural Centre of Fujimi City, KIRARI FUJIMI “A Typhoon’s Tale”
Kiwoong Sung (text) + Junnosuke Tada (direction)
November 26th – November 29th
Performed in Japanese and Korean (with Japanese surtitles).
Performed in French
Théâtre de la Ville-Paris “Rhinocéros”
Text: Eugène Ionesco
Direction: Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
November 21st – November 23rd
Performed in French with Japanese surtitles.
Gintersdorfer/Klaßen “Logobi 06”
November 26th – November 29th
Performed in French with consecutive Japanese interpretation.
Performed in Japanese only
“Blue Tarp”
Text, Direction: Norimizu Ameya
November 14th – November 15th, December 4th – December 6th
Chiten + kukangendai “Mystery-Bouffe”
Text: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Direction: Motoi Miura
Music: kukangendai
November 20th – November 28th
The symposium “The Future of Arts Festivals” will be held in Japanese. The series of F/T Talks will be held in Japanese, though certain events will also be held partly and entirely in English and Chinese with Japanese interpretation. The Grotowski screenings are in Polish with English subtitles. Please check the F/T Talks page for more information.
Selected pre- and post-performance talks also take place in languages other than Japanese. Please check the F/T news blog for further details.
English synopsis available
Zombie Opera “Danse Macabre”
Taro Yasuno (concept, music) + Miho Watanabe (dramaturgy) + Noriyuki Kiguchi (stage design)
November 12th – November 15th
“Blue Tarp”
Text, Direction: Norimizu Ameya
November 14th – November 15th, December 4th – December 6th
Chiten + kukangendai “Mystery-Bouffe”
Text: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Direction: Motoi Miura
Music: kukangendai
November 20th – November 28th
Théâtre de la Ville-Paris “Rhinocéros”
Text: Eugène Ionesco
Direction: Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
November 21st – November 23rd
Gintersdorfer/Klaßen “Logobi 06”
November 26th – November 29th
Cultural Centre of Fujimi City, KIRARI FUJIMI “A Typhoon’s Tale”
Kiwoong Sung (text) + Junnosuke Tada (direction)
November 26th – November 29th
Performed in Myanmar language
Asia Series Vol.2: Myanmar “Roundabout in Yangon”
Program A: The Maw Naing (performance, installations, video works), Nyan Lin Htet (theatre performance)
Program B: Thxa Soe (live music)
November 13th – November 15th