Pay Hedda Gabler（Subtitles：English）

Director's note：

"Asked to be treated not as a wife, or a woman or a mother or a daughter but simply as a person, but having been betrayed, Nora left home and gave up everything."Now, through reexamining this text, the work presents the simple yet unanswerable question of the modern "ego". In other words, the question of "what am I?" This performance is an international collaboration with theater artists from Japan and Korea. As well as tackling the problem of the modern "ego", we wanted to verify our perception of European culture, as seen not only from Japan, but also from East Asia.

「政治」というものについて考えたい。政治といっても政府や政治家の話ではなく、人と人とが二人以上集まった場に必ず発生する政治的なふるまいや、言葉の力、特に発語という行為について考えたいと思う。

取り扱うテキストは、太宰治の小説、武者小路実篤のエッセー、日本国憲法前文や、 第一次大戦に従軍して戦死したイギリス詩人の詩、等。

それらを用いながら、人間の主体について、 即ち「私」、「私たち」、「国民」、「国家」、そしてそも「人間」とは何であるか？　について考察し、人間のその発語行為の為される現場を捉え、私たちの生きるこの閉塞した世界を穿ちたい。

Director's note:

Ibsen's era is the era in which the idea of the "inner self" or "ego" of human beings was invented. In other words, this idea of a "modern human perspective" was still valid. While working with Ibsen's "drama" which has such a strong, traditional, and "dramatic" structure, I want to describe what will become of the inner self of the broken down human beings of today.
By putting other characters who are not in the "drama" onstage, and making the play's original characters interact with these "others" at different distances represents the different perspectives of our current era. (As a side note, two actors who are not actual characters in "ghost" are starring in this production.) Through these onstage interactions with "others" be a possible means of rediscovering the essence of Ibsen's "drama", which is now in ruins due to the breaking down of the human ego?
The key to this piece is a sense of distance between actors and the text. If possible, through approaching the text from a variety of spatial ranges, our performance might be very successful.
This work will be an attempt to prove that the real world is broken, and I think this work's goal will be to describe exactly how the real world is broken.

Director's note:

Ibsen's era is the era in which the idea of the "inner self" or "ego" of human beings was invented. In other words, this idea of a "modern human perspective" was still valid. While working with Ibsen's "drama" which has such a strong, traditional, and "dramatic" structure, I want to describe what will become of the inner self of the broken down human beings of today.
By putting other characters who are not in the "drama" onstage, and making the play's original characters interact with these "others" at different distances represents the different perspectives of our current era. (As a side note, two actors who are not actual characters in "ghost" are starring in this production.) Through these onstage interactions with "others" be a possible means of rediscovering the essence of Ibsen's "drama", which is now in ruins due to the breaking down of the human ego?
The key to this piece is a sense of distance between actors and the text. If possible, through approaching the text from a variety of spatial ranges, our performance might be very successful.
This work will be an attempt to prove that the real world is broken, and I think this work's goal will be to describe exactly how the real world is broken.