THE PLAYBOYS
"Foreigner and I in the Tower of Babel"
written and directed by Yoshio Hori
from Tokyo
Yoshio
Hori founded the Playboys to score big with girls
in 2005 while he was attending J. F. Oberlin University.
Hori writes, directs and produces all shows because
he is, at the moment, the only member of the company.
With the motto of the company: “to offer audience
pathos and ludicrousness of the world only men (might)
understand”, the company produces shows by
all male casts where pathetic men foolishly joke
around and struggle. The reason for the all male
casts is that by providing a place exclusively for
men, Hori aims to depict a special kind of elation
with which men can freely try things that might
be embarrassing or too ridiculous. The up-coming
production explores the universality of men regardless
of languages through a depiction of a Japanese man
and a foreign man who are suddenly forced to live
together.
