Five Days in March

T0142367332
On 21 March 2003, on the eve of the American and British offensive in Iraq, Japan rejoined the ranks of the armed nations for the first time since 1945. It is against this historical backdrop that the characters in Five Days in March become part of a story of the everyday life of Tokyo adolescents and the so-called hikikomori - "N" generation ("no job, no income"). The colloquial language they speak is utterly real, and betrays a dislocation as their bodies try to wrest meaning from gestures in a world where all certainty seems vague and undefined.

Author

Toshiki Okada

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Archive :: production:T0142367332, play:S1639358439, venue:V827

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Production details

Performed in Japanese with English surtitles. Supported by the Anglo-Japanese Daiwa Foundation and the City of Tokyo.