Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう
Edition 56 (2012)
Winners
3 peopleThis play follows people facing parental divorce, job loss, and sudden collapse as they move through loss and searching, using chalk and drawable walls as a theatrical device. With humor and pain, it portrays people taking small steps forward even when trapped.
Within landscapes drawn in chalk, people who have lost something move forward a little.
This play layers memories of family and community around signals for returning home, waiting at the table, and a world scented with salt. Through intimate language and repeated bodily movement, it stages the desire for a place to return to and the time that has been lost.
Signals for returning home and memories of the table call up longing for a lost place.
Based on Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, this contemporary play depicts people struggling at rock bottom while still trying to live forward. Through the relationships among a wealthy recluse, a maid, and an apple farmer, it raises gestures of collapse and renewal.
A contemporary Timon in which people at rock bottom still raise a forward-looking cry.