POLKA BY A YOUNG GIRL AND AN OLD WOMAN Flier image
32nd production
Feb.18(Tue)-23(Sun) 1997
Place:THEATER/TOPS

Cast
Ryosuke NOGI / Yoji OKUMURA
Mitsuyoshi MATSUURA / Sigeki KASHIWA
Keijiro INAKI / Teruhisa ARATANO
Hiroyuki KOSHIMURA


Staff
written & directer : Toshinobu KOJOE
set designer : Hiroshi ISODA
lighting designer : Shigeo SAITO
sound designer : Yasuhiro KUROSAWA
costume designer : Mayumi TOYODA
stage manager : Hitoshi MATSUMOTO
illustrator : Taku FURUKAWA
designer : Kazuyo ITOU
photografer : Yasuyuki TOMIOKA
stage photografer : Yasuyuki TOMIOKA
company manager : Keiko FUJIKAWA / Masashi KISHIMOTO
collaborator : Chigusa WATARI
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A girl in 5th grade in primary school is in love with a boy in the same class.
An old woman lives her single life with lots of memories.
They have one thing in common.
Both the boy, the girl's first love, and a man who lives in the memory of the old woman, have the same name - Shin-ichiro.
So they are always excites to talk about Shin-ichiro.
The girl's Shin-ichiro is a boy who is to grow up and live to the future.
The old woman's Shin-ichiro is an evidence of her past, in which she has lived through all these old days.
Two Shin-ichiro gradually unite to be one, as the girl talks about her dreams, and the old woman talks about her memories.
Then an imaginative, new Shin-ichiro emerges. In the mixture of dreams and memories, unexpected truth about the girl and the old woman are revealed.

Both a young girl and an old woman are acted by actors. and SHINICHIRO is performed by 3 actors. All-male casts present a story of frendship between a young girl and an old woman.


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Theater Company Isseki Nicho
e-mail: isseki@m5.gyao.ne.jp / Masashi KISHIMOTO