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Marebito-no-Kai
Director:Masataka Matsuda（playwright/director）About Company
Founded in 2003 under the mission of exploring possibility of theater and realized the first piece “Island Style Vibrating Organ" written by Masataka Matsuda in May, 2004. Having its base at Kyoto Art Center and atelier GEKKEN, small theater in Kyoto, five works have been come into being. The company searches the reality of today by laying the world of unordinary.
Company Concept
- Mission
We create in order to explore the reality of theater. And we take it all the way. The reality of theater doesn’t mean the depiction of our day-to-day real world. Even seemingly outrage way of acting can be a form of reality as long as it is true to the reality on stage. Our mission is to inverteraly observe human inherence and throw not-yet-known-facts at our audience. Naturally, our ceration process as well as the outcome, the work, are to be mystic. However, they are not to destroy the world in exsistence but to deconstruct and reconstruct it.- What theater can do?
Due to the rapid advance of information network that now covers the whole world, every event on the earth, to a greater or lesser, including not only politics but also ordinary people’s lives, are possible object of sucrtiny. Even crimes become consious of being watched. In other words, every act on the earth has become “theaterized”. We are to explore the role of theater in the age of this time and to pursue what only theater can present. And we wish the trait to be more than its mere physical characteristic which is “live”. We believe in what can't be replaced with other art forms - nothing but theater can make it happen.- Approach: one shall not be affected by the streotypes and not haste to interpret occurences
We are to ceize the mind that tends to judge and then interprete incidents in haste according to the stereotype ideas. We accept things incomprihensable as the way it is. We create in order to lay out a way to rock the structure in which people easily yield to the powerful out of their desparation for the sense of belonging.- Collaboration
Our creation process is a battle field among the cast, rather than presided over by a playwright or a charismatic spirit. All the member take part to embody ideas, not slaved to the texts.
History
August, 2003
Founded.
May, 2004
“Island Style Vibrating Organ” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda
Venue: atelier GEKKEN *The 4th atelier GEKKEN Theater Festival entry pieceJune, 2004
“Island Style Vibrating Organ” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda
Venue：Komaba Agora Theater *sponsored by Komaba Agora TheaterSeptember, 2004
“Kagero” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：atelier GEKKEN
February, 2005
“Kagero” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda
Venue：Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts and Culture)
*The 1st New KYOTO Art Award entry pieceJuly, 2005
“Princess A” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda
Venue：atelier GEKKENAugust, 2005
“Princess A” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：Komaba Agora Theater
*Komaba Agora Theater Summer Summit entry pieceMay, 2006
“Paraiso Note” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：atelier GEKKEN
September, 2006
“Auto da fe” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：AI-HALL, Itami
December, 2006
“Auto da fe” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：Theater Tram, Tokyo
September, 2007
“Cryptograph” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：Miami Theater, Cairo/Egypt
*The Cairo International Festival for Experimental TheaterOctober, 2007
“Cryptograph” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：atelier GEKKEN
December, 2007
“Cryptograph” written and directed by Masataka Matsuda Venue：Nine Theater, Beijing/China
*The Beijing International Theater Festival
Down-stream Garage, Shanghai/China
Masataka Matsuda (Born 1962)
Matsuda is one of the emerging playwrights/director from Kansai region. His works are receiving more and more attention today.
He started his career in drama while a student at Ritsumeikan University. He formed Jiku Gekijo company in Kyoto in 1990, and wrote and directed all the works for the company until it was disbanded in 1997. He worked as a freelance after that and wrote for and co-produced with Seinendan and Bungakuza.
He joined Marebito-no-Kai in May, 2004 and started to direct again as well as continuing to write for the company. He is outstanding for his ability to apply everyday setting and unflinching language to depict the unconscious fetters hidden in the human unconscious.
He has received numerous awards, including OMS Drama Award 1994 for “Saka no Uenoie (The house on the hill)”, OMS Drama Award and KISHIDA Kunio Drama Award in 1996 for “Umi to Higasa (Sea and Parasol), Yomiuri Drama Award for “Tsuki no Misaki (Moon Cape), Yomiuri Literature Award in1998 for “Natsu no Sunanoue (On the sand of the Summer)” and Kyoto Cultural Encouragement Prize in 2000. He is a guest professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Schedule
2008. SeptemberDictee
Original auther/Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, written and directed by Masataka Matsuda,
Venue: studio21/Kyoto University of Art and Design (Kyoto, Japan),
organized by Kyoto Performing Arts Center2009. March;Voice Prints Gramophone
Written and directed by Masataka Matsuda, organized by Marebito-no-Kai
Venue: AI HALL (Itami, Japan), Tokyo
Contact
Kaen Bld.2F, Hokoden-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-0902 JAPAN
E-mail info@marebito.org WEB http://www.marebito.org/
