Shonen Oujakan’s stage play “Soreiyu” will be performed at Nanatsudera Kyodo Studio in Nagoya, Aichi, from July 11 (Thu) to 14 (Sun).
Shonen Oujakan was founded in 1982 by Tengai Amano. Based in Nagoya, the group is characterized by its use of video and sound to evoke images, scripts that make extensive use of word play, and geometric dance choreographed by the members.
“Soreiyu” was first performed in 1998 and again in 2003. The story centers on a boy soldier on his way back from Manchuria and his family waiting for him to return home, and develops with various motifs as if they were “two suns.
The play will be written and directed by Tengai Amano. The cast includes Yuchin, Atene Yamamoto, Yukiko, Yumeji Kobayashi,Ari Miyari, Ryo Ikeda, Mizuki, Ru, Paon, Kayo Kondo, Ko Imura, Katsuyuki Iizuka, Miho Imai, Michiko Goto, Pinko Saeki, Sakurako Saotome, Minako Niibe, Daiichidaichi Taguchidaichi, Bi-doro Ponpii, Shunsuke Mori, and Hiroo Meguri.
After the Nagoya performance, the show will be performed at The Suzunari in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo from Thursday, July 25 to Monday, July 29, at THEATRE E9 KYOTO in Kyoto from Friday, August 9 to Sunday, August 11, and onstage at Kochi Prefectural Citizens Cultural Hall Orange Hall in Kochi on Friday, August 23 and Saturday, August 24.

【Tengai Amano’s comment】
I thought about the many newcomers and my rebirth from my own illnesses.
In a sense, we were in a similar situation, and what happens twice happens three times, so I wanted to do it a third time.
I felt that “Soreiyu” was presenting “death and rebirth” like in new clothes,
I thought, “Now is the time to do it”.