About the event
Premiere: 2006 @ST spot, Yokohama
Duration: 85min..
Cast：11
Mikuni Yanaihara Project’s 3rd piece. After the trial showing at ST spot, the work premiered at Kichijyoji Theatre. For this performance, Yanaihara was nominated for the 52 nd Kishida Drama Award. Yanaihiara’s original direction was seen in her use of a series of nostalgic choruses by the actors accompanied by a guitar, as well as in the cascading words projected on the screen, which flowed down as they were uttered by the actors. The story is about those who cannot fully grow up.
Set in an unnamed place somewhere in a deep forest. The period is also unspecified. It is a world where birds have become extinct. Even since the extinction of birds, people have stopped looking at the sky. Seven scholars received a mission from the govenment to search for the “blue bird,” the last of the species, and let it multiply. The blue bird flies only at those brief moments when the night becomes the morning. The scholars each specializing in mammals, insects, plants and birds walk around the forest during the “blue” hours, expressing their own views about the extinction of the species. Days pass in vain, but one day, they look up at the sky, and…
Nowadays, adult-children are said to suffer from a “blue-bird syndrome.” Yanaihara explores the meaning of their inability to communicate like adults through this performance, which combines elements of drama and dance.
