NŌ THEATER

Toshiki Okada

Born in Yokohama in 1973. Playwright / Director / Novelist. He formed the theater company chelfitsch in 1997. Since then he has written and directed all of the company’s productions, practicing a distinctive methodology for creating plays, and has come to be known for his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and unique choreography. In 2005, his play “Five Days in March” won the prestigious 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award. His collection of short stories titled “The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed” was published in February 2007 and awarded the Oe Kenzaburo Prize. In 2013, his first book on theatrology was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha. He has widened the sphere of his activity to art exhibitions as well. Since 2016，he began a commission to direct works in a repertory program at the Munich Kammerspiele, one of the foremost public theaters in Germany, for three consecutive seasons.

chelfitsch web site

MÜNCHNER KAMMERSPIELE

The Münchner Kammerspiele are among the most important stages in the German-speaking context. Since its beginnings, the theatre has been shaped by a strong ensemble, which particularly seeks the dialogue and confrontation with the present. The Münchner Kammerspiele conceive themselves as an aesthetically innovative, contemporary, and cosmopolitan municipal theatre with a socio-political focus.
At the beginning of the season 2015/16, Matthias Lilienthal took over the artistic direction of the Münchner Kammerspiele. A “municipal theatre of a new type”, “the Munich blend”, “club”, “hybrid” – these are some of the slogans that have been used to describe the experimental arrangement that commenced at Maximilianstraße in autumn 2015. The central parameters in this constellation are the strong ensemble composed of some well-known and some new faces and the increasing internationalisation of the theatre, which invites directors such as Philippe Quesne, Rabih Mroué, and Toshiki Okada.

MÜNCHNER KAMMERSPIELE web site