Playwrite/director: Toshiki Okada
Performer: Taichi Yamagata, Shoko Matsumura, Mari Ando
Izumi Aoyagi, Riki Takeda, Makoto Yazawa, Yukiko Sasaki

[Date & Venue]
14th(sun) ~ 26th(fri) Feb. @STspot access
1st(mon) ~ 10th(wed) Mar. @YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART access

[Price]
adv.3000yen / door 3500yen / student 2500yen

[Ticet reservation & Inquiries]
Please contact us with date, the number of tickets and your name at info@precog-jp.net or 03-3423-8669.

TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD 2005 - Nextage (Japanese Only):
http://www.toyota.co.jp/

Hebbel am Ufer - HAU:
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/

Playwrite/director: Toshiki Okada
Performer: Taichi Yamagata, Mari Ando, Saho Ito,
　　　　　　Kei Namba, Riki Takeda, Fumie Yokoo

[Date & Time] May. 2010
7th(Fri) 20:00 Start
8th(Sat) 14:00 Start／18:00 Start
9th(Sun) 14:00 Start／18:00 Start
10th(Mon) 20:00 Start
11th(Tue) 20:00 Start
12th(Wed) 14:00 Start／18:00 Start
14th(Fri) 20:00 Start
15th(Sat) 14:00 Start／18:00 Start
16th(Sun) 14:00 Start／18:00 Start
17th(Mon) 20:00 Start
18th(Tue) 20:00 Start
19th(Wed) 14:00 Start

[Venue]
Laforet Museum HARAJUKU(Tokyo) access

[Price]
adv.3500yen / door 4000yen / student 3000yen

[Ticet reservation & Inquiries]
Please contact us with date, the number of tickets and your name at info@precog-jp.net or 03-3423-8669.

May 25~29 KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS (Brussels/Belgium)
http://www.kfda.be/

June 5~6 Artístico Alkantara (Lisbon/Portugal)
http://alkantara.pt/index.php

June 9~10 FESTIVAL THEATERFORMEN BRAUNSCHWEIG (Hannover/Germany)
http://www.theaterformen.de/

6/16~19 Wiener Festwochen (Vienna/Austria)
http://www.festwochen.at/

6/22, 24~25 Festival de Barcelona Grec (Barcelona/Spain)
http://www.barcelonafestival.com

August 23 Mladi Levi Festival (Ljubljana/Slovenia)
http://www.bunker.si/e_mladilevi.htm

August 25~27 Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg/Germany)
http://www.kampnagel.de/

August 29~31 Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich/Switzerland)
http://www.theaterspektakel.ch/

August 20~21　Nooderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen
（Groningen/Netherland）※Preview
http://www.noorderzon.nl/index.php?speech=uk

September 24~26 AICHI TRIENNALE（Aichi, Japan）
http://aichitriennale.jp/

October 2~5 Festival d'Automne (Paris/France)
http://www.festival-automne.com/

November 20~23　ART COMPLEX 1928（Kyoto, Japan）
http://www.artcomplex.net/ac1928/

『We Are the Undamaged Others』
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada
Performed by Taichi Yamagata　Shoko Matsumura　Mari Ando　Izumi Aoyagi　Riki Takeda　Makoto Yazawa　Yukiko Sasaki

October 8~10 Festival d'Automne (Paris/France)
http://www.festival-automne.com/

October 13~14 VIE Scena Contemporanea (Modena/Italy)
http://www.viefestivalmodena.com/

October 18~20 Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin/Germany)
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de

September 11~12　”BIRD” Theatre Festival　（Tottori, Japan）

October 27~31 The Arts Centre (Melbourne/Australia)
http://www.theartscentre.com.au/

November
Manila/Philippines, Bangkok/Thailand

Who Knows We Are Not Injured like the Others?
Premiere: 2010
Time: 1hr 40min.
Stages : 4
Casts：7 (M3/F4)
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada

Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech
Premiere: 2009
Time: 1hr 10min.
Stages : 3
Casts：6 (M2/F4)
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada

2010 LAFORET MUSEUM HARAJUKU（Tokyo）
　　　KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS ／BRONKS (Brussels)
　　　Artístico Alkantara／TEATRO NACIONAL D. MARIA II (Lisbon)
　　　FESTIVAL THEATERFORMEN BRAUNSCHWEIG／LOT Theater (Hannover)
　　　Wiener Festwochen／Halle G im MuseumsQuartier (Vienna)
　　　Festival de Barcelona Grec／Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona）

“Air Conditioner” (30-minute version) stylishly and idiosyncratically represents a seemingly mundane conversation between two co-workers. Earlier critics compared the performance to dance because of the actors’ peculiar movement. As if to corroborate their interpretation, Okada participated in "Toyota Choreography Award 2005: Discover the Choreographer for Next Generation" with this piece, making it to the finals. Thus taking the contemporary dance scene by storm, Okada and his drama company eloquently articulated　a unique concept of the body that defied the conventional idea of "choreography." 

