About the event
Premiere: 2005 @ Kitijoji Theatre, Tokyo
Duration: 85min..
Cast：9
This piece takes place in a prestigious high school. In its schoolyard, there is a huge ginkgo tree about 60 years old. One day, after 10 years since their graduation, eight alumni who were in class 2 of the third grade as well as their home-room teacher back then get together in order to dig out a time capsule they buried under the gingko tree. Though good memories of their old school days come back to their mind, they come to realize that ten years have brought about small gaps between what they remember. The further each character tracks back his/her memories, the bigger their gaps become. The gaps eventually grow unbridgeable. Did certain things really happen? Isn’t it merely that we don’t remember them correctly? What really happened and what didn’t? Finally, the main plot gets derailed as the characters’ contradictory memories lead them to question whether they did really a time-capsule in the first place. They start digging up at the root of the gingko tree as if to find their own memories...
What do we remember? What have we forgotten? In this year that marks the 60th anniversary of World War II, can the Japanese be reminded of what we have left behind, just like the characters dig up their time-capsule to restore their memories? History and our blurred memories lost in the flow of time meet on the stage.
