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19.11. –
21.11.
2021

TOSHIKI OKADA

Eraser Mountain

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© Yurika Kono

Toshiki Okada, for Europe one of the foremost protagonists of Japanese contemporary theatre, is returning to the Wiener Festwochen. This time with the charmingly chaotic arrangement Eraser Mountain. In a collaboration with visual artist and set designer Teppei Kaneuji, Okada explores increasingly unstable relations between people and objects. It all begins with a broken-down washing machine. Rendered redundant, it no longer has a useful purpose and becomes uncontrollable. The performers disappear among brightly coloured tubes, balls and nets. Taken out of their everyday context, they all create an unmanageable commotion. An egalitarian landscape comprised of materials, projections, performers and sound emerges, radically challenging humankind’s presumptuous interventions in nature. For Okada, the starting point for Eraser Mountain was the man-made raising of the Rikuzentakata coastline in the wake of the 2011 tsunami. With urgency and poetry, he explores the possibility of humankind’s presence in a world not based on hierarchies. The Anthropocene? That’s so passé!

An event by Wiener Festwochen hosted by Tanzquartier Wien

Time

20:00–22:20

Location

TQW Halle G

Duration

140 Min

Price

-

Additional Information

Tickets sind ausschließlich bei den Wiener Festwochen erhältlich: festwochen.at Japanisch mit englischen und deutschen Übertiteln
  • Dates

    • FRI
      19.11.

      Toshiki Okada

      Eraser Mountain

      20:00 – 22:20

      TQW Halle G

      Additional Information

      Tickets sind ausschließlich bei den Wiener Festwochen erhältlich: festwochen.at Japanisch mit englischen und deutschen Übertiteln

    • SAT
      20.11.

      Toshiki Okada

      Eraser Mountain

      20:00 – 22:20

      TQW Halle G

      Additional Information

      Tickets sind ausschließlich bei den Wiener Festwochen erhältlich: festwochen.at Japanisch mit englischen und deutschen Übertiteln

    • SUN
      21.11.

      Toshiki Okada

      Eraser Mountain

      20:00 – 22:20

      TQW Halle G

      Additional Information

      Tickets sind ausschließlich bei den Wiener Festwochen erhältlich: festwochen.at Japanisch mit englischen und deutschen Übertiteln

  • Artist Bio

    Toshiki Okada

    born in 1973 in Yokohama, is a dramatist and director. In 1997, he established the theatre company chelfitsch; he writes and directs all of its productions. His work is concerned with profound cultural changes and their effects on the surrounding society, especially in contemporary Japan. His unique methodology which blends quirky texts in colloquial Japanese with extraordinary physicality has profoundly influenced an entire new generation of Japanese artists and met with international acclaim. Moreover, Toshiki Okada has also published prose texts including short stories and scientific works on the theory of theatre. His productions were shown at festivals and art centres as well as by theatres in 70 cities on three continents and have won several awards, including the prestigious Kishida Kunio Drama Award for Five Days in March (2005). Since the 2016/2017 season, Toshiki Okada also directs regularly for Münchner Kammerspiele, most recently the play The Vacuum Cleaner (2019), which was honoured with an invitation to the Berliner Theatertreffen 2020.
  • Credits

    Text, Regie
    Toshiki Okada

    Bühne
    Teppei Kaneuji

    Mit
    Izumi Aoyagi, Mari Ando, Yuri Itabashi, Takuya Harada, Makoto Yazawa, Leon Kou Yonekawa

    Kostüm
    Kyoko Fujitani (FAIFAI)

    Licht
    Masayoshi Takada (RYU)

    Ton
    Raku Nakahara (LUFTZUG)

    Video
    Shimpei Yamada

    Technische Leitung
    Koro Suzuki

    Inspizienz
    Chikage Yuyama

    Regieassistenz
    Nagara Wada

    Englische Übersetzung
    Aya Ogawa

    Producer
    Tamiko Ouki (precog)

    Associate Producer
    Miyuki Tanaka

    Produktionsleitung
    Megumi Mizuno

    Produktionsassistenz
    Nanami Endo

    Grafik
    Teppei Kaneuji

    Special Webdesign
    HAUS

    Produktionspartner
    precog co., LTD.

    Executive Producer
    Akane Nakamura

    Executive Officer, Publicity, Branding Direction
    Kao Kanamori

    Senior Producer
    Kumi Hiraoka

    Chief Producer
    Mai Hyodo

    Administration
    Yuka Morita

    Projektmanagement
    Hitomi Sato

    Projektassistenz
    Tomo Setou

    Produktion
    chelfitsch

    Koproduktion
    Eraser Mountain Wiener Festwochen, Kyoto Experiment, Festival d’Automne à Paris, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt a. M.)

    Koproduktion Eraser Forest
    21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa)

    Kooperation Eraser Forest
    CONNELING STUDY/YAMABUKI FACTORY, Steep Slope Studio, Kyoto City University of Arts

    Mit Unterstützung von
    Kyoto Art Center Artists-in-Studios program

    Kopräsentation
    Tanzquartier Wien –Dieses Projekt besteht aus zwei Versionen, Eraser Mountain für das Theater und Eraser Forest für das Museum (eröffnet im Februar 2020). Uraufführung Oktober 2019, Kyoto Experiment.