In 2009, “Air Conditioner” was reproduced as a 70-minute piece titled “Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech,” and was premiered at Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin. This updated and expanded version was highly acclaimed as one of Toshiki Okada’s masterpieces, drawing attention from numerous drama/performance art festival directors throughout Europe. Newspapers and magazines in Berlin praised the piece, saying that it “showed the possibility of performing arts that approaches the morbid core of the society,” and that it is “an exceptional dance piece.” Check out this outstanding new piece by chelfitsch, a globally acclaimed theatre company. 

Freetime
Premiere: 2008　 @Super Deluxe,Tokyo
Stages/Acts: 2/10
Duration: 1hr 20min.
Casts：6（M3/F3）
Writing and Direction : Toshiki Okada

One early summer morning. A woman is sitting at a table in a family restaurant. She spends half an hour, which she considers as her "free time," here almost every morning before going to work. She always has a notebook open in front of her in which she has been seen to write something. Sometimes, she is heard to mumble to herself. One of the waitresses has had a chance to peep into the woman’s notebook.

The woman spends much of her time in the restaurant on recollecting the past or on having fantasies, or so the waitress supposes. The woman cannot get rid of a sinister suspicion that her “free time” may have been provided all along by what has actually been appropriating her time. If it is true that her “free time” is only a convenient tool which has ultimately been serving to constrain her freedom, what should she do?

Destination
(Mokutekichi)
Premiere: 2005 @Komaba Agola Theatre, Tokyo
Time: 2hr 40min.
Stages/Acts: 1/17
Casts: 8 （M6/F2）
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada

Set in a newly developed residential area for families called Kohoku New Town, the story revolves around a young couple. When their community holds a special campaign to find foster parents for abandoned pets, the couple take a fancy to a cute cat. After much consideration, they decide against adopting the cat in the end, for they have just found out that the wife is pregnant. The play sheds light on the mixed feelings of joy and fear that the husband and the wife each experience. The pregnant wife wonders who has taken the cat under his/her wing.
This was the first work to be produced after Okada won the Kishida award.

The End of Toil
(Rouku no Owari)
Premiere: 2005 @ST spot, Yokohama
Time: 2hr 15min.
Stages/Acts: 2/7
Casts: 5 （M3/F2）
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada　

Air-Conditioner
(Cooler)
Premiere: 2004 @Sinjuku Park Tower Hall, Tokyo
Time: 25min.
Stages /Acts: -
Casts: 2 （M1/F1）
Created by Toshiki Okada

2006 Toyota Choreography Award 2005-Final stage-, Tokyo/Setagaya Public Theater

2008 UOVO performing Arts Festival/Paolo Grassi Art Dramatic School, Milan

2009 Japan Sosiety, NewYork
　　　Wexner Center for the Art, Columbus
　　　AI HALL, Hyogo

　　Highly acclaimed work, which was primarily made to take part in "We Love Dance Festival '04" (Kyoto Art Complex 1928 and Shinjuku Park Tower Hall), but turned out to make for the finals at "Toyota Choreography Award 2005" (Setagaya Public Theatre). Created by Toshiki Okada, who was then working mainly in the field of drama, "Air-Conditioner" is a piece of work made through examining dance approaches by pursuing the connection between "body" and "words"; the factors that compose staging. The clearly defined concept of the body demonstrated in the work defied the conventional idea of “choreography”, generating an enthusiastic debate among the audience.
Below is the excerpt; throughout the play, a conversation is made about the temperature setting of an air-conditioner.

F: About the air-conditioner…
M: Yes.
F: It’s a little bit cold you know, maybe too cold... in our office the temperature's always set at 23 degrees and even in strongest power, which I think is crazy if you ask me.
M: Yeah...
M: 'Cause the air-conditioner is really... you know, it's always set at 23 degrees in the strongest wind, and I think this is quite unusual, yeah I do think so... like, itﾕs almost funny, but I guess I myself is kinda person who is cold-natured, you know...
M: Ah, it may be hard for women I think, yes, it may be kinda hard for women.
F: Yeah, no, is it like "you're kinda person who is 'kinda cold-natured'" or I mean, for like women, but is that how you feel or...
M: Yeah.
F: What do you mean by that? But is it like "yeah, I guess I'm aware of that" kinda feeling? I don't know I guess, but...
M: Yeah, I know many women are like that, I feel sorry you know.
F: But yeah, I think thatﾕs the reason, I myself think so anyway.
M: Yeah, I know many women are like that, I feel sorry you know.

Five Days in March
(Sangatsu no Itsukakann)
Premiere: 2004 ＠Shinagawa Sphere Mex, Tokyo
Time: 1hr 20min.
Stages/Acts: 2/10
Casts：７ （M5/F2）
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada

2006 Super Deluxe, Tokyo

2007 Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media StudioB, Yamaguchi
　　　IMS Hall, Fukuoka
　　　KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS2007/Kaaitheater studio's, Brussels
　　　Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, Paris,
　　　Museum of Art, Kochi
　　　Performance of 30th Anniversary of The National Museum of Arts
　　　/ The National Museum of Arts,Osaka/
　　　Exhibisio ROPPONGI CROSSING2007:FUTURE BEATS IN
　　　JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART/ Mori Art Museum, Toyko

2008 esplanade, Singapore,
　　　Salzuburg Festival/ republic, Salzburg,
　　　Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff
　　　Concarino, Hokkaido
　　　Festival d'Automne/ Theatre2Gennevilliers,Paris,
　　　Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
　　　Nam June Paik Art Center,Seul

2009 Southern Theatre at Walker Art Center,Minneapolis
　　　Performance Works, Vancouver
　　　Studio Theater at On the Boards,Seattle
　　　Wexner Center for the Art,Columbus
　　　Japan Society, New York
　　　U. of Missouri St. Louis,St, Louis
　　　Museam of Comtemporary Art, Chicago

2010 HongKong Arts Festival, Hong Kong

The groundbreaking and modern work of chelfitsch Theater Company has made it one of Japan's most talked-about theater companies in recent years. Characterized by deceptively insubstantial narrative, super-colloquial dialogue, and exaggerated fidgeting-turned-choreography, the work perfectly captures the irony and impotence felt by the Generation Y in Japan today. The work overcomes language barriers, garnering the company wide acclaim in premier theater festivals and venues throughout Europe and Asia, including Brussels, Paris, Cardiff, Salzburg, and Singapore. 
Five Days in March is the prestigious Kishida Kunio Drama Award-winning play by Toshiki Okada. In the days before the U.S. declares war on Iraq in March 2003, two Japanese urban hipsters meet at a rock concert and are swept into a one-night stand that turns into five days of continuous sex. Oblivious to the imminent invasion, the slackers obsess over the details of their love affair. The piece unfolds as actors slip in and out of character while casually narrating and playing out scenes. This work takes the Japanese “quiet theater” movement [the naturalistic and analytic theatre that forms the cornerstone of contemporary Japanese theater of the 1990s] to another level with remarkable choreography that is completely disconnected from the content of the hyper-real conversational tone of the dialogue. 

On the Harmful Effects of Marijuana
(Marijuana no Gai ni Tsuite)
Premiere: 2003 @ST spot, Yokohama
Time: 20min.
Stages/Acts: 1/1
Casts：1 （F1）
Written and Directed by Toshiki Okada

2006 Tsuki-no Butai, Okayama

A monologue. Mia, a girl around the age of 20, is waiting for her friend Hiroko by the window seat at a Starbucks Coffee near Yokohama station. Hiroko talks about her elder boyfriend, Kadota. Kadota offered Hiroko marijuana when they were in a hotel one day, and Hiroko was shocked. They hadnﾕt met for a while since. Hiroko is concerning if she continues her relationship with Kadota or not. Listening to her story, Mia watches a guy from the window, doing his part-time job of handing out brochures of cosmetics. The actor now starts to play the role of the guy. The actor complains as the guy. Because heﾕs doing the job absent-mindedly, he hands the brochure to a tall guy by mistake and gets cursed by him. The tall guy was Kadota. Kadota walks to Hiroko in Starbucks with horrible expression on his face. The title comes from Chekhov’s monologue “On The Harmful Effects of Tobacco”.