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Shimogamo-Shasow
"the stacks"
from Kyoto
Shimogamo-Shasow
is the creative team led by playwright/director
Tsuyoshi Tanabe. The team started its activities
in Kyoto in 2004. Its previous works include "that
red point is blood", "traveler",
and "farmer." Shimogamo-Shasow won the
11th Japan Playwrights Association New Comer Prize
for "the red point is blood" in 2005 and
received an honorable mention for "tourist"
at the 14th OMS playwright award in 2007. In 2006,
Tanabe stayed and studied playwriting in Seoul,
Korea for a year with the overseas study program
for artists by the agency for cultural affairs.
In September 2008, Tanabe became the director of
the atelier GEKKEN, a small theater in Kyoto. Since
then Shimogamo-Shasow has been produced by both
Tanabe and the atelier GEKKEN.
The latest works of Tanabe focus on the creation
of a world of an allegorical story, which is a departure
from his previous works describing daily sceneries
and events which could occur from real everyday
relationships. He now aims to depict the human and
the world that they dwell in. In his last play "farmer",
his interest was in the action of writing and words
left by the action.
