About us
K P R is the theater company established in 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.
Their first overseas tour in New York in 2009 successfully obtained good stage reviews and praises from various media, such as The New York Times and Time Out New York.
In 2015, on the overseas tour to Tunisia and France, the works were “A contemporary theater work by the awesome actors (Tuniscope/Tunisia) ”, “This is a real artistic experience (LaProvence/France) ”, “If you see this shocking work, you cannot return to our earth anymore (Theatrorama/France) ”.
The official invitation by Japan Society (New York, NY) in 2019 concluded their second tour to NY in the span of ten years as a grand success by bringing them about a five-star review on top of
five different publications and has been keeping them winning many awards and
further invitations.Their unique spatial composition and staging such as a huge
toilet with 10,000 toilet paper rolls on the stage surrounding by all standing
audiences (in Theater tram in Tokyo) has been receiving reviews and gathering
attention from the art industry all around the world. Their genre-bending view
has been described as "hyper-nonsensical absurdist philosophical comedy
" by director and translator Yoji Aoi, who has been participating them
as a translator and a dramaturg since 2015.
About us
K P R is the theater company established in 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.
Their first overseas tour in New York in 2009 successfully obtained good stage reviews and praises from various media, such as The New York Times and Time Out New York.
In 2015, on the overseas tour to Tunisia and France, the works were “A contemporary theater work by the awesome actors (Tuniscope/Tunisia) ”, “This is a real artistic experience (LaProvence/France) ”, “If you see this shocking work, you cannot return to our earth anymore (Theatrorama/France) ”.
The official invitation by Japan Society (New York, NY) in 2019 concluded their second tour to NY in the span of ten years as a grand success by bringing them about a five-star review on top of five different publications and has been keeping them winning many awards and further invitations.Their unique spatial composition and staging such as a huge toilet with 10,000 toilet paper rolls on the stage surrounding by all standing audiences (in Theater tram in Tokyo) has been receiving reviews and gathering attention from the art industry all around the world. Their genre-bending view has been described as "hyper-nonsensical absurdist philosophical comedy" by director and translator Yoji Aoi, who has been participating them as a translator and a dramaturg since 2015.
Yu MURAI
Leader / Writer & Director
Next Stage
HAMLET|TOILET
Director's Note
Locked in the bathroom, I was frightened by the thundering sound of the door. Do not disturb. Excreting words, scribbling them on the wall, looking to the right, to the left, to the back, to the front, I realized that I was alone at the end, after being swayed by myself. ―This is the world―. Then who knocked on the door of the world? "Is there someone inside?" or "Is there someone outside?" I don't know. When the excreted words lose their way and continue to wander, word after word after word(“Words, words, words”), when they reach the end of the world, what on earth do those words that lead to silence say to me?
Writer & Director
Yu MURAI
Actor
Takuro Takasaki
G.K.Masayuki
Tomoharu Omori/Yuki Matsuo
Staff
Music:TSUTCHIE(SHAKKAZOMBIE)
Dramaturg:Katumi Sasaki
Lighting Plan:Ryuichi Okino
Sound Plan:SING_O_WORLD
Stage Art:Natsuko Takebe
Visual:Takashi Kawasaki
Costume:Akane Sato
Flyer Design:Kazunobu Uozumi
Main Visual:SHIRIAGARIKotobuki
Writer & Director
Yu MURAI
Actor
Takuro Takasaki
G.K.Masayuki
Tomoharu Omori/Yuki Matsuo
Staff
Music:TSUTCHIE(SHAKKAZOMBIE)
Dramaturg:Katumi Sasaki
Lighting Plan:Ryuichi Okino
Sound Plan:SING_O_WORLD
Stage Art:Natsuko Takebe
Visual:Takashi Kawasaki
Costume:Akane Sato
Flyer Design:Kazunobu Uozumi
Main Visual:SHIRIAGARIKotobuki
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@ Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
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in 2024
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Gallery
Repertory
ROMEO and TOILET
The battle between Romeo and Juliet is a lonely task. For the two who believe they are united in love, for their bodies, it is a "fight against the changes that are in front
Ashita no Ma-Joe: Rocky Macbeth
here are three witches waiting there.Macbeth is also there, in the hearts of greedy people.The voices of the witches are the voices inside Macbeth’s heart.
1969:A Space Odyssey?Oddity!
“1969: A Space Odyssey? Oddity!” transfers Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Huis clos” (No Exit) to outer space in the near future and reconstructs an entirely new story.
Member
Review
コンセプチュアルな『マクベス』読解と、小ネタによる笑いがもたらす幅
本作は『マクベス』を自らのフィールドに引き寄せて遊びながらも、実質60分ほどの上演時間であらすじをしっかりと観客に理解させる。 その上で、権力と名誉に突き動かされた人間 […]
Time Out New York
The name of this show is the first hint that this dance-theater piece probably won't be a strictly faithful version of Shakespeare's tragedy-and it isn' […]
The New York Times
At the Fringe: 'Romeo and Toilet' BY ERIK PIEPENBURG AUGUST 27, 2009 1:35 PM The show categories in the Fringe Festival are pretty self-explanatory: drama, […]
「奇跡のうんこ」をひねり出すために
シェイクスピア生誕450年の2014年は、様々な劇場で関連公演が上演された。あうるすぽっとで開催された「シェイクスピアフェスティバル2014」でも、演劇・ダンス・演芸のジャンルか […]
小林賢太郎が惚れ込む「自由」すぎる天才演出家・村井雄の正体
ガタイのいい男たちが汗臭く繰り広げるパフォーマンスで、日本のみならず海外で高い評価を得ている劇団「開幕ペナントレース」をご存知だろうか? 今回、彼らは数多くの若い才能を […]
コンセプチュアルな『マクベス』読解と、小ネタによる笑いがもたらす幅
本作は『マクベス』を自らのフィールドに引き寄せて遊びながらも、実質60分ほどの上演時間であらすじをしっかりと観客に理解させる。 […]
Time Out New York
The name of this show is the first hint that this dance-theater piece probably won't be a strictly faithful version of […]
The New York Times
At the Fringe: 'Romeo and Toilet' BY ERIK PIEPENBURG AUGUST 27, 2009 1:35 PM The show categories in the Fringe Fest […]
「奇跡のうんこ」をひねり出すために
シェイクスピア生誕450年の2014年は、様々な劇場で関連公演が上演された。あうるすぽっとで開催された「シェイクスピアフェスティバル20 […]
小林賢太郎が惚れ込む「自由」すぎる天才演出家・村井雄の正体
ガタイのいい男たちが汗臭く繰り広げるパフォーマンスで、日本のみならず海外で高い評価を得ている劇団「開幕ペナントレース」をご存知 […]
CONTACT US
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E-mail : kpr.japan@gmail.com
Phone : (+81) 80-2091-9895