照明

Beautiful lights take a lot of work, and time...

椿姫

What would the inside of Verdi's head look like when he wrote La Traviata???
Time floats away like rusty memories of a familiar song.
And the orchestra hasn't even started to play...

Gate

Gingseng chicken soup restaurant

紅葉

Before leaves fall, they change color.
But in Toga it already snowed.
Some pictures from the past...

男の羽根飾

There's not much to add to the beauty of a closing curtain of falling snow made out of paper flakes. Except of course typhoons, visa complications, and the power theatre has to unite people in ways no other art form or human activity is able to.

Upon return, the changing colors of the Toga autumn and the changing winds of things to come...

鼻

Back in Shizuoka. Started rehearsals for Cyrano.
From one mountain to another...

休

Rest is important.
Very.
And scarce.
Very.

高岡

Aluminum sheets, towering ladders, gigantic dresses, beheaded kings, lights, kilometers of wire, cable and tape, white faces, wooden floors, all in a day in the life.

昔

A picture says more than a 1000 words.

Wilderness

they are out there, racoons and snakes and whatnots.

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産業廃棄物

Clean is a very important word.
It takes a lot of work.

the seemingly endless rain

stopped today

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掃除

Almost everyone who had to go back somewhere has done so. The rest are here to stay.
Thankfully, the vampire flies from hell have also left.

しばらく

It has been raining for the last 3 days.
Dyonisus is watching from the wings.

Fire

works

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世界の果て

How far is the edge of the world?
Is the edge at the beginning or the end?
Greetings and salutations, farewells and good-byes.
There is cause to celebrate.

the bridge

a river runs silently underneath.

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All good things must come to an end.
Of course , this is just the beginning...

Nobody

whose house?

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明日

Tomorrow always happens and before you notice it becomes yesterday.

待つ

The audience can not and should not wait for the play to get better. It must be great at the start and even greater when it's over.
Otherwise the audience is just wishing for it to end.

Again

once again a beautiful

evening sky

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忙がしい

The final days are always the busiest.
So easy to lose focus. So difficult to regain it.

The end is near

the road is wide and clear

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無

Nothing will come of nothing.
Failure is not nothing, there is no success without it.

Green

and photogenic

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秋

We had approx. 2 days of true summer weather.
Fall nights are cold.
But the flies seem to have left.

舞台

Any place can be a stage.
Anybody can be an audience.
Why then does the theatre happen so rarely?
The answer is between the audience and what's on the stage.

Sunny and clear.

a beautiful day

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客

The audience was present.
In every sense.

Up

The road uphill is never easy.

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知恵

A few hours away from take off. The night before, the runway was very wet and slippery.

Orange and violet

another unusual find

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呼吸

Breathing on the stage is not like breathing elsewhere.
Though the same can be said about walking, speaking and being.

Behind the new dormitories.

Hmmm...

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飛ぶ

Rehearsals and training are but the runway or launchpad. Performance is flying.

ready for the works

fireworks, that is

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徘徊

Life is but a walking shadow indeed

Time flies

killing flies

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優

"To be tender-minded does not become a sword"

Clear blue

and many many blood-sucking flies.

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寒い

A cold and starry night to a hot sunny day.
Great for lifting cars ,watching young theatre,and rehearsing till the funny single digit hours past midnight.

Poison

One way of eliminating those evil blood-sucking flies.

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宴

"This god delights in feasts"

The rock theater

this stage rocks!

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Thoughts.
Where do they go?
The body remains even when the thought has gone.

At night

The open air theater in the distance

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本心

Under extreme circumstances we get glimpses of one's true heart.

Like a memory

the set will be back soon

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芝居

Acting? Playing? Play acting?
Action.
Not the same.
To distinguish them is wise.
To confuse them is the beginning of the end of theater.

Once more

but not for long

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早い

In less than 90 minutes the stage was cleared.
Talk about extraordinary.

Lakeside rehearsing

A great thing to do

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感覚

Existing on a stage requires a different set of rules.

Flowers

A pretty bunch

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国際的

Within the next few days the number of people here will increase by more than double.
Korea. Italy. Australia.India. Greece.
To name a few.

Studio

A movie projection screen lives inside this building.

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人間

We don't do acting. We do human being.
But not the everyday ordinary human being.
The stage is not ordinary. Nor should it be. Never. Ever.

Camp site

Always busy on the weekend

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