Theater freed from the "human yardstick," updating our vision of the world
space, and language appear in unknown forms...

Through theater, an activity for people, is it possible to bring forth a world in which human beings, things, and the environment surrounding them all exist in a flat relationship?

The city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture incurred immense devastation in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Earthwork construction aimed at raising the level of the ground to prevent damage from tsunami artificially altered the landscape with an amazing rapidity. Toshiki Okada's idea for creating a work that questioned the ""human yardstick"" sprang from a firsthand look at this sight. Eraser Mountain, the resulting play, was prepared in collaboration with the artist Teppei Kaneuji, who continues to expand the domain of sculpture. In space cluttered with countless items, actors build a new relationship with objects, and audiences come to see the world with a new vision.

About one year has passed since the first performance of Eraser Mountain, which debuted in Kyoto in October 2019. The project, which began with theaters, has since been expanded to include various other types of space. Eraser Forest put actors into museums, which are normally space for art objects, and performance with things took another step forward. These achievements were brought into the living space of the actors in Eraser Field, which altered ways of seeing everyday scenes. Eraser Mountain has returned to the theater, and all are waiting to see what sort of landscape it will present. This is the latest edition in the Eraser series.

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Eraser Mountain is basically a mountain of a work we made in our desire to embark on creating a fundamentally new type of theater.
More specifically, by ""fundamentally new,"" I mean that we wanted to shift to, or advance into, a kind of theater that was not the conventional theater as a vessel that is performed for people living in an anthropocentric narrative and handles subjects that are issues to such people. I thought that, going forward, such an attempt would become necessary for human beings, who in the normal view are the only entities that can be an audience for theater.

Toshiki Okada

It has been a perennial agendum of mine to create places that are nowhere, times that are never, people who are not anyone, and things that are not anything. I sense the possibility of doing so in the topos of a theater. The very effort to launch and build these things could be considered to define the Eraser series. Eraser Mountain, the initial edition, may appear to have undergone a metamorphosis in a journey that took it to Forest, Stone, and Field. But in the same way, even the same mountain looks completely different as regards its presence, remoteness, and scale, depending on the viewpoint, season, and weather.

Teppei Kaneuji

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Special website: Release in January

Let's go to Eraser Mountain!
Do you have to see plays to enjoy them? Are plays by chelfitsch only for adults? The answer is "no" to both questions.
For this performance, we have made various preparations to deliver the theatrical experience to all, even families bringing children along, people with disabilities, and other people who have refrained from going to a theater for some reason. Please come and have a new theatrical experience!

-Performances with low viewing-manner hurdles
When viewing performances, one of the basic manners is to sit quietly in your seat. But in some cases, people may regard this as a hurdle to seeing plays etc. They may be worried about their children talking during the show or about having to get up and take a break during the performance because of a disability, for example. To allow such people to see a play without any worries, we have decided to relax the viewing manners in the audience seating a little for this performance.

-Live streaming
The performances beginning at 18:00 on February 13 (Sat.) and 14:00 on February 14 (Sun.) will be distributed online, live.

Performance Schedule
2/11(Thu)17:00~
2/12(Fri)12:00~/17:00~
2/13(Sat)12:00~★/17:00~☆
2/14(Sun)14:00~☆
★Performances with low viewing-manner hurdles
☆Live streaming

Box office opens 1 hour before.
Doors open 20 minutes before.

Duration:2h10min
Performed in Japanese with English and Japanese surtitles

Venue
OWLSPOT Theatre
Rise Arena Building 2F, 4-5-2 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo,170-0013
TEL +(81)3-5391-0751 https://www.owlspot.jp

Ticket
All seats reserved
Adult Advance ¥4,500 / Day ¥4,800
Youth(U29) Advance ¥3,500 / Day ¥3,800
Disability discount ¥3,000

Preschool children may watch the performance (free of charge) while sitting on a parent's lap. If you want a separate seat for your child, you must buy an extra ticket.

Reservation
Peatix https://precog-tickets.peatix.com

* The performance schedule is subject to change. For details, please check the official website, SNS, etc

“Eraser Mountain is watching” (Live Streaming)
“Eraser Mountain is watching” embodies the concept of “Eraser” series by an unique approach. It is another version of “Eraser Mountain” that you cannot experience in the theater.

Schedule
2/13(Sat) 17:00
2/14(Sun) 14:00

Archive period:23:59 the next day of each streaming day
Surtitle:English/Japanese

Ticket
Surtitle with English / Surtitle withJapanese / No surtitle
¥1,800 (All denomination）

Reservation
LAWSON TICKET LIVE STREAMING
https://l-tike.com/play/mevent/?mid=563763

※Archive streaming will be started on “THEATRE for ALL” in Late February.