ISHINHA “Twilight“【SUB】

ISHINHA Theater Company is an Osaka-based theater company formed in 1970. Since their piece Shonen-gai (Boys’ town) in 1991, they have established the style of “jan-jan opera“ in which many of the lines are broken down into words and spoken in Osaka dialect with a rhythm of 5 or 7 beats. In pursuit of the ephemerality of open air performance, Ishinha has not only created open-air stages and seats with even accommodation in remote islands, mountains, and “air pocket“ spaces in cities. After the death of its leader,MATSUMOTO Yukichi, in 2016, ISHINHA disbanded after their 2017 performance of “AMAHARA“ in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Twilight was performed in 2015 at a playground surrounded by mountains in Soni village, Nara Prefecture. In the middle of his journey, Wataru gets lost in the mountains of Nara and meets an active kid named Haru. With their love for maps and travel in common, the two become very close, and travel around villages and mountains together. Watching them by th