A reading drama written by Kumiko Ueda and directed by Takashi Isshiki. The script for this work was nominated for the 2022 Kunio Kishida Drama Award. I took on the challenge of depicting a structure in which the world of human emotions and the existence and consciousness of non-humans overlap.

Screenplay: Kumiko Ueda
Direction: Takashi Isshiki
Venue: Tokyo Tatemono Brillia Hall
Date and time: June 8th to June 12th, 2022

This original play is set in the garden of the mansion of a Japanese political family, and was written in an attempt to juxtapose a well-worn melodramatic human drama with the consciousness of the plants that surround its characters. Ta. Each actor played two roles, one as a human and the other as a plant. In traditional theater, the audience’s attention is focused on the drama of human emotions, but while the audience is enjoying their joys and sorrows, a completely different time and consciousness of the plants is flowing there, and human time is changing. I tried to see how I could make the theater feel that it was in the time of the planet.However, since the work was written upon request within a commercial framework, I was unable to pursue the theme thoroughly, and I was left with the feeling that I needed to try a different form of expression in order to pursue this concept. . “Project Pneuma,” which has been decided to be an artist-in-residence at KIAC in the summer of 2024, will test the concept of this time in a completely different format, connecting it with media art and incorporating the thoughts and reactions of the viewer into the composition of the work. The aim is to create a drama that includes the conscious world of non-human life forms, transcending cultures and languages.

Starring: Kankuro Nakamura, Mari Hanahusa, Yudai Furukawa, Yoshihiro Nozoe, Sei Ando, ​​Sonha, Rei Asami / Art: Itaru Sugiyama / Lighting: Nami Nakayama / Music Director: Chiharu Shideba / Video: Nobutaku Matsuzawa / Costumes: Mika Tominaga / Movement: Mikiko Kawamura / Composition and arrangement: Chikara Ricky Hazama, Eri Chichibu / Assistant director: Shiori Yoshinaka / Stage director: Kiyoshi Yagi / Planning, production and organization: Umeda Arts Theater / Production cooperation: NHK Enterprises