Toshiki Okada

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Toshiki Okada ( Japanese 岡田 利 規 , Okada Toshiki ; born July 13, 1973 in Yokohama , Japan ) is a Japanese writer , playwright and director .

Life

Okada founded the theater group Chelfitsch in 1997 , for which he has since written many award-winning plays. Two of his pieces were published in a book in 2007, which has also been available in German since 2012. With his group Chelfitsch he has also been active internationally, for example in Europe at the Lower Saxony Festival Theaterformen , as well as in Asia and the USA . His piece The Vacuum Cleaner was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2020 .

Prizes and competitions

  • 2005: 49th Kishida Kunio Prize for Five Days in March (2004).
  • 2005: Finalist in the competition for the Toyota Choreography Award with Air-Conditioner / Cooler (2004).
  • 2005: Yokohama Cultural Award .
  • 2006: Competition 2006 with Enjoy New National Theater , Tokyo.
  • 2008: Ōe Kenzaburō Prize for The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed .

Plays

  • 2003: On the Harmful Effects of Marihuana .
  • 2004: Five Days in March .
  • 2004: Air-Conditioner / Cooler .
  • 2005: The End of Toil .
  • 2006: Enjoy .
  • 2008: Freetime .
  • 2009: Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech .
  • 2009: We Are Someone Else Being not Injured
  • 2012: Zero Cost House , its first English-language play premiered with the Pig Iron Theater Company in Philadelphia , United States.
  • 2015: God Bless Baseball .
  • 2017: No Theater . Premiere: February 18, 2017, Münchner Kammerspiele .
  • 2018: No Sex . Premiere: April 14, 2018, Münchner Kammerspiele.
  • 2019: The Vacuum Cleaner . Premiere: December 12th, 2019, Münchner Kammerspiele.

Publications

  • Watashitachi ni Yurusareta Tokubetsu na Jikan no Owari (The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed), 2007.
    • German by Heike Patzschke: The time that remains for us , stories. Verlag S.Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-054017-1 .
  • Enjoy . Samuel French, New York City, USA 2011, ISBN 978-0-573699597 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A new stage for the stage in FAZ from December 17, 2012, page 28
personal data
SURNAME Toshiki, Okada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岡田 利 規 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese storyteller, playwright, stage director and theater group leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Yokohama , Japan