This play depicts the life of famed Japanese stage director Yukio Ninagawa, who passed away on May 12th of 2016 at the age of 80. It was written by playwright and director Takahiro Fujita (leader of the company Mum & Gypsy) at the request of Ninagawa himself based on interviews about his life in theater, beginning with his childhood and then his emergence on Japan’s underground theater scene in the 1960s and his ensuing career in commercial theater. Originally, Ninagawa intended to stage and direct the play himself, but that was never realized before his death. So the play remained unseen until its premiere in 2019 as a reading play for multiple characters directed by Ninagawa’s former directing assistant, Sonsho Inoue.

This play was written in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the theater company Modern Swimmers, for which Ryuta Horai is the resident playwright. The story is about a stay-at-home in his mid-40s named Natsuhiko, his father’s younger brother Junji and his wife Kinuko, who is has been driven to the end of her wits by her husband’s power harassment. The play begins with the meeting of these two who are being driven to their limits.

This play (premiered 2017) is a representative work of Shuntaro Matsubara, who won the 63rd Kishida Drama Award for YAMAYAMA (I WOULD PREFER NOT TO) . This play takes as its subject the book Wasurerareta Nihonjin (The Japanese, Who were Forgotten) by Japanese folklorist Tsuneichi Miyamoto, who walked to every corner of Japan gathering the songs and stories of the common people of rural Japan. The voluminous text by Matsubara was adapted as a stage script by Motoi Miura, the leader of the theater company Chiten, and brought to the stage as a co-production with the Kanagawa Arts Theatre.

This grantmaking fund was created to providing funding for individuals and organizations dedicated to providing aid aimed at helping people coming out of prison after serving their terms to reenter American society positively by offering them suitable educational and employment opportunities. The fund was founded in 2017 with seed money from the well-known philanthropist and art collector, Agnes Gund, by donating the proceeds from the sale of art in her collection and encouraging other art patrons to do the same. As a result, a total of 32 million US dollars in grant money has been distributed to more than 60 post-incarceration aid projects as of 2019.

Based in Budapest, SÍN Cultural Centre is a non-profit production house dedicated to the nurturing and supporting the creative activities of artists in Hungary’s contemporary performing arts. Having three studio facilities, the Centre supports a variety of artists, operates an artist in residence program and is active in an international arts network as it works to raise the level of Hungary’s contemporary performing arts and aims to increase awareness of them in Europe.

Opened in 2014 as an artist-in-residence facility in the Kinosaki hot spring spa town of Toyooka City, Hyogo prefecture, this municipal center of Toyooka City is dedicated primarily to programs for artists in the performing arts. Renovated from the former Kinosaki residence-type conference and study center with its large hall (capacity of up to 1,000), the new Center has performance hall and six studios and residence facilities for up to 22 artists. With artists able to stay for periods of up to three months free of charge, the center now serves as a base for creation of new dance and theater works and creation of international collaborative productions.