What is theater released from a human scale?
People, objects, time, space, and language appear in unknown forms…
Playwright/Director: Toshiki Okada
Scenography: Teppei Kaneuji
Cast: Izumi Aoyagi, Mari Ando, Yuri Itabashi, Takuya Harada, Makoto Yazawa, Leon Kou Yonekawa
About
Is it possible to create theater not only for the people watching at one moment in time? Can we use theater to present a world in which people and objects are completely equal, rather than trapped in their usual subservient relationship?
Devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, the city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture is now undergoing immense reconstruction to elevate the area as a countermeasure against future tsunami waves and restore the lifestyles that the residents lost. However, the use of local rocks to raise the land more than ten meters (33 feet) higher than it was before has led to severe damage on surrounding mountains.
Visiting the area in 2017 and witnessing the landscape that had been so rapidly and artificially changed, Toshiki Okada started to conceive a new work in which he would raise doubts about the so-called criteria or measures that humans use. As his collaborator, Okada welcomes Teppei Kaneuji, the artist who has expanded the possibilities of his practice by voraciously incorporating theatrical perspectives into his main methodology of collage. The resulting work also integrates the “EIZO Theater” that chelfitsch has developed since last year, attempting to take yet another approach to language and the body of the actors. What is the landscape that emerges when we deviate from anthropocentrism?
Eraser Mountain is the very latest in chelfitsch’s ongoing endeavors to update theater.
"Eraser Mountain" Europe tour was postponed due to the coronavirus in the spring and autumn of 2020.
This Autumn, it will be finally premiered in Vienna and Paris.
Vienna
Wiener Festwochen
Date|2021.Nov.19.Fri. :20:00~
2021.Nov.20.Sat. :20:00~
2021.Nov.21.Sun. :20:00~
Duration|140 minutes
Venue|Halle G im MuseumsQuartier
Language|Japanese
Subtitles|English, German
Detail|https://www.festwochen.at/en/eraser-mountain
Paris
Festival d’Automne à Paris
Date|2021.Nov.27.Sat. :15:00~
2021.Nov.28.Sun. :15:00~
2021.Nov.29.Mon. :20:00~
2021.Nov.30.Tue. :20:00~
2021.Dec.1.Wed. :20:00~
Duration|140 minutes
Venue|T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers
Language|Japanese
Subtitles|English, French
Detail|https://www.festival-automne.com/en/edition-2021/toshiki-okada-eraser-mountain
Schedule
Credits
Playwright / Director: Toshiki Okada
Scenography: Teppei Kaneuji
Cast: Izumi Aoyagi, Mari Ando, Yuri Itabashi, Takuya Harada, Makoto Yazawa, Leon Kou Yonekawa
Costume: Kyoko Fujitani (FAIFAI)
Lighting Director: Masayoshi Takada (RYU)
Sound Planner: Raku Nakahara (LUFTZUG)
Video Director: Shimpei Yamada(AOZORA)
Technical Director: Koro Suzuki
Stage Manager: Chikage Yuyama
Assistant Director: Nagara Wada
English Translation: Aya Ogawa
Producer: Tamiko Ouki
Associate Producer: Miyuki Tanaka
Production Manager: Megumi Mizuno
Production Assistant: Nanami Endo
(For Autumn Tour)
Stage Manager: Daijiro Kawakami
Stage Manager Assistant: Yuzuko Matsushima
Lighting Operator: Kousuke Ashidano (RYU)
Sound Operator: Masahide Ando, Yukiko Ueshima
Video Operator: Shiori Saito(AOZORA)
Graphic: Teppei Kaneuji
Production Manager: Asami Hori
Project Manager: Yuri Saito
Planning and Production Management by precog co., LTD.
Production: chelfitsch
Co-produced by
[Eraser Mountain] Kyoto Experiment, Wiener Festwochen, Festival d’Automne à Paris; Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt
[Eraser Forest] 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
In co-operation with: CONNELING STUDY/YAMABUKI FACTORY, Steep Slope Studio, Kyoto City University of Arts
Kyoto Art Center Artists-in-Studios program
This project consists of two versions, Eraser Mountain (premiere: October 2019 / Kyoto Experiment) and Eraser Forest (premiere: February 2020 / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs , Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council
In co-operation with: THE SAISON FOUNDATION