Matilda Appartement’s stage play “Appartement Series vol.3 “Monument”” will be performed at Izumo Gallery in Waseda, Tokyo, from December 6 (Wed) to 17 (Sun).
Matilda Appartement is a theater company formed at the urging of playwright/director Santa Ikegame. With the theme of “Theater and Life,” the company has been working to bring theater into the daily lives of as many people as possible. The “Apartment Series” is a series of small-group, small-scale productions that offer a peek into the life of someone somewhere.
In this performance’s story, two people who met on a matching app become lovers and start living together in an old apartment where the man has lived for many years as if clinging to something, but one day they receive a notice that the apartment is to be demolished due to deterioration. Written and directed by Santa Ikegame, the double cast includes Miyuki Matsumoto, Futaba Higuchi, Yoichi Fujiki, and Teppay Migikiki in “Red Monument,” and chiaki Sakamoto, Hanako Tomioka, Shiho Naruse, and Kenta Kamase in “Blue Monument”.
