Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう
第56回(2012年)
受賞者
3名This 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.