As if drawn by its lure, she comes to the store in the middle of the night and buys ice cream. For a while, Usami starts griping about the fact that most of store’s needless income loss is due to the Manager’s ineptness at procurement.Ĭustomer 1 (female) enters the store. With the Bach pieces arranged to play as the convenience store’s background music, the play paints a picture of contemporary life with the conversations of the progression of employees and customers that gather at the store.Įnter the convenience store part-time employees Igarashi and Usami. Taking Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier collection as a compositional base, Okada follows the progression of Bach’s prelude and fugue pieces to compose the play of 48 scenes. Toshiki Okada, the playwright known for his depictions of contemporary realities of life using the contemporary colloquial language and modes of physical expression of young people today, turns his attention in this play to the convenience store as a representative symbol of today’s consumption-oriented society. Acts / Scenes 48 scenes Cast 7 (5 male, 2 female) Description Also, in 2007 Okada made his debut as a novelist with the book Watashitachi ni Yurusareta Tokubetsu na Jikan no Owari (The End of the Special Time We Have been allowed), which won the 2nd Oe Kenzaburo Prize.įirst Performance 2014 Performance time 100 min. In 2015, his play God Bless Baseball was performed at the opening of the new “Asian Culture Complex” in Gwangju, South Korea. His work has also won acclaim overseas and this has led to international collaborative works including the work Freetime (2008), Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech (2009), Ground and Floor (2013) and Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich (2014), which together have contributed to overseas performances of his works in some 50 countries. The physical presence and movement Okada brings out in his actors have also been recognized as dance, with his dance work Air Conditioner being chosen as one of the finalists in the Toyota Choreography Award 2005. In 2004, Okada’s play Five Days in March was the winner of the 49th Kishida Drama Award. This produces works that have a slow-moving and noisy physical aspect. In order to create “works with the potential to go further” With the presentation of the work Karera no Kibo ni Mihare in March of 2001, Okada changed to a style using “super real” Japanese language. The name chelfitsch was created to represent a child’s mispronunciation of the English word selfish. In 1997, Okada began theater activities as the one-man unit “chelfitsch” based in Yokohama. Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Business and Commerce. English title Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich* Author Toshiki Okada Authors Profile Born in Yokohama, 1973.
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