2024年 09月 15日
2000 Interview 07
-What is the appeal of mazes?
H:
I think somewhere in our hearts we all have a common original experience.
For example, even school buildings become haunted corridors at night.
When you go on to higher education and visit a new school building, you get excited by the unknown structure, don't you?
Large Japanese inns and gigantic temples and shrines have been expanded over and over, with corridors and other structures that make them complex, like mazes. Children are happy when there are connecting corridor.
When you become an adult, you understand the hidden mechanisms, both physically and psychologically, and you can't get lost even if you want to.
On the other hand, when you become an adult, you are in a position where you have to bring lost children home.
Getting lost, forgetting time and place and hiding in safety is now something that only happens in plays, dramas and games.
But the audience shouldn't just leave it to the actors; they should want to experience it as the protagonists themselves.
The theme song for "MIDORI" features the phrase "Yawata no yabushirazu". *1
(*1 八幡不知藪. *The name of a real forest in Japan that has no exit. There is also a haunted house-like freak show modeled after it).
H:
I think somewhere in our hearts we all have a common original experience.
For example, even school buildings become haunted corridors at night.
When you go on to higher education and visit a new school building, you get excited by the unknown structure, don't you?
Large Japanese inns and gigantic temples and shrines have been expanded over and over, with corridors and other structures that make them complex, like mazes. Children are happy when there are connecting corridor.
When you become an adult, you understand the hidden mechanisms, both physically and psychologically, and you can't get lost even if you want to.
On the other hand, when you become an adult, you are in a position where you have to bring lost children home.
Getting lost, forgetting time and place and hiding in safety is now something that only happens in plays, dramas and games.
But the audience shouldn't just leave it to the actors; they should want to experience it as the protagonists themselves.
Modern Japan is a country where, above all else, "darkness" has been taken away by the state, so in Kiryukan I want to bring out the charm of darkness in abundance.
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by kiyubaru2020
| 2024-09-15 12:50
| 劇場思想 Theater thought
