Ticket information for North Hall, ROHM Theatre Kyoto(Kyoto Kyoto)

元・精神科医という異色の経歴を持ち、第60回岸田國士戯曲賞を受賞したタニノクロウ率いる庭劇団ペニノ。極限まで磨き上げられた俳優の演技と精密かつ大胆な舞台美術は他の追随を許さず、過去のKYOTO EXPERIMENTで披露された『大きなトランクの中の箱』『地獄谷温泉 無明ノ宿』でも、その独自の世界観を構築し観客を圧倒してきた。

本作では、寺院を模した空間を劇場に建立し、観客はその内部に招き入れられるだけでなく、俳優たちが執り行う儀式的なパフォーマンスに巻き込まれていく。8本の足、3つの心臓、9つの脳を持ち、その不可思議さから宇宙から到来した生命とも呼ばれる蛸が空間と祭事のシンボルに据えられる。経典の反復とヴァリエーション、かき鳴らされる楽器、閉ざされたお堂の中に充満する香りとねばりつく熱気。観客の五感もまた俳優のそれと同様に総動員され、音楽的な快楽に身体を明け渡し、時間感覚を見失ってしまうようなあやうい没入感から逃れるのは容易ではない。リアルとフィクションの境界が溶け去り、トランス状態に達した時、わたしたちはなにを忘却してしまうのか。

A former psychiatrist with an unusual career, the Ninari Gekidan Penino, who has been awarded the 60th Kishida Kunishi Drama Award. The performance of the actor and the precise and bold stage art that has been refined to the limit are unrivaled, and even in the box in the large trunk and the Jigokudani Onsen Mumei no Yado, which were exhibited in the past KYOTO EXPERIMENT, I built my own worldview and overwhelmed the audience.

In this work, a space resembling a temple is erected in a theater, and not only spectators are invited into the interior but also involved in ritual performances performed by actors. It has eight legs, three hearts, and nine brains, and because of its mysterious nature, a whale called life from space is set as a symbol of space and festival. Repetition and variation of the scripture, a squished instrument, a scent that fills the closed hall and a sticky heat. The five senses of the audience are also mobilized as well as those of the actors, and it is not easy to escape from the immersive feeling of giving up the body for musical pleasure and losing sight of the sense of time. When the boundaries between real and fiction melt away and reach trance, what do we forget?