YUKO SENGA UNIT (1997 TOUR)

Yonaga-hime to Mimio/
THE PRINCESS LONG-NIGHT AND THE BIG ERAS MAN

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yonagahime_p.jpgConceived, directed and designed by Yuko Senga

CAST
Yuko Senga, Makoto Tange, Gyu Yonezawa , Koichiro Nakano, Kyoko Tomosada, Wakako Sato, Natsu Mizuki, Satoru Hirashima
Syunsuke Mizuno(5 strings contrabass)
text Ango Sakaguchi
assistant constructor Toshiya Sekii
music Syunsuke Mizuno
lighting designer Takayuki Tsujino
stagemanager Junichiro Ono/Masaya Hashimoto
costume designer Shizuko Tanaka, Yuko Senga
Mask Hoichi Okamoto
design Naruaki Maeda(design)+Junjiro Hori(photo)
photo Katsu Miyauchi, Kazuo Nakamura
management Karura-sha
assistant producer Makoto Tange
produced by YUKO SENGA OFFICE

Special Thanks to: Weslaw Kotanski, Kaori Yoshida, Hitoshi Tange
Very Special Thanks to: Ango no Kai, Hero Kobayashi, Theatre Group OCT/PASS, Gyu Yonezawa Office, Theatre GEKIIha, Syoji Ishibashi, Shoichi Nara, Takuya Tsukahara, Barbara Slomka, The Striped House Museum of Art
cosponsorship by Niigata prifecture, Niigata city, Sendai city
FIRST NIGHT: 7th JUL. 1997 at TINY ALICE THEATR,TOKYO

KARURA-SHA:
TEL/FAX: (03)5996-3689 (English OK)
Email tange@mcgroup.or.jp(English OK)


　The original story piece by Ango Sakaguchi sets the story in a Japanese mountain village of the middle ages, where cold-hearted Princess Long-night, who conceals her cruelty behind her angelic smile, and Mimio(or the man of big ears), a sculptor of Buddhist images, unfold a strange yet wondrous tale with implications that touch upon the characteristics of the Japanese people, the intrinsic qualities of sufferings that artists/creators inevitably experience, and the relationship between human and nature.
In an attempt for us who live in the modern environment to draw near to the essence of this old tale, we have sought permission of Sakaguchi's family to revive the story as a contemporary theatrical piece incorporating Senga's unique style of expression.
After premiering in Tokyo in July, we will perform the piece in a variety of places from Shinto shrines of mountain villages, open air stages, to 'sake' cellars, and also at Warszawa University in October.

"Should we truly come to love something, we have no choice but to course it, kill it, or to fail foul of it...."---Princess Long-night
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