The Open couple

19th & 21st performances

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Written by: Dario Fo
Director: Peter Goessner
Translated by: Kazufumi Takada
Kitakyushu / Fukuoka / Osaka / Tokyo

  • 19th Performance Kitakyushu City & Fukuoka City
    Performed twice on January 14th and 15th, 2006 Uterus Hall (Kitakyushu)
    Performances twice on August 2nd and 3rd, 2006 Acros Fukuoka Arena Hall (Osaka)
  • 21st performance Kitakyushu
    Performances twice on August 4th and 5th, 2006 Moji Red Brick Place / Red Brick Comyunity Center (Kitakyushu)
  • 50 years after Brecht’s death Invited work at the German Theater Festival Osaka
    July 21, 2006 Tanimachi Theater (Osaka) Sponsored by Brecht Keller
  • 24th performance Tokyo
    March 25-29, 2009 7 performances Chofu City Sengawa Theater (Chofu City, Tokyo)

CAST: Yoko Matsuo, Makoto Iwai (Kitakyushu, Osaka), Mannroku Nomura (Fukuoka-Kitakyushu), Chukichi Kubo (Tokyo)

STAFF: Stage design / Tsutomu Uchiyama, Lighting / (Kitakyushu / Fukuoka / Osaka) Masumi Sakurai, (Tokyo) Ryuichi Nakagawa, Stage Director / (Kitakyushu / Fukuoka / Osaka) Aramaki Hiromichi, (Tokyo) Akira Murata (Crossover), Sound / Tomo Fujisawa, Producer / (Tokyo) Rin Watanuki

A masterpiece comedy by the Nobel Prize-winning Dario Fo couple will be performed in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Tokyo. In August 2006, Mannroku Nomura, a kyogen master living in Fukuoka, took on the challenge of contemporary comedy as his husband and attracted a lot of attention.