Watching "VISUAL POETRY" a Poetry Reading / Theater Play

I watched a poetry reading "Visual Poetry" produced, written and directed by Yu Shibuya on April 11th. I had been looking forward to watching it. Because I think Yu Shibuya is one of talented people I have ever met in my life and I like his works very much. His previous theater play, "Three sisters of Kunitomi family", I'm not sure exactly an English title of it, made me moved and cried. That play was really impressed and wonderful. So I had expected the "Visual Poetry" should also be nice. Then, I found when I watched it that my expectation had not betrayed myself. I was surprised such a kind of poetry reading was existing. I had known from twitter or facebook that Yu Shibuya had been saying the Visual Poetry is kinda new style of the poetry reading. Exactly it was not only a poetry reading but also a theater play, namely, they were merged into one fantastic art work. I understood the "Visual Poetry" was as it was, means it was truly the VISUAL poetry. In other words, the world in the poetry were able to be seen visually by actors' acting, not only by reading poetry.

Furthermore, what I thought how amazing was, and I believe everyone thought the same was, a way of usage of music stand. Wow.. How amazing it was. The music stands were used as many items such as table, training machine, scoop, etc. I was really impressed it. There were not any other items except for the music stands on the stage, but actors played as if they were using each items, with reality, changed from the music stands.

The "Visual Poetry" consisted of 8 poems. There were laughing, sadness, excitement, joy, moving, happiness, tragedy, etc. But what I felt by watching all through the poems was kinda gentleness and sensitiveness which I felt covering whole the stories. Thinking of it, Yu Shibuya must be such a person, I believe, with gentleness and good sensitiveness. And it may be the reason I like him and his works.

I was able to watch the wonderful work, which I had never seen before. It was nice experience for me. I really appreciate Yu Shibuya who invited me to watch his latest work, the Visual Poetry.

Thank you. 

Watching "Hotel Miracle" a theater play

On April 11th, I watched a theater play "Hotel Miracle" held at Theater Miracle in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Why I watched it was one of my classmates was playing in one of stories of the theater which consisted of 5 stories. Each story occurs respectively but in a same hotel which we Japanese say it as Love Hotel that is for couples to make love. Every story was fun and interesting for me. For example, one of the stories had a couple who did not know each other. And another one had a murder in a room. Etc, etc. My classmate, she is taking a same class at tori studio where we are learning the acting, was playing in the last story whose title was "Super Animal", as a high school student who is making love with a man for getting money.

We are learning at tori studio that the acting is to act truly (not to play) in given stories. We need to believe the world in which we are acting. To act with believing makes people impressed and moved. In the theater, I felt she was doing so. I felt she was acting much better than any other actors/actresses there. Am I praising her too much? Hahaha, I am not sure though, but I strongly felt during watching her actions and behaviors in the theater that we are learning proper things at proper place.

Ahh.

I've just realized why I praised her so much. Because I was able to see her in JK style, well.. JK means "Joshi Koukousei" in Japanese which is high school student girls in English. I saw her wearing uniform of JK, and also I was able to see her in Chinese dress. Who can say Chinese dress is not sexy? Well, exactly.. yeah, it was the late show started at 25 pm (1 am). And honestly speaking, I was a little bit exited because of the atmosphere of the midnight. Anyway, I believe she is a good actress. Thanks for being able to see good theater play and